Having some trouble with XP starting up. The startup is cought in an endless loop. It gets to the black startupscreen from XP (where you see the blue progress bar) and then restarts my PC again, and again, and again,..... Safe mode doesn't boot either. If I boot from win XP CD I CANNOT choose the repair install, only full install with formatting drives. I had this problem before, but found no solution on the forum. Had to format everything and re-install XP to solve. This is not an option now because of too much data on PC now. Can this have anything to do with the volume licence key for XP i'm using? Please help. Thanks!

Hi, Not a volume licensing issue! Have you a Symantec or McAfee BootCD with which you could scan your HDD as the most likely problem is a virus. Or you need to try to recover a restore point from the HDD. More details on MS site or google. :) Density:- Not just a measurement ~ Its a whole way of Life.! ! ! My Forums

I'd just mount the HDD with Knoppix and back it up via ftp, smb, or an external HDD, and then reformat.