my XP system will not reboot to operational mode. machine reboots over and over. I do not have another XP system. I do have WIN 98 ( i know that won't work) and WINDOWS 7 systems. Can I connect my xp drive into windows 7 machine and run chkdsk on the xp drive. If chkdsk runs fine can i use windows 7 to restore the xp drive to a dirrent date.

Sure can, you just can't use Win 98 because it only know FAT 32 and will not see the NTFS on your XP drive. Windows 7 on the other hand will have no problem.

have you tried safe mode? larry

All available choices (safe, safe with command prompt, restart normal, last known config) all do the same thing. it just keeps rebooting. PC was purchased and no CD XP came with it. I tried to download windows xp sp3 from microsoft and then boot off of it to no avail. friend may have xp cd to try and boot around it. last thing done was a windows security update. i am unable to confirm that though.

Any one still out there. I have a xp sp2 disk now but i am getting no where fast. i can get my system up in safe mode but can do nothing else. How do i get ride of the last updates that were done on my system. I can't even go into CHDIR. add/remove programs won't let me remove because windows installer could not be accessed. pls help.

You do it through Add and Remove Programs on your Control Panel. Make sure to check the check box that say Show Updates. Sort the programs by date and get rid of the newest ones. They will be at the bottom.

I tried that. I get an error with windows installer. can't delete the files.