DVD writer in Safe mode

[liamboyle06]

Hi All, not sure if this is in the correct area but here goes.
My gf's Da's PC will not boot normally to winXP, Boots straight to a Blue Screen error with 000000xxxxx00000 ( or something to that degree). I tried booting into Safe mode - successful.
Did a virus scan Using Norton and found that there was about 50-60 virsuses on it. NOrton although could only remove 37 of these.
I tried disabling everything in the startup group by going into MSCONFIG and still will not boot normally to winXP.
I have 2 Questions:
1. Is there anything else I can do?
2. If Not, can the DVD writer work in Safe mode so he can create a data disk with most of his stuff on it( about 40gbto back up).

Eagerly Await your responses.

[Aragorn]

Have you copied across the latest Norton virus sigs? Try using free/demo virus tools - one might succeed where others fail. If Norton identifies each virus you could look on their site for manual removal tips and tools. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

I would be surprised if the DVD writer works in safe mode. Can you get a second hard drive from PC World and copy the data to this? (note - not certain that you can run disk management app in safemode - you may need to install a clean copy of XP on this drive.)

HTH

Hope this link helps:

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/hd/cpyhd/

[JediMaster]

Could you not re-install/repair XP? The Data would still be there (if its in Folders not like: Windows, My Documents..