ALL date information unavailable/corrupt

[Guest]

The strangest thing happened yesterday. First things first. Windows XP
Professional SP2. Here's the problem...

All, and I mean all, date information, date displays, even the date from the
CMD window is corrupt/missing. Any time the date needs to be displayed on my
system, I either get nothing (just the time), or odd ascii characters. Doing
a "dir" command in the CMD window gives me "The parameter is incorrect."
instead of the date. Windows explorer (in details view) shows only times for
each file.

This happened after a system lockup (firewire issues I think) yesterday.
Windows update won't even let me in, giving me error number 0x8024D002.

I'm REALLY not looking forward to reinstalling my entire system.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

matte

 

[Jim]

Something you could try is to run System Restore to a point before it
happened. If that doesn't work, try running a repair from the XP disk.
If that doesn't work, try installing XP again over your current
install. You'll lose settings, but you won't lose your data.

 

[Ron Sommer]

dir lists the files.
date resets the date.