Not Booting

Hi SeaShells. Try following these steps:

1. When the computer boots up after the BIOS shows try pressing F8 on the keyboard which will bring up the advanced boot options menu. From that menu select Last Known Good Configuration and press enter.
2. If that doesn't work go back into the advanced boot options and select Safe Mode.
3. If that still doesn't get the computer to startup then boot from a Windows XP CD.
4. When you boot from the CD do you see an option that says Press R to boot into the recovery console? If you see that option press R.
5. Once you boot into the recovery console it will ask you which Windows installation you wish to log into.
6. Press 1 and hit enter.
7. Next type the administrator password. If you don't have a password then leave it blank otherwise type it in and hit enter.
8. Next type the following commands and hit enter after each one.

fixboot
fixmbr
chkdsk /r

You may be asked to confirm an action after typing in the commands. Type Y to confirm the action if you are asked. After check disk has finished checking your harddrive type exit to quit setup. Hopefully the computer will now boot.
9. If the system still doesn't boot then power off the machine, open the case up and take out the harddrive. If you have another computer hook up the harddrive as a slave drive where you can copy all the important data off the slaved drive onto another harddrive.
10. If you would rather not hook up the harddrive as a slave drive then try Performing a Repair Installation of Windows XP.