XP will not start!

[Devin Ryan]

Hi. I am running XP home SP2 on a Dell Dimension 2400 with a 2.40 GHz CPU,
and 2 days ago, I installed Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a
different partition on my HDD. Now, when I try to reboot into XP, it says a
file is missing or corrupt. Dell did not give me a XP CD when I bought my
computer. Is there any way to recover the missing XP files without
reinstalling XP?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi. I am running XP home SP2 on a Dell Dimension 2400 with a 2.40 GHz CPU,
and 2 days ago, I installed Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a
different partition on my HDD. Now, when I try to reboot into XP, it says a
file is missing or corrupt. Dell did not give me a XP CD when I bought my
computer. Is there any way to recover the missing XP files without
reinstalling XP?

Does it say *which* file is missing or corrupt? That might be useful
information.

If it's one of the registry files, you can use any bootable XP CD to fix it
via the recovery console.

HTH
-pk