Windows XP will not load on our computer a message APPEARS which tells us to start in safe mode or various other safe mode options,. We have tried them all to no avail. Any ideas we would be very welcome thanks.I assume you have your XP installation disk. Put it in the CD drive and the computer should be able to boot to the CD, no drivers are required to do this.

You may have to change your system bios setting to allow it to boot to the CD first.

When the setup program loads, choose Install , not repair. The first thing the installer will do is look for an existing installation when it finds your existing one, it will ask if you want to repair or do a new install. At this point choose to Repair.

Normally this works ok and you will end up with a functioning system with all your applications still installed.so your saying repair wont mess with the registry and i wont have to reinstall all my programs... sorry i just jumped into this thread like this... but that would help me out alot... CAUSE that is my main concern with my computer right now is that my computer had start up problems and i chose to repair windows... and then it said that maintanance had been completed and it resarted and said it was installing windows... but it wont mess with my programs correctComplete Instructions Here

Read thru it and become familiar with the process before beginning...especially the Warnings. Then print out a copy for reference...

You NEED an XP CD for this ...an OEM manuf. restore CD will not work.

If you do everything correctly your programs and data will be intact.Thanks for the info. Managed to find the xp disc, everything is working now except sound, we don't have a seperate disc for the sound driver, only a restore disc, there does'nt seem to be anything on this disc to restore only the sound. The computer is a Medion. DLoad and install and run Everest Home...this will tell you exactly what COMPONENTS you have...cut and paste the sound info here and we'll help track down the correct drivers...