I'll try to keep this as short and yet, thorough as possible. My mom called me (she thinks I know stuff) because her PC would not boot up. She gets the black screen with lots of white letters on it and then that's as far as it will go. Will not let her start up in safe mode. We have no rescue disks, no backups, etc. We do not even have the original XP disk. My question is....are we doomed without any disks or is there a way to reboot without such? Thanks in advance. I just found this site today and have been enjoying it. TGIF!