No. The clue is BOOTMGR is not an XP vocabulary item
Quick answer. Try another Hard drive. The problem will go away or I will eat crow. Trust me on this.
Alternate answer. Get a copy of GPARTED. It is a bookable CD. Use it to delete any and all partitions. Then create a new partition that uses only 7GB of the drive.Format it as NTFS. And mark the partition active and MSDOS type.
Unless the XP CD has been damaged, that should solve the problem.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Hey I wanted to say something before I tried what you said. I found another harddrive right, well I put it in and that BOOTMGR left. Now what I see is that screen that tells me:
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe mode with command Prompt
Last known good configuration (your most recent settings that worked)
Start windows normally.
Now the problem is that when I press enter on safe more or last known good configuration and start windows normally, it just resets the computer back to the beginning.
This feels like a break through. Should I try something you suggested now or is there something else that can be done. By the way I tried the XP disk again on this new harddrive and I still get those weird something is corrupted errors. The XP disk is kinda scuffed.
Should I try to look for another XP disk? I wonder if the disk is the cause of the File is corrupt/not loaded/missing errors.