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What is being erased? Does it not boot into XP?
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What is being erased? Does it not boot into XP?

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 &nbsp; Do you per chance have a flash drive, a CD left in the drivem a external USB hard drive or something else like that attached to the computer? It sounds like it is trying to boot something else besides the hard drive.
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  Do you per chance have a flash drive, a CD left in the drivem a external USB hard drive or something else like that attached to the computer? It sounds like it is trying to boot something else besides the hard drive.

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could be a disc left in one of the drives, or a USB stick in the machine....<br />
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try pressing F8 just after it asks you to press F12 and try and get into safe mode....<br />
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could be a disc left in one of the drives, or a USB stick in the machine....


try pressing F8 just after it asks you to press F12 and try and get into safe mode....



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no, nothing. cant press F8.<br />
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cant i do a repair somehow from the windows xp disk ?
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no, nothing. cant press F8.

cant i do a repair somehow from the windows xp disk ?

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 &nbsp; How about F2 or DEL to enter setup? You don't see anything on the screen at all except F12 to Chane Boot?
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  How about F2 or DEL to enter setup? You don't see anything on the screen at all except F12 to Chane Boot?

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when i boot my xp machine, all i get is f12 to change boot. after that, i get a white cursor in the top left corner of the screen. how to i get it to boot without erasing everything?
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when i boot my xp machine, all i get is f12 to change boot. after that, i get a white cursor in the top left corner of the screen. how to i get it to boot without erasing everything?

white cursor when boot with xp

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.