[monkeyshine]

XP has a way to roll back changes. I've used it once but can't remember exactly how it works. Look it up online or in the manual. I think if you can boot from the XP CD, you might be able to roll back to a date before you installed that crappy software, and be able to retrieve your data. Good luck. Otherwise, I think you should take the drive to another machine, and back all the files onto CD rom. Not sure if your files are really lost, or if just the OS is ruined.

Check to make sure also that there is no floppy in the disk drive, or no CD in the CD drive. Your BIOS may be set to boot from floppy/CD first, in which case it won't find any OS.

[WaterDragon]

I can go to START, then to HELP, and the window that comes up has a SYSTEM RESTORE. I use that to take the puter back to what it was before the crash. Once, a crash lost my passwod for going online, and I got it back this way.

But, first the puter would have to be able to pull up Windows.