T60 wont go past Windows XP startup black screen

Hi guys
I am computer noob so take it easy on the flaming. I got a 2 yr old T 60 laptop with 1gb of mem, 80 gb hard drive and XP Home Edition.  I had finger print protection and everything to make it secure and my cousin wanted to use my compter when I am not around and I did not know how to disable figer proection so I restored the computer to factory state.  It was working fine until 30 min ago when I shut computer off by just pressing the off button for 5 seconds. 
Now it just stops at WINDOWS XP screen and wont let me even access the THINK VANTAGE page to restore to factory state.  It's not letting me access safe mode either.  I am an idiot and did not make a bootable disk since computer companies are being cheap these days and not giving one like they used to.
Please help me fix this problem.  Thanks in Advance.

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