Malware hit; in trying to get into safe mode and not being able to, edited BOOT.INI ... now in endless loop.

This was stupid of me. I listened to advice forgetting I was on WinXP and
not Win98SE (7 years on 98SE, 13 months on XP at home ... go figure). My
computer looped endlessly and wouldn't go into safe mode no matter what I
tried. The advice was to go into the boot.ini tab in msconfig and select
SAFE MODE and NETWORKING so that it would go in. No deal. No I can't get
back into Windows. And now no DOS, of course, to potentially go back in and
edit the INI manually! <sigh>

Was wondering if there was anything I could do to fix the loop issue? I
found out yesterday that a restore would probably want to wipe my entire
computer, forget the partitions (why the hell do I have them, then, I'd like
to know??), so just wanting to know if there was a way to make it so that I
could get back into WinXP?

I'me at work only today for the full day. The person I'm replacing will go
back on training only until next Monday, so hoping to get enough research
done today to fix this because I'll be without easy computer access till
then. Once I can get back to Windows, I can continue on with the issue that
needed safe mode to begin with. But that's another worry that I'll deal
with after the more important issue of getting back in.

Thank you.


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