From: "Geo." 

Windows 2K or XP?

If 2K then maybe boot a 2K CD and run chkdsk, repair boot files, etc.

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!
>
> --
>        _\/
>       ({at}{at})                      Waldo Kitty, Waldo's Place USA
> __ooO_( )_Ooo_____________________ telnet://bbs.wpusa.dynip.com
> _|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____ http://www.wpusa.dynip.com
> ____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____ ftp://ftp.wpusa.dynip.com
> _|_Eat_SPAM_to_email_me!_YUM!__|_____|_____ wkitty42 -at- alltel.net

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5