system has crashed and it's asking for xp disc after inserting 6 boot discs

[bonnie]

system has crashed and it's asking for xp disc after inserting 6 boot discs

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as my PC is my only source
to communicate with my ALS stricken father.
My sony pc has decided to go into an endless loop. I turn it on, it shows
me the sony logo, goes to the screen where I get to decide to start up
normal or in safe mode but no matter what I choose it starts the process
over again. I get a bunch of jibberish first if I choose safe mode. It
types the same line over and over again....
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers\???????
Replace ??????with various endings like drivers\pci.sys there are too many
to write down and I can only copy one at a time before the system starts to
restart.

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

Which 6 discs are these? How far did it get into Safe Mode?

If you absolutely cannot get into a stable Safe Mode, then do another selective boot, and select "Last Known Good".

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

Bonnie,
Your system is in a never-ending restart loop because Windows has a fail condition, & it's set to restart again at each failure.
You need to clear the restart on failure. If you have XP with Service Pack 2, you can easily clear this.

When the pc is booting up (after the BIOS has done its POST test and
before Windows starts loading),
Tap F8 Function key to get bootup options. Tap & keep repeat tapping F8 !

You will actually see "Disable automatic restart on system failure" as an option .
Select that and give it a try.

Once restart on failure is disabled, you should get a STOP error with
text --- at the next problem.
Write it all down, and then start searching for the final solution.

Take a look at the Troubleshooting Windows STOP messages at Aumha.org

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm