Windows XP Home SP3 Cant boot into safe mode from a crash Sony laptop VGN-A790

just having my disk, in the windows 7 computer to try and make the disk, sounds crazy but it crashed, and didn't click on anything on the cd. I was able choose boot normally after taking the disk out of the drive and that worked. Don't know if it was my disk, or the different downloads including software to make the disk.

When I choose safemode, i get a black screen with a bunch of lines of code flashing on the screen that ends in mup.sys   this was a response from my original post,****

When the last thing you see on the screen in Safe mode is mup.sys, lots of folks think the problem is with mup.sys and go to great lengths to try to replace it but that is not the problem at all - mup.sys has already loaded and the problem is what comes after mup.sys.

In Safe Mode after mup.sys loads, that is when XP checks the dirty bit on the volume and if a chkdsk needs to run, it is going to run and you will not see anything else on your screen - probably for a long time.  The system will appear that it is hung or stuck on mup.sys (but XP has already gone past that) and the chkdsk is probably running.

Problem is after the 5 min hang it reboots, and I can't use F8

I think I should 1st try and get sp2 on before sp3. I will try the links you supplied at least the one for making sp3 I already had but was going to follow the directions for making the sp2 first of the same site, before doing sp3 that is where i read can't use OEM.

If system crashed when you put in the disk try unplugging anything you don't need attached to the computer.  Change auto play settings to view files because you do not want it to run the oem cd you just want to get to the files.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/set-up-windows-to-automatically-play-cds-and-dvds

I'm able to extract the sp2 but when I go to combine it with the xp oem cd I get an error on the command line.

sp2 folder with sp2 cabinet I placed in the c drive, files from my xp home disk I placed in a folder named xp and placed in the c drive just as instructions said to do.  the xpcd folder is empty I was going to put it all in there when complete

This is from the site and you can see alot of info before the last 3 lines which are the instructions. None of that appears when I type the instructions, I hope that is not a bad sign.

Instructions say type what I have below on the command line, **notice there is only enter at the end.**This is incorrect there should be an enter after each line, like in the 2nd step.

cd \cd sp2xpsp2.exe -x:c:\sp2 [ENTER]

I get a window that extraction is complete. Then the instructions say to click ok and follow these instructions:  I enter the first line and press enter. No problems, I enter the 2nd line and press enter no problems.

cd i386 [ENTER] cd update [ENTER] update -s**:c:\xp** [ENTER]

After I hit enter for the 3rd time the screen looks like this and adds the extra line at the end. 

Ignore the first line after c: I tried that first since there was only one enter command.

I corrected it below that, which is the first set of commands where the instructions forgot about the enter 3 times not 1, then comes the 2nd set of commands, total of 6 lines, the 7th line is done by the computer, not me.

after I hit enter on the 2nd to last line (in the image above), the last line appears and  I get this pop up

I tried this twice and both times got this error. Why does b say that the files could be in ia64, I have a 32bit machine not 64, or nec98 directory?? When it says must reside in i386 is that referring to the i386 in my OEM disk folder, or the i386 sp2 folder. Or does all of this justmean I can't use an OEM disk?

I did extract sp3 also, and I think it was strange that the directions never stated where the files would go after they were combined, or that there was no mention of creating a folder for the files to be sent to, which is why i made the xpcd folder to begin with.

Now I will try to find & extract the hot fixes, and maybe try imgburn and or nLite and see if I can combine them that way. Unless you know why I got the error above, I guess I will have to buy a new xp disk.

Are you sure SP1 is on the disk?  Check the file paths and directories' names

How to integrate software updates into your Windows installation source files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828930

How to slipstream hotfixes that replace pre-existing driver files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814847

You do not want to slipstream SP2 just SP3. 

I recommend to start over and follow the steps in this document. Use AutoStreamer to complete the process.

http://www.windowsbbs.com/windows-xp/56846-autostreamer-slipstreaming-windows-xp-sp2-bootable-install-cd-easy-way.html

Slipstreaming

http://www.pcmech.com/article/what-is-slipstreaming/

Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Create Bootable CD

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/Slipstreaming_Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3.html

Edit:

This can happen for any number of reasons. You may've run out of disk space,

or one or more of the files may be corrupt. Try the process again; if you

see the error again, you may not be able to slipstream your SP2 CD.

I can't run our of diskspace, because I never got to the point of burning the disk, this is pre burning the disk, this is combing the files before making the disk, screen shot shows sp1