ok so my memory on my laptop was like 84MB and suddenly it froze. So I manully turned it off and tried to restart it, but now it wont start up. It gets to the forst screen, it says Dell and has the options of pressing F2 or F12. F2 takes me to the BIOS menu F12 is the boot order. Anyways, if I just let it run 9Like I used to,) It just shuts off and attempts to restart itself. I tried going to safe mode, but when I select safe mode my laptop shuts itself off again and tries to restart normally.

I think the problem is my low memory so is there anyway I can deleat files without starting my laptop up? Is there anything I can change in the BIOS menu that would help? Please let me know, also I got the computer a year ago, second hand so there is no windows start disk. I'm running XP and its a Dell Inspirion 1000 from 2003 (I'm pretty sure)

thanks for any help It's greatly appreciated

Hi,

Can you first confirm the amount of RAM you have installed by pressing F2 at boot and looking in the bios. You don't have 84MB of RAM.

it says 30, hope that helps

and thanks for the quick response

Hi Radio

You may be confusing that figure with the size of the hard drive, as XP won't run on any less than 128mb ram.
Are you definately sure you can't get into Safe mode by pressing F8 continuously on power up?
If you can't, press F12 and change the boot order to cdrom, insert your XP disk and run a repair from there.

sorry if I got confused, I'm a computer Noob :P anyways, like I said, the laptop is second hand and did not come with a disk of any sort, so I guess I'm messed over.

Is there anyway to hook the hard dirve of my laptop to the PC I'm using and delete some useless files that way?

anyways, thanks for the help thus far

Take a look at this connector Radio, you can then attach an ide cable from that to the mobo.
CTG Laptop To IDE Hard Drive Adapter 17705 at TigerDirect.com