Hello, all! I hope this is the right forum. If not, feel free to move it to the right section.
Anyway, I'm freaking out about my desktop PC at the moment. My laptop is doing just fine, but I need the other one for the printer and the family needs it as well.
Someone sent us a corrupted Windows media player file and our HP computer informed us that we were missing an important file. Windows XP couldn't start. I pressed F10 a few times and entered the system recovery menu. It took me through the whole "Introduction to Windows" thing and then, just as I pressed "finish", the computer froze. The tower sounded like a 747 jet, but the monitor didn't show any progress.
I tried to turn off the entire computer (and the power strip) several times, but every time I tried to reload it, the "please wait" message would appear under the Windows XP logo. It kept leading me to the last "finish" screen, but it would always freeze. Also, when I inserted a disk, it said that they couldn't find the EULA and that setup couldn't cotinue.
Please help or pray! I'm very lost at the moment and I have several big projects due...