From: waldo kitty 

"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???

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> Geo.
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> "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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