laptop not booting up + 2 more points

[onceuponatim]

Ill try and get this right first time round...

my laptop hangs when its booting up, when i go through step by step it gets to mvp.sys or mup.sys then thats it (running win xp)

i beleive i may be able to sort this using the recovery disk (for the life of me I cant find the recovery disk...)

im getting online by running ubuntu linux from the cd

id also like advice (should i not get the above sorted)
can i access the data on my ntfs partition from with my linux environment

and 3
my other laptop, just up and running with bare xp, wont boot from cd to install linux (bios settings set to cd)...any ideas gurus

:-)

scald me and tell me to make 3 post if ya wanna :D

[kern]

hi 'tim

1: chase up your supplier if u can't find the re install/repair cd.

2: yes u can see an ntfs partiton using linux, altho i can't vouch directly for ubuntu. usually the problem with some flavours of linux is that it can't write to ntfs.

3:
have you tried verifying the CD by using it to boot on another PC ?
corrupt disk/u wrote the image incorrectly so it doesn't see a bootable cd/ etc

scald:

what's this to do with forensics ?

Kern