well it just so happens i can't open the d drive using command prompt. It will close explorer as it tries to open and restart explorer giving me a window talking about safe mode. I've tried using my external and flash drive.

ok change the bios to boot first the cd drive. put the CD in, Do you have a floppy drive?

the next step in this will be making your flashdrive into a bootable device with the cd drivers to get the damn thing to boot

if none of this works and you cannot get to the recovery console - do a reinstall of XP, it will replace the OS but keep the other data on it

no floppy...its on a laptop...i cant even reinstall xp...it wont open the cd drive...but maybe after i change the boot on the bios

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huh?

you mean it wont open the drive bay or read the drive thus assigning it a drive letter?

changing the boot on the bios worked...but uhh putting in the cd was ok...the part that was troublesome is that if i tried to use cmmd prompt to open the drive to read the disk caused explorer to close...no autorun and opening and folder restarted explorer...but it's ok, fixed it thanks

alright now i have an issue with my vaio...it's not really something big yet, but lets see, I can't use scan disk or it'll crash my explorer, nor can i use it in cmd prompt nor before windows starts....secondly i can't use safe mode and that hangs around mup.sys...nothing else is wrong though...but i need safe mode eventually and i don't really care about scandisk just wondering if there is a fix

uninstall the last xp updates you install or use the recovery option to go back a few days