failed startup

[henryg]

Hindows XP HE hangs at splash screen. have tried all
modes via boot menu. Computer is an HP Pavlion 5000
laptop. Need to recover the data on the hard disk . Have
no backups.

[Rich Barry]

Check here
http://tinyurl.com/lag2
"henryg" > wrote in message
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> Hindows XP HE hangs at splash screen. have tried all
> modes via boot menu. Computer is an HP Pavlion 5000
> laptop. Need to recover the data on the hard disk . Have
> no backups.