Hello all!
I am trying to help a friend whose Acer computer has a problem booting up. Whenever he presses the power button, the acer splash screen appears, and then the option of choosing what mode of windows screen appears. No matter which option you choose (safe mode, last known good configuration etc.), the windows loading screen where a blue bar moves from left to right appears for a few seconds and then a blue screen comes saying something about the hardware or hard disk or something like that and then it immediately disappears and the computer restarts. Both of us don't have the Windows XP cd...and he hasn't made any recovery discs. The loss of data is not that big an issue with him.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?