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Dell Laptop left in freezing temps, now wont work

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scb175

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My cousin left his Dell laptop in his car over night and now the thing will not boot properly. It gets to the Windows XP screen and just sits there. The computer was working perfectly fine -- but he did say he pulled the power cord to shut it off. I'm wondering if some windows files got corrupt?

Anyways, i've tried everything that I know of... safe mode and what not. I'm just wondering if there is any way to get back into windows without reformatting the drive and reinstalling windows?

Is there a procedure to overwrite boot files to fix this problem?

Thanks for help
 
what pcgeek11 said, BUT since it's a Dell it might have one of those retarded Dell XP Recovery discs that formats the drive when you try to re-install. I could be wrong, but I know a lot of Dell/HP/Compaq's use to come with these. Doing upgrade installs won't work. A repair install of XP won't delete any data, this is assuming of course the HD isn't bad.
 
OK. I have actually formatted this laptop before and installed XP on it. Do you have to use the same XP disk that you used to install as the repair disk? I might have lost that awhile ago....
 
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