On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:52:52 -0500, David Maynard
<nospam@private.net> wrote:

>Daniel wrote:
>> I've got a problem where I cant boot into Windows XP Pro. I get an error
>> trying to load a corrupted file or something (usually whole system locks, or
>> I see the file its trying to load if I select safe mode). Booting up on my
>> other XP install on an IDE drive & renaming the bad files doesn't fix
>> anything. (This happened after having the computer & surge protector shut
>> off for 10 days while I was away, power on, boot up, crash, cant reboot.
>> I've had other problems with this board & also now have lost the on board
>> NIC too.)



>Perhaps I'm missing some subtlety in there but what's wrong with doing a
>repair install?
>
> <snip>


Agreed, that would seem a good attempt to get it working
again. Remaining two issues are then why the problem,
possibly a virus/etc that a repair won't remove, or a drive
malfunction making it prudent to first copy off everything
no matter what happens next.