Hello all!

I am trying to help a friend whose Acer computer has a problem booting up. Whenever he PRESSES the power button, the acer splash screen appears, and then the option of choosing what mode of windows screen appears. No matter which option you choose (safe mode, last known good configuration etc.), the windows loading screen where a blue bar moves from left to right appears for a few seconds and then a blue screen comes saying something about the hardware or hard disk or something like that and then it immediately DISAPPEARS and the computer restarts. Both of us don't have the Windows XP cd...and he hasn't made any recovery discs. The loss of data is not that big an issue with him.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?Hit the pause/break button and write down the entire BSOD message including the mumbo-jumbo and post it here...You may also try this...

If you don't have Windows CD...
Download Windows Recovery Console: http://www.thecomputerparamedic.com/files/rc.iso
Download, and install free Imgburn: http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
Using Imgburn, burn rc.iso to a CD.
Boot to the CD...let it finish loading.
When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
Then, follow the steps from here: http://icrontic.com/articles/repair_windows_xp, starting below this picture on page 1:
hye all..
can anybody help me...
now i've a problem that cause i cant FORMAT my hardisk...
can anyone tell me how to solve its?Really sorry for replying back this late...but if we follow Broni's advice, will we have to do anything else...like enter the windows product key (its a perfectly LEGAL copy...but i am telling him all this by the phone...so i want to KEEP it as simple as possible)...and also...is there any easier way to do this recovery thing? cause the link which Broni gave is a bit complicated.

thanks for all ur help so far! All your question are answered in linked article.Hello again!

Okay..after going through the article again i found that its not that bad...so i'll let you know what happened when we try the things suggested as soon as possible.

Thanks for ur help and support so far! We'll be here.Hello yet again! 

Well, we tried the instructions in the article given, but it didn't seem to work...so my friend told that he would give the laptop to his dad's place of work and hopefully the people over there would sort this out...(maybe we didn't do the instructions right?...) Anyway... I hope I haven't wasted your time and server space (lol)..but I think there isn't any alternative..is there?

Well...Until another problem starts!

Thanks for your help so far! =)
You're welcome No problem.