Still can't get out the Mac mind set. I will give this a try if I still can't
get it working using the other methods mentioned here ;o)

Dave

I come from an Apple Mac environment where crashes seemed to happen to me
all of the time. I rarely have to hurl verbal abuse at my PC these days ;o)

"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

>
> "DaveP72" <DaveP72@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B2518DD1-A968-4B9D-A66E-7043C954B2B4@microsoft.com...
> > My computer has unexpectedly crashed after installing a software CD that
> > accompanied a piece of CCTV hardware. The software installed fine and I
> > have
> > been using the program fine until I needed to restart after my copy of
> > Microsoft Outlook crashed. Now the computer is stuck in a start up loop!
> >
> > As as soon as I get to the Windows XP Home screen the computer restarts
> > automatically and returns to the plain black screen.
> >
> > I have tried each one of the options Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking,
> > Start Windows Normally, Last Known Good...all of which makes no
> > difference.
> >
> > I have the original Windows XP Pro installation CD-ROM disc.
> >
> > Is it possible to start up from my installation disc?
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Dave
>
> A manual System Restore is probably your best bet:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545. If you have a suitable boot CD (e.g.
> a Bart PE boot CD) then you can proably shorten the process by manually
> restoring one of the System Restore "System" hives to the
> c:\windows\system32\config folder. - On a humorous note: You write "My
> computer has unexpectedly crashed . . .". Do you sometimes expect your
> computer to crash? :-)
>
>
>