I recently purchased a copy of windows xp home and installed it on my DVD writer machine.

I didn't bother with activating it and now that I am past the expirey date I can't seem to get into windows any more.

Anyone got any ideas ?

I have already tried safe mode which will not boot either.

I have items on the desktop which I need to recover. Is their anyway of getting round this ?

It doesn't even give me the option to register the product anymore which I would be happy to do at this stage.