[Ham-Computers] Main Ham pc D.I.T.W. - Days of work ahead??

[Joseph Lutz]

I follow this group because of the computer expertise that
is available, and which I admittedly lack.  The pc that I 
use primarily for keeping all my logs and those of David -
4L1DA has gone into 'constant recycling' when I powered
up last weekend.  I have MS XP Pro on it, and it was 
networked with this and other pc's in the shack - and has
since been disconnected to that.  The only thing that I 
introduced that was different was to put on Open Office
onto it, because of the MS Excel that I have on this pc
I could not access correctly on the other one because it
did not have it installed anymore  I have tried to use the
Restore option, but get as far as 'sign in as administrator'
and that is it.  I did not use a pw on that pc, or any [as I
am the only one using these pc's].  I also tried all the
other options and none worked - go so far and then
recycle after the start up screen and then 'click'.  One
time when I finally chose the option 'start in normal
mode' [I think that was it], the pc came up and said
that it had to check to make sure C:\ drive was not
corrupted - and scanned the complete drive and it
passed, and went to start-up sequence again, and after
the MS start up screen and before the desktop - the
'click' did it again.  My main concern right now is to
the info [log files] and although I back up the files
monthly - and I have complete files for all calls on
this pc - the individual log keeping was on the one
down and I would have to 'reconstruct' from this pc
and CD's.  Any ideas?  Or should I just 'bite the 
bullet and start over again?  I have been thinking of
bringing one of my C64's down from the loft and 
use that one!!!  Appreciate 'any' assistance.
73,
JOE W7LPF
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MGR: 4L1DA