Page 1 of HELP - Can`t boot up normally or in SAFE MODE

I went out for a couple of hours the other and when i came back my PC was on the logon screen. When i clicked to log on, i got a brief look at my desktop background before it restarted itself. This is happening every time i try to log on and it`s also happening when i try to boot into safe mode. As far as i know the PC was running fine before i went out. I don`t have an OS recovery disc and as far as i know i didn`t get one with the machine.

I`m running XP Home with SP2

Can anyone help please, i`m having to use my mothers laptop at the minute.

Any help much appreciated

Regards
Bryan

Hi

Had a similar problem, found out that it was temporary files let on the hard disk after I tried upgrading IE.

If you have access to another system take the hard drive out of the faulty machine, change it to a slave on another machine to have access to it.

Access the faulty drive using explorer, search the drive for *.tmp files, any that begin with a tilde mark (~) delete it. You can also try running the disk cleanup utility supplied by MS under the Accessories tab.

When you have completed the above remove the drive, change it back to a master drive and place it back into your machine and switch on.

Please note that this did fix my problem, but if yours` is a different issue this may not work, but on the other hand it will certainly not cause any damage.