can not boot to safe mode in windows xp

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a friend of mine is having difficulty booting up his pc
he did a system restore and when he tries to boot up it stops on a black
screen after the windows xp pro blue bar so i told him to try to boot to safe
mode to change the restore but when he tries that it comes up with the
following
Multi(0)disk(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers\classpnp.sys I might add he no longer has any of the disks that came with his system.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP\)]

Without any disks, your friend is effectively dead in the water. He can't
reinstall, he can't do a repair install, he can't even get to the Recovery
Console. We can help if there are tools available but we are not magicians.