Service Pack 2 and Rebooting Problems

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EinMex wrote:
> I am in need of genuine help. I recently installed SP2 on my Sony
> VAIO PC and am not able to sucessfully boot. The computer seems to
> be stuck in a continuous cycle of rebooting to the Windows XP Home
> Ed. screen but never getting to the desktop. Yesterday I was finally
> able to boot using Last Known Good Configuration since it would not
> let me boot in Safe Mode. I received an error Window stating that
> Winlogon.exe experienced a problem and needed to close. I ignored
> that and proceeded to remove SP2 since I suspected SP2 was causing
> the booting problems. After removing SP2, I have been unable to boot
> and none of the boot options when pressing F8 work. Unfortunately, my
> XP came bundled in Sony's system recovery disks (no separate XP disk
> for reinstall), so I am stuck. Can anyone help?

You are indeed stuck.... unless anyone else knows how to pull you out of
this one... the only way you are going to get yourself out is to wipe the
hard drive and start over..... if there is anything you need on the hard
drive, take it to a friends house and connect it to his/her computer, move
over all of the data you want to keep, put your hard drive back into your
tower, reinstall xp with the system recovery disks, remove your drive again
and copy your backed up data back to it from your friends computer.