"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
news:g6t9f2hhbqpvnmeaaqsa3k6on65lvh79p4@4ax.com...
> 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.

Sorry for not making that clear in the original post. The reason a repair
install isn't looked at is because just a repair (twice) didn't fix it (same
error), & I tried a complete reinstall (non-format) but canceled before it
started anything because Windows warned me that a new install would kill any
user accounts & files encrypted or protected by those user accounts.

There is only a single folder outside of the documents & settings area which
is blocked that I need to copy the contents of. Then reloading Windows is
no problem.