I ran System Mechanic last night and this morning I rebooted to make the changes stick. When I rebooted my coputer said NTDRL is missing.
I went here
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm and downladed the fix but my luck - 1. Windows could not start because file "<Windows Root>\system32\hal.dll was missing or corrupt
I tried reloading Windows Xp Home again (thinking maybe something changed since the last time I reloaded Windows this morning. Now it says Setup could not read the CD you inserted, or the CD is not a valid Windows CD.
Wel, it's the replacement Cd they sent me when my burner ate the old one!
I can get into safe mode and until now I cold get into Window Repair. I did copy i386/ntdetec and i386/ntdecect.com into C, but the firect I overwrote and it couldn'd do the second.
I could scrub the drive with System Mechanic but them I would loose the 30 or so movies I downloaded that have been wating for the RMSd Lasonic hard drive to return from RMS status. I would really not like to lose all those.
So what do you thing? Is there hope, or do I scrub and start all over?
Sandy in FL