Assitance please...

[Squally Leonharty]

www.bootdisk.com

There you can boot DOS with NTFS support from a bootdisk (you can download the bootdata from the site) and copy files.

As for the sudden restart after a BSOD screen, you can disable it within Windows. Go to System Properties, then Advanced, then Startup and Recovery Settings. From there untick "Automatically Restart"

Next time it happens, you can provide me with the STOP error (or reason at the top of the screen, such as IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, or anything else. In this case it means drivers/hardware are conflicting each other) that it gives to you.

Nonetheless, it's useless at the moment, since you can't get into XP. So, just boot from DOS using a floppy with the downloaded bootdata from www.bootdisk.com and backup data. Then reinstall XP.

<b>Edit:</b>

Oh... And you might want to try this:

Since it's an AGP error, it's probably something to do with your graphics card. If you have a PCI graphics card, use that, remove the AGP card and boot into XP. It'll boot fine, because there's no AGP, so it has no reason to lock up again. From there disable the "Automatically Restart" option and then download the latest drivers for your card. If you have nVIDIA, go here: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows2000 and download the Detonator drivers, but don't install them yet. Remove the AGP device (thus the graphics card) from Device Manager and reboot. However, don't do a normal reboot. Instead, do a manual shutdown. Switch the graphics card from PCI to AGP and boot again. It'll detect the card again and install the drivers for it. Then install the Detonator drivers (or other drivers if you have another card than nVIDIA, just make sure they're made for XP and are WHQL certified. WHQL isn't necessary, but it should be preferable). Then reboot again and see if it's fine now.

Otherwise tell me what you get if you have managed to disable the "Automatically Restart" option. I'll look around at Microsoft's site and an site dedicated to XP.