Vance 0 Newbie Poster

I have never posted before, but I haven't found an answer.

I am running XP Pro on my work laptops:
-P III
-800MHz
-256 MB Ram

On one laptop windows won't boot. I was having pci.sys and setupdd.sys errors when booting from the XP cd, but I extracted the pci.sys file and reseated the loose Ram. The computer still will not load windows. It boots, but crashes during the XP boot screen. I tried Safe Mode, Last Good Config, and Normal, no difference.

Because it is a work computer, I need to salvage the information on the hard drive.

Let me know if this is already posted somewhere, or if I should post it elsewhere.

Thanks!