Are you using any customized bootscreen? Check you boot.ini; You should have something like this if you are using a bootscreen; multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /kernel=kernel1.exe Delete the /kernel tag and reboot IMPORTANT!!, Be sure that you have a copy of the working boot.ini If you can not start windows after the change, Start your XP-CD, press R (i think) to start the Recovery Console, and replace boot.ini with the old, working one! btw: your boot.ini might be Write Protected (bad english?), change that before editing =D Good luck!