Hi Thanks for helping but everythin seems ok in the bios..I ordered a quickrestore cd...I already have the recovery cd but It seems to not e working..I noticed today that the writing on it says to be used with quickrestore..so I guess the y go hand in hadn..maye thats why my recovery cd did not work from the beginning..has anyone restored thir xp system and have any advice on it?

also is ther eany way to save my data?

thanks!