waycoolgal

I have never heard of such a thing. Have you used that Operating System disk before. If you downloaded it or got it from a source other than Microsoft it could be set up to fail. Answer those questions before I go further. You can do a google search and …

If your floppy drive is having problems I would think that could cause it. I had a floppy drive go out once, in fact it would go in and out. Turned out it was my power supply. You would think if a power supply goes out that nothing would work …

Try reformating with a boot disk and installing xp again. You can do a google search for boot disks.

So many many problems could be resolved if people only backed up there system with an image. I use to be what I called the reformat queen until I descovered hard drive imaging. I have now gone 5 years without reformating. Anytime something goes wrong which seems to be often …

I wish I could help but I have never had this problem before. I wonder if the xp disk coiuld be damaged in some way. Sounds like your HD is okay cause you installed 2000. I would suspect the XP disk. Try making a copy of it using clonecd.

Try going into safe mode. Usually pressing f8 as pc is booting up. You should be able to change it in there.

It could be a virus if the source downloaded from is suspect. Have you tried going into safe mode to delete it. I would hit it with a virus and trojan scan. I just noticed it is an avi. Years ago i ran across this problem in xp when I …

I agree with the idea that psu could be going bad but then again could be the drive itself.

When you go and get your windows updates it could be there among hardware

Boy I have no idea how to fix that other than have you tried recreating the icons. Maybe if you do those will be okay.

Google for some boot disks. Could even be a 98 boot disk and then google for instructions to format your disk. Is really easy to do. Use the boot disk to get in dos to format.