how did you fixes the asms problem.cause thats my problem now while installing window xp please help. here is my e-mail junster1@yahoo.com

on my dell its control + f11

and you are allowed to make 1 recovery cd (full xp sp2 cd actually) using the dell utility (dont think this exists in post 2005 models)

hey my windows xp professional wont load!! i have a IBM lenovo laptop i have no Cd with it, was already installed when i bought it!! Ive tried everything possible to fix this problem it was working fine 2days ago no problems, now it starts to load windows and then goes to a black screen?? any help with this would be grateful thanks

The Power went out at my house right as soon as I turned my computer on it is a Compaq with a 2 GHz AMD Althon something or another processor....but any way... it goes as far as "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent harware or software change might have caused this.

Start in safe mode.
Safe mode with networking.
Safe mode with command prompt.
Last known good configuration setting (most recent setting that worked). Start Windows normally." and none of them work.... i havent deleted any thing or downloaded any thing on this computer since i got it and i dont have the windows installation disc either.... is there any way i could fix this problem with a windows update disc ? or is there another alturnitve?

i am having the same error as jeff had. since my pc has winxp with sp3, i am worried that when i put my xp sp1 disk in it will wipe all my files. what can i do about this?