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    Need Help in Repairing windows XP

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by yogi1984, Nov 5, 2008.

  1. yogi1984

    yogi1984 Newbie

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    Hello,

    I am having an Intel based Toshiba Satellite laptop with windows XP home edition. I was facing lots of problems after I SP3 got installed through automatic update. I updated some of my drivers through Toshiba website and problem solved for few days. But again my system has started freezing so I though to remove SP3 and reinstall it. I was able to remove SP3 by add remove in SAFE mode. My problems werent solved as windows was not letting me update through their website so I tried their system restore utility. After this restore the whole laptop is a mess as I am not able to log on through any mode and system just keeps rebooting itself.

    I thought to repair windows through CD and luckily I got winxp home edition cd from one of my friend. I have my own xp genuine key. Now the problem is when I reboot through CD it goes well till the screen appears for choosing between different options to repair or reinstall or escape.. and just after this screen the laptop restarts itself again..

    and this is going on and on.. I would like to have some expert advice on this.. what to do now.. I dont want to lose my data.. Please suggest me some ways to repair windows xp on my laptop or to solve the issue of reboot while its installing through xp cd..

    I would be really grateful to you..

    Thanks
     
    yogi1984, Nov 5, 2008
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  2. chen

    chen Notebook Deity

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    The simplest way to solve this problem is format the partition and reinstall, although this would wipe out all the data......next time you should create a separate partition like Drive D for saving all your documents, installers.....so when you do a format and reinstall on Drive C.....all your data wont be wiped out......is there any way you can go in and back up ur stuff? Backing them up would be the first thing I will try to do.
     
    chen, Nov 5, 2008
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