My computer freezes and then restarts itself (every few minutes). Tried System Restore but no good.

Hi again and thanks for the link. I have currently got the XP Professional disk in my PC, gone through the options and found that my partitioned space on the C drive does NOT have the option to press [R] to repair. Any ideas why this might be or what I could try next. On the link it does mention something about trying to repair on the initial menu but struggling with admin password as well as choosing which number to choose. Ta
 
Why don't you delete the Windows partition and start a fresh install of Windows. You can put that hard drive aside and install Windows fresh on another drive. Install the original drive as a second drive and recover any files that way
 
I'm thinking that I'll need a fresh install too. Will I need to buy a second hard drive then in order to do this (and keep anny my files)?
 
Yes, you will have to buy another hard drive if you don't have a spare drive handy. You will be able to save documents, pictures and music, but no program files unless the program install files are on the old drive
 
I am currently in the process of doing a clean install but whenever it gets to about 25 mins left it just restarts. Just then it restarted when I was trying to enter the product key. I guess this means something must be wrong with one of my components. Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
I think there is a 160gb hard drive and 1gb of RAM (2 sticks) I think. There are 4 memory stick slots to connect to the motherboard and I've changed the memory sticks into different slots and it made no change. The computer specs on control panel say 2gb of RAM so not sure of the disparity.
 
Disregard the above re disparity. I just re-checked one of my earlier posts and it says there is only 1Gb of RAM (two 512 sticks). Definately 160Gb hard drive and 1Gb RAM
 
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