windows xp pro- blue screen, no boot

[heidad01]

Help please.....
My laptop and only computer stopes booting and shows the blue screen. Great, just the right time before s-mass.
Says to run "chkdsk /f".
Since I can not get it started, I can not run anything. Asking around, someone said i needed a win xp system disk which I can not make and that is why I am typing on my phone. I'm in WLA and am willing to drive to pick it up if someone can make me one. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm also going to the Burbank shoot on 12/20 and can connect in case you are going there. Thanks.

[spetsnaz]

You might need to get some local help for that issue.
can you run chkdsk? also have you tried boot in safemode?
Anything else comes up or it just shows chkdsk screen?
chkdsk means the hard drive might have a problem so it wants to run a check to fix any issues.
you can live boot a xp system using a flash drive load cmd prompt and run chkdsk/f

[njineermike]

How did you get online? If you have access to another computer, I may still have the .iso files for XP pro and you can burn your own DVD.

[spetsnaz]

How did you get online? If you have access to another computer, I may still have the .iso files for XP pro and you can burn your own DVD.

oooo. That would take hours to download...

[njineermike]

oooo. That would take hours to download...

The digital river links may still be around too

[heidad01]

Thanks for suggestions. My problem is that I do not have access to another computer. My phone is The only live link I have left. I need someone to make the win xp pro cd.

[njineermike]

question: was it 64 bit or 32 bit?

[spetsnaz]

probably need local help. you need to download proper iso file, and burn to cd would be easiest way. What phone are you using? wifi or data? you can download file on phone and find a computer to transfer too. if you can take some photos of what your pc is doing, would also help., how does the computer boot? restart it and press F8 numerous times and try to load boot menu...

Make sure you have correct version.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25129

[billofrights]

What kind of computer is it? I have plenty of Dell OEM cd's for Win XP and am going to the Burbank shoot tomorrow. It'll work on any machine for a clean install, but if it's a Dell you don't need to put in the activation key to unlock it.

[heidad01]

The laptop is an IBM, THINKPAD z60. Win xp pro with service pak 3.

[SoCal Gunner]

If you hold down F8 at boot up, can you get into safe mode?

More than likely you are going to need a Win XP CD, so you'll want to start looking.

[heidad01]

I've tried the f8 while booting and it does not go anywhere. None of the options work.

[heidad01]

Njineermike, it is 32 bits. It is about 6 years old.

[bg]

I have a feeling someone has a bad drive..

If you can, write down the 0X codes at bsod.
List them if you can. That would be very helpful.

You didn't happen to go into BIOS and change anything
did you ? Also if running dual ram. pull one out and see
if it boots, if not then try the other stick and see what
happens.

[heidad01]

BG, I did not change bios. The oz error message is
0x0000007B...........
The dots are other char and numbers but don't stay on the screen long enough.
It does list a bunch of files from c:/windows/system32/drivers/... some that I could see were
Ntfs.sys
Ndis.sts