XP will not boot even in safe mode ect

[mstaxi]

Hi,
I cannot boot a friends XP computer,Even in safe mode ect.
It started by saying XP cannot display desktop innsuficient resources.
When I restarted it as It would do nothing,not even ctrl alt del to task manager ect,It did a disk check, I did not see result.
Then it boots only to safe mode ect, when you click safe mode it just tries then comes back to the safe mode, safe mode with net ect.
I tried to re install XP repair but it says to accept press F8, but when you press F8 Nothing works the only button that does something is esc and then it cancels tries to boot and then back to the safe mode selection.
Please Help is this a failed ram issue...??

 

[HighlandeR]

times like this is when u need to do 2 things....

1) take the hdd out whack it into a work XP pc and just copy and backup all the files, and then put the hdd back and format/reload windows XP fresh.

Or

Get minipe, bartpe, poweriso tools from the net, these have got inbuilt utlities especially powermix, has an option to repair windows from its own windows recovery console.... from there you can run chkdsk /r, but tbh the 1st option is safer/quicker