Satellite M115-S3154 will not start Windows XP

Opened new post per Jerry concerning my 3yr old Satellite: M115-S3154 w/ Windows XP Media Ctr Ed 2005
Yesterday upon start up, I immediately rec'd message stating:
- "windows did not start successfully - recent hardware or software changes might have caused this"
- it gave options to restart in the 3 different Safe Modes, last known configuration and start normally - none of these worked. I've tried numerous times yesterday and today with absolutely no luck.
When I shut laptop down 2nites ago, it seemed like it shut down extremely fast?! Today I realized that battery yellow light was on and thought maybe it wasn't charged enough. Charged for over 2hrs, have a blue light, but still had same experience as above.
- I removed and replaced battery - no luck
- I removed and replaced HDD - no luck
I just now, followed your advice on pressing F8 immediately after start - however, there is no repair mode or whatever you mentioned under the Windows Advanced Options Menu for this laptop - what I do have is
= the 3 different Safe modes - tried all these, no help
= Enable Boot Logging - tried this, no help
= Enable VGA Mode
= Last Known Good Configuration... - tried this, no help
= Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows domain controllers only) - tried this, no help
= Debugging Mode - tried this, no help
= Disable automatic restart on system failure
= Start Windows Normally - tried this, no help
= Reboot - tried this, no help
= Return to OS Choices Menu
I attempted the Microsoft Knowledge Base article suggested by Jerry -
Advanced troubleshooting for general startup problems in Windows XP - but no help.
I also tried MS article 310353 - How to configure WinXP to start in a "clean boot", but under Method 1, the downloadable guided help would not run on this computer i'm using to figure out the Toshiba problem. Method 2 of this guide requires you to be able to open windows - pretty dumb since I can't get windows to run in first place! So I'm still stuck.
I do have the original Toshiba Recovery and Applications CD - I have many files and pics that I do not want to lose.
thanks roo

Satellite M115-S3154
there is no repair mode or whatever you mentioned under the Windows Advanced Options Menu for this laptop
That was for the Windows Vista thread you jumped in to.
= Disable automatic restart on system failure
Did you try this one? Instead of a reboot, it should give you a blue screen with the STOP error and possibly the file responsible. We could use that information.
Ihave many files and pics that I do not want to lose.
If the hard drive is still okay (there's no reason so far to doubt that), we should be able to rescue the files.
One way is to put the hard drive in an enclosure and plug that into another computer.
You can also make a bootable CD with tools. Let us know.
-Jerry

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