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i cant start the computer as without the disk, the screen is blank.
vehelpfulguy, i did put the bootable cd in the computer and restart with this, all was fine, it re-booted the system etc and said the computr is now ready to start. it turned off then on, the black screen with the xp logo came up then it went to a blue screen where it says:
please wait while windows prepares to start....
it counts to four dots (after the word start)
it then makes some noises and freezes.