problem - trying to fix a friends comp and it wouldn't start in safe mode (just restart on itself after about 5 seconds into the safe mode load). It started in normal mode just fine but I wanted to go into safe mode to run a full system scan. Stupidly I changed the boot.ini in msconfig to start in safe mode every time. Now when I try and start in normal mode it automatically tries to start in safe mode and restarts itself again... /facepalm.
solution? - I did some google'ing and one suggestion was to boot of the XP disc and run repair. Fine and all but I don't have the XP disc. I tried to torrent a copy (mods: I feel like this is okay since I already have XP just not the disc and all I'm doing with it is trying to repair, not steal a copy of the OS) but when I try to boot from the disc it says "checking hardware config" or something like that then just goes endlessly blank, no restarting or anything, just hangs.
Any help at all? I really want to be able to get back into windows. If I can find a legit copy of the XP disc I think I would be okay but I can't. Any useful ISO's I can use?
solution? - I did some google'ing and one suggestion was to boot of the XP disc and run repair. Fine and all but I don't have the XP disc. I tried to torrent a copy (mods: I feel like this is okay since I already have XP just not the disc and all I'm doing with it is trying to repair, not steal a copy of the OS) but when I try to boot from the disc it says "checking hardware config" or something like that then just goes endlessly blank, no restarting or anything, just hangs.
Any help at all? I really want to be able to get back into windows. If I can find a legit copy of the XP disc I think I would be okay but I can't. Any useful ISO's I can use?
