From: "Geo." 

I don't know about a worm, but if you can find an XP CD, you can boot that
and tell it to do a repair.

Geo.

"waldo kitty"  wrote in message
news:Xns951BD7E974D40me42{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo."  wrote in news:40e6f222$1{at}w3.nls.net:
>
> > Windows 2K or XP?
>
> see subject ;)  XPH == XP Home OB-)
>
> > If 2K then maybe boot a 2K CD and run chkdsk, repair boot files, etc.
>
> would love to do that but none of the boot options give any pleasure...
> they all result in the same thing... safe mode, no luck... last known
> working config, no luck...
>
> i seem to recall a worm or virus that would cause similar symptoms...
> sasser or similar???
>
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "waldo kitty"  wrote in message
> > news:Xns951AE65084E3Eme42{at}216.144.1.254...
> >>
> >> a friend gave me his XPH laptop to (try to) fix... they had taken it
> >> to a couple of other places and each had told them that their HD had
> >> crapped out... neither of us believe this since the machine will
> >> boot but seems to be in a reboot loop... something about can access
> >> a hive, dumping virtual memory and rebooting... i seem to recall a
> >> worm that would/could cause this type of behavoir...
> >>
> >> its a HP laptop and there's (currently) no CD or other restore
> >> disk... possibly something on a hidden partition or something... i'm
> >> considering a DOS boot disk with NTFS driver to access the drive to
> >> gather data that is not wanted to be lost... mainly pictures of
> >> family and geneology stuff...
> >>
> >> any advice is greatly appreciated!
> >>
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