Quote Originally Posted by Computernerd22 View Post
I cannot boot into safe mode or any other mode for that matter. Also, I have Suse 9.0 live cd but no go. I do not have any external HDD due to money being pretty tight. I have a lot of class work pictures video music and I have not been able to get back into windows at all.. I even tried restoring the system with the DISK that came with the DELL Vostro 200 and it is unable to reinstall the operating system.

I was thinking I could take out the old hard drive and install it into another machine and backup the data that way? Yes no maybe? Let me know.
SuSE 9 is ancient... get any new live distro and boot from cd. The reason why I keep coming back to this solution is, so you can make BACKUPS before you even try to attempt to restore you old system. Messing with restoring a system can lead to data loss. First make backups, then see what you can do with the system.

In your first post you said you were unable to make backups, now you say you have no disk to put the backups... so question: Where were you initially planning to put the backups? You do not have any other hard drive in general? If your data is so important.... boot into a live linux and burn the data on to dvds if you have to, or put another internal hard disk into the box and again, from a linux live cd make backups. But definately stop attempting to use any restore disk that came with your dell BEFORE you make backups.