I\'ll give the full story as it may help. I gained a free copy of XP pro from Uni. It\'s lagitamate, microsoft let us have it for free because you need it to run VB.net studio. Being a Software Engineering Student it\'s within microsofts interest to incorruge us to learn there launguges.
Anyway I upgraded my computer a few months ago and XP stopped working. It failed to boot and gave stop code errors. I reintalled it from the CD and it worked although I had to phone microsoft to reactivate it.
In the last few weeks I built a second computer out of spare parts and put XP on this just so I had a machine to test stuff on. I phoned though and activated it. The next day my main machine stopped working. Failed to boot with the same blue screen I had before. The problem I have now is that when I boot from the XP CD I still get the same blue screen so I carn\'t reinstall. All my Uni work and software is on the hard drive so I wan\'t to aviod a total wipe. Any ideas?
