I have a Dell Inspiron 1000, it runs windows XP. I was using it the other day and mozilla firefox ran a update, once the update was finished a box popped up saying that it was shutting down firefox and would reopen it. I clicked ‘Ok’ and it never reopened. I tried clicking on the icon but nothing happened, so i held my start button down to turn off my laptop. I then hit the start button again to turn it on and it starts to boot up gets to the windows xp loading screen and stops and wont go any further. Does anyone know how to fix this????
Also none of my files are backed-up, and i dont want to lose them, currently I am able to boot my computer up by using a linspire disk and running off the disk, and i can see all of my files but i can not transfer them to a USB drive or a external hard drive because my computer is not recognizing them, any ideas on how to fix that?
The only problem with using linspire to transfer data to a flash drive is the fact that the flash drive isnt recognized by my computer.
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http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
http://labmice.techtarget.com/windowsxp/TroubleshootingXP/startup.htm
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1.- Run XP on the “safe mode”. To do that, you usually press F8 when it is about to start (press it several times if you want, to be sure). In safe mode you will be able to troubleshoot your computer; probably to back up your files. If you have system restore active, then (after backing up your files) you may be able to do a system restore to a previous state of your computer (when it was able to start).
2.- Another way to back up your files: if you can setup your computer to boot from the CD or DVD rom, then you could use a Linux live CD (for instance, Ubuntu Linux) to boot and try to copy your files to an usb drive.
Then, having a safe backup of your files, you can try to fix your computer without the risk of losing your valuable data.
More information on system restore:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx
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