Hello, I awoke this morning, with my xp stuck in the shutting down mode. so I manually shut it down. turned it back on, only to c the black/white screen saying, start in safe mode, etc. tried all choices, but came back to same screen. put windows cd in, and tried to install, repair, to no avail. I had to go into my BIOS and change the drives to read my cd. theres more to tell, but at this point, I cant remember all the steps I took. I can c the dir in my c:\i386\system32. but dont know what I'm looking for. plz help