my PC is crashed... hard!

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Okay, so this is the second time my PC crashed and I'm really pissed off. I do not know what happen. The last time I remember doing was looking for parts on ebay and H-T. I have a Windows XPprofessional.

Here's what's up... or I should say, "what's down" :o:

I turn the computer on and it doesnt boot up all the way. It gets to the part where it makes the windows boot-up sound and shows the "welcome" with my wallpaper flashes for a few seconds.

Then it would go back on the screen where it says "welcome" where my first name appears. Basically a log-on.... but I've never set any type of password before anywhere in my computer since 4 months ago. I've attempted to enter the password anyway.

After entering the password, it would try shutting down my computer and make that windows shutting down sound but not actually shutdown the computer.

My buddy and I tried accesing the PC through the SAFE MODE. The first time it crashed, we were able to fix it through the SAFE MODE.... but not this time. Still does the same thing.

We also attempted to reload XP but it keeps asking for the administrator password that I, again, never set.

We were able to reload XP and enable command prompt. We still could not figure out what's up.....

I dont know what else to do. Is there any other way to fix this problem? My buddy looked around online and found out a few people have recently came across the same situation. Another guy at work has the same problem.

Will I be able to extract file from the primary hard drive through "my documents" and transfer file using command prompt? I just want to save a few items from the primary and go ahead reformat the whole hard drive and start from scratch again.


What do you think?