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your last , best hope would be the recovery CD.

Recovery disks usually re-format your hard drive. That means, they wipe it clean, and away goes data, down the drain.

As Viking2002 said...it's your last hope to reuse your PC.

Still waiting for you to gather the above asked for information..."beeps", "motherboard model", etc.

Using a "live" CD, from any Linux distribution is better than using a recovery cd, in that, you will be able to copy off your data.
You could also choose to install Linux by resizing yur partition, and using the available space, without losing your data.
You could also do a "side by side" installation of XP, without losing your data.

Good luck!

One beep and then to the windows xp screen
the scan screen
then to the inconvenience screen
then looping

from post 19 am typing as fast as I can.

46 posted on 03/02/2008 4:25:53 PM PST by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)

"Recovery disks usually re-format your hard drive."

That's not true. The recovery disk boots the machine in command mode so that the diagnostics can be run.

140 posted on 03/02/2008 6:40:49 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)