Can not boot up into windows - keeps looping

[philbreck]

can anyone help - Customer Support closed at Weekend!!
WHen I switch on - I can not get into Windows(Xp) - the booting image appears then it powers down and starts again and keeps looping.
This may have occured after battery ran out...
any ideas please
Philip

[Thalamus.]

Hi Philip,

Welcome to Club Vaio,

Can you boot into safe mode press F8 repeatedly when booting your Vaio..

[philbreck]

Thank you - have done this - I now have a screen of various meesages/threads all reading
multi(0)disk(0)redisk(0)partition(2)\windows\system32\Drivers\....etc all ending .sys

it then does the same as before and switches off and loops back to reboot....
??

[Blencogo]

Hi Philip and welcome.

Have you tried choosing "Last Good Configuration" from the screen produced by tapping F8 at boot-up?

It sounds like your System Files have become corrupted and choosing this option will force Windows to use the settings from the last time your Vaio booted successfully.

[philbreck]

thanks but no go
whatever I do it will not get past the Windows XP booting up window....?