Xp Home Ed won't start

[Andrew]

ok i tried to uninstall a service pack(cant remember which
one) and when windows attemped to reboot it got past the
flash screen (the one with teh green load bar at the
bottom) and then "click" it flashes a quick blue screen
(quick enough so i cant read what it says) and reboots
from the beginning ... click and over again and click over
again.
I tried starting in safemode.. and all the F8 options, i
tried to use the recovery console changing the default,
software, system, sam etc. (and deleting the
undo_guimode.txt beforehand) but as always click and
reboot...
I'm not liking my options right now... i could wipe and
restart anew ..but i need some documents on the hardrive.
dont care about software etc just the documents...

any suggestions...

 

[null]

ok i tried to uninstall a service pack(cant remember which
one) and when windows attemped to reboot it got past the
flash screen (the one with teh green load bar at the
bottom) and then "click" it flashes a quick blue screen
(quick enough so i cant read what it says) and reboots
from the beginning ... click and over again and click over
again.
I tried starting in safemode.. and all the F8 options, i
tried to use the recovery console changing the default,
software, system, sam etc. (and deleting the
undo_guimode.txt beforehand) but as always click and
reboot...
I'm not liking my options right now... i could wipe and
restart anew ..but i need some documents on the hardrive.
dont care about software etc just the documents...

any suggestions...

If you need the documents on the hard drive, you can boot to a Win98
startup disk (if the partition is FAT32) and copy the documents to a floppy.

If the partition is NTFS, do a google search for NTFSDOS and download
that to a floppy and you'll be able to see the NTFS partition and copy
documents from that to the floppy.

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-the small one

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Proceed at your own risk, and perform system and data backups prior to
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[Harry Ohrn]

Before going any further I would make a full system backup using an
application like Norton Ghost or Drive Image. If you don't have one you can
use the fully functional demo of Image ftp://terabyteunlimited.com/image.zip
to create an image of the drive directly to CD-R if you have a writer
installed or you can create an image to a second hard drive if you have one.
Later when you have your system running correctly you can extract the
individual files you need out of the image. Ghost or Drive Image have built
in apps which will enable you to do this. The Image program uses a free
add-on app called TBIView to open image files so you can extract individual
files http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html