First of all, I am not even close to a computer expert. Also, I'm using XP.
I had a problem with my computer where, anytime the computer turned on, it would continually restart. As a solution, I thought a recovery may work. F10 led me to PC-Doctor for Windows PE. The recovery brought me back to the original setup for the computer, making me believe that everything has been wiped. While going through the setup, my computer restarted randomly. Now, the computer resets, comes up with the message "Windows did not install correctly. Please run setup again" or something similar to that. After clicking OK, it instantly restarts the computer and has the same message. It's in an infinite loop now and I can't get it to start up. I want to run the recovery again, but I fear that, if a backup file or something was created, it will be deleted with another recovery.
Does anyone know how to break this loop and if there's any hope of getting my files back? Thank you.
I had a problem with my computer where, anytime the computer turned on, it would continually restart. As a solution, I thought a recovery may work. F10 led me to PC-Doctor for Windows PE. The recovery brought me back to the original setup for the computer, making me believe that everything has been wiped. While going through the setup, my computer restarted randomly. Now, the computer resets, comes up with the message "Windows did not install correctly. Please run setup again" or something similar to that. After clicking OK, it instantly restarts the computer and has the same message. It's in an infinite loop now and I can't get it to start up. I want to run the recovery again, but I fear that, if a backup file or something was created, it will be deleted with another recovery.
Does anyone know how to break this loop and if there's any hope of getting my files back? Thank you.