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Originally Posted by vangndy
At this point I suspect critical windows files somehow have become corrupted (but i'm not sure). I have attempted a recovery install from the xp install disc but the c drive is not detected by recovery console. I am unsure how to proceed and any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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Instead of the CD/DVD boot, try booting to safemode. If it won't do that, then you are correct, something is hosed in the System32 directory. Pull the drive and put it in an external USB case and access it with the Laptop. You can then examine the System32 directory and try to copy files fro the Laptop (if it is also XP).
A a bare minimum, you will have access to your data files and can copy them off before doing anything drastic. I suggest this be your first action, even before a chkdsk.