If you have two systems, mount the unbootable drive in the good one, copy the data you need from it, and then reinstall the drive in the non-booting system, format the drive, and reinstall Windows.
You can fiddle with it, but that's probably going to be the end result anyway.
ejn63
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June 9th, 2004 00:00
If you have two systems, mount the unbootable drive in the good one, copy the data you need from it, and then reinstall the drive in the non-booting system, format the drive, and reinstall Windows.
You can fiddle with it, but that's probably going to be the end result anyway.
SwiperTheFox
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June 9th, 2004 05:00
Type this in the search box on the upper left side of this website (without the quotes) and you'll find the solution:
"How Do I Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents the Microsoft® Windows® XP Operating System from Starting? "