Sorry for the inconvenience, but windows did not start successfully

[SVT Lurch]

My laptop started saying that and it gives choices for booting: safe mode, normal, and last known good configuration. None of them work. It has a Rescue and Recovery Program that still works, but I don't have any backups. Is there anyway I can retrieve my files, or are they gone?

[bud]

Easiest would be to get a drive caddy and pull the files from another computer.

[turkey_85gt]

My Computer just started doing that and I had lost everything I had on mine.

Is there a way to fix what it going on(It says the same thing as posted above).

Thanks in Advance

[SVT Lurch]

[QUOTE=bud]Easiest would be to get a drive caddy and pull the files from another computer.[/QUOTE]
Could you elaborate, or tell me where I can get (a good) one?

[bud]

[QUOTE=SVT Lurch]Could you elaborate, or tell me where I can get (a good) one?[/QUOTE]

Something like this is what I am talking about...

http://www.priorityelectronics.com/universal/ecs-usb20-25b.htm

[Ferendon]

Windows XP's kind way of saying "NTLDR not found". Files SHOULD, and I stress SHOULD, be intact, but the basic systems of the OS, which are required to load the GUI, are not functioning properly. If you can get to a command prompt you could format your MBR, but I doubt it will work.