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At this point my dad and I have given up. We've tried booting from the XP CD and a bunch of other options people have suggested, but we haven't gotten anywhere. He ended up taking the tower into work...

CurlyBen - System Restore was turned off for two weeks (I turned it off for some reason and then forgot to turn it back on unfortunately) and there aren't any restore points, so that isn't an option...

I was hoping that I'd be able to do that with the original OS disc. If I chose to repair, would I lose data? If the CD-ROM drive even bothered to cooperate, that is...

Also, someone at another...

It's very possible that the laptop I had installed SP2 on had some other issues; I had used it on my college's network for three years, and the network itself was crawling with viruses and other...

Sorry for the double post. My dad's been going through the troubleshooting manual and he tried to load the Application Recovery CD for something or the other, but the computer won't even load that....

I'm 99.9% sure that I didn't have automatic install enabled (the other .1% goes to the possibility that someone other than me messed with the auto update settings, but I'm almost sure that that...

I'm currently posting from my own laptop, but my family's main computer isn't doing so well. Everything was working fine last night, no problems with shut down or anything else for that matter, but...