From: John Cuccia 

If you can, install a 2nd instance of the OS and boot to it.  You should
then be able to copy data.  After that, wipe. reinstall the OS, and restore
the data.

On 2 Jul 2004 22:32:20 -0400, waldo kitty  wrote:

>
>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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