Here's my situation. XP is not booting for me.
When I go to startup all I get after the XP load screen (with blue bar) is a black screen with a white cursor. I get no GUI at all. This happens whenever I try safe mode or "last known configuration."
This happened out of the blue. The only unusual thing I had done was dismantle my PC and all its peripherals to move it to a new computer desk last night.
Some google searches tell me there seem to be few (if any) straight up fixes for the problem. I would prefer to do a clean install of XP anyway.
My question is: how can I copy date files (jpgs, mp3s, docs, etc) from the HDD onto a flashdrive? I would also love to get my e-mails backed up from Outlook Express.
I figure I could always install XP onto a new HDD and then hook up the current one as a slave and retrieve files that way...but I'd rather avoid the expense of a new HDD and just format and start fresh on the current HDD.
Ideas?
When I go to startup all I get after the XP load screen (with blue bar) is a black screen with a white cursor. I get no GUI at all. This happens whenever I try safe mode or "last known configuration."
This happened out of the blue. The only unusual thing I had done was dismantle my PC and all its peripherals to move it to a new computer desk last night.
Some google searches tell me there seem to be few (if any) straight up fixes for the problem. I would prefer to do a clean install of XP anyway.
My question is: how can I copy date files (jpgs, mp3s, docs, etc) from the HDD onto a flashdrive? I would also love to get my e-mails backed up from Outlook Express.
I figure I could always install XP onto a new HDD and then hook up the current one as a slave and retrieve files that way...but I'd rather avoid the expense of a new HDD and just format and start fresh on the current HDD.
Ideas?
