RE: XP won't start

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Hi Alexx, As i posted right after you yesterday, I experienced the same
problem with my relatively new and incident free laptop. I took it to the
professionals today and found out that somehow, suddenly the platform ad been
compromised and is fried...right out of the blue
.. all of my data is gone. how is yours?
"Alexx" wrote:

My XP was working fine and all of a sudden when I turned on my computer I now
get a message stating that Windows did not start successfully and prompting
me to chosse one of the following: safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe
mode with command prompt, last known good configruation or start windows
normally. I have tried all of these and just keep getting looped back to the
same message. Can anyone help me? Thanks. Alexx
.

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