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Old 16-12-2009, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by supernova1965 View Post
That does sound like a possibility unfortunately I know it is running slow but you may want to try to backup your images to an external HDD ASAP. As for the repair install try this link for instructions
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
I repaired the XP install as per Warren's link...recovered the install
no problems. I can access all apps now, I'm really at a loss to explain
what caused it....

All working fine now as original.
You are all terrific, selfless human beings! Thanks so much for the help.

Steve.

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Originally Posted by mithrandir View Post
Assuming you have another computer available to you with a burner,
http://www.ubcd4win.com/ lets you build a bootable CD of XP to do all the diagnostics and backups. You need an XP install CD, so I hope you mean the one you have is not just a recovery disk.
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