HELP! WinXP won't boot after winnt

[Rich]

Help!!!

I had WinXP running fine on Dell Pent. 333MHz w/1 60Gb disk and 192Mb ram.
Drive was in 2 partitions. C: drive was I think 8Gb. D: drive 52Gb. WinXP
was installed to C:\windows. 80% or more of all apps and everything else
was on D: drive. I installed a 2nd 8Gb drive. Ran Win2K-WS setup, deleted
all existing partitions and installed Win2K on the the newly installed
drive.

Problem:
Win2K boots fine. But, when booting to WinXP (while white
progress bar at bottom of screen) , I get message that a file is missing or
corrput in
"c:\windows\system32\config\SYSTEMd", followed by pointer to F8 for startup
options.

I rebooted to WinXP installed CD, ran the setup and opted to repair the
existing installation.
When prompted, logged into the original WinXP (recovery console) install as
admin. I've
never used this tool before and betweed reboots ran both fixboot and fixmbr.
No change.
Still can't boot to Windows XP.

Can anyone exlplain what happened and how to recover my origing XP
installation?

Many thanks,

Rich

 

[Rich]

A little more info.

I also tried most other options presented after <F8> while booting to XP.
None of those were successful either.