Hello Burr Walnut First many thanks for your time and trouble to help me resolve this problem. I have tried your kind solutions but the system just keeps rebooting back to the same original error message everytime a press a key.
How do you format the HDD? sorry I am not that computer literate, I can follow instructions but never had to do this sort of thing before. There is nothing on the laptop I need to save so installing a fresh xp os would be possible, if only I could get the system to do something other than keep rebooting itself back to the error message. thanks