no - I don't have the cdrom. It's a dell laptop. I asked for the cd when I bought it. They sent me one - but I tried to use it one other time and it says it is the wrong cd! I can try it again to see what it does this time though - I'll have to find it! I've been moving files now in safe mode over to my external hard drive. will what you say actually boot it to the regular window? Thanks! I have the stop error numbers - and looked them up - but got overwhelmed! 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x804edfda, 0xf7A16608, 0x00000000) the first one is about the only one that gave me information. the blue screen also says something about bios and driver updates or changing video adapters. This is all 'greek' to me! Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: Bran x86 To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:30 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: more immediate problem! laptop - blue screen - windows update Do you have the XP CDROM? If so , boot laptop up off XP CDROM as if you were going to install xp again, then at the screen were it says "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console. Choose your windows that's broken put in administrator password if any. Then at the prompt type CHKDSK /P once that has finished type FIXBOOT after that type EXIT and you should be able to grab all of your data before the drive dies again. Sounds like a harddrive about to crash. On 6/14/07, Cris <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > update - > still a blue screen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > I moved files and I went in safe mode to system restore > and went back to yesterday when everything was fine. > it rebooted to the blue screen again. > ugh..... : ( > cris > -- --branx86@xxxxxxxxx Solution Provider (I will find you a answer!) -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ __________ NOD32 2329 (20070614) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________ NOD32 2329 (20070614) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/