The safest thing to do would be to pull the hard drive out and slave it into another machine, then use that system to try and retrieve the data. You might also try booting the WinXP CD and repairing the existing installation.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Associate Expert - Windows XP
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Please reply only to newsgroup...
"kathy" <mkc...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:444d01c1e834$bcf1ef40$9ee62ecf@tkmsftngxa05...