MY COMPUTER NO LONGER WORKS!... PLEASE READ?

This morning I tried to install iTunes 5.0 on my Dell computer. It was installed and then ran the message "...Do you want to restart...etc.". After agreeing to that, my computer restarted and would not load back to the desktop. I tried running it under safe mode and starting the computer up under the cd drive to run the diagnostics disc (as well as several other discs including re-installing the operating system) and none of it works. My computer is completely useless at this moment and the worst part is that this is at my work office!. HELP! PLEASE!

good gracious, Philip ...
okay, do you have another PC available running Windows 2000? can you make a startup floppy on that, and start the dead machine using that?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-u s/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/core /fndbconLURV.asp
love, b

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