Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate your taking the time to help out a stranger with their troubles :)
Where would I get an "XP Disk"? WIndows came prepackaged, and I just have the "System Recovery" CD which isn't working at this point. It doesn't let me "install", just "recover"...
"Boot to Disk", what disk?The Sony System Recovery disk? It freezes at 70% and gives an error message like I said. I don't have any other "disk"s, Windows came pre-installed on the computer.
"Do not repair from boot screen", I haven't seen that option, you mean without any CD in, after the BIOS...
(Sony Vaio PC, Windows XP Home)
I came home yesterday and started my computer - the BIOS loaded and then froze, so I force-restarted the computer. The BIOS loaded again, and this time followed with the screen "The computer was not properly shut down, choose whether to load into Safe Mode, Last...