Recovery of files on unbootable XP box

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Having removed some spyware from registry I find that my XP-professional OS
will now not boot. To my knowledge all files are still OK, I just can't
access them. Safe mode etc does not do it. Computer gets stuck on " starting
windows XP " dialogue screen.

I have OEM installation CD and have tried the Recovery Console when booting
from the CD, this gives me a version of DOS ( I believe ) but it does not
seem to allow me to navigate outside the windows directory.

Does anyone know what best course of action is ? All I want to do basically
is makes sure I save some files that are in my documents and on the desktop.
Then I can re-install the whole thing.

Advice is appreciated
 
JC said:
Having removed some spyware from registry I find that my XP-professional OS
will now not boot. To my knowledge all files are still OK, I just can't
access them. Safe mode etc does not do it. Computer gets stuck on " starting
windows XP " dialogue screen.

I have OEM installation CD and have tried the Recovery Console when booting
from the CD, this gives me a version of DOS ( I believe ) but it does not
seem to allow me to navigate outside the windows directory.

Does anyone know what best course of action is ? All I want to do basically
is makes sure I save some files that are in my documents and on the desktop.
Then I can re-install the whole thing.

Advice is appreciated
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Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me will be able to tell you how
to do a recovery install. However, if you definetely can't reinstall and
save your files the only other way i know to gain access to them could be to
boot with a "live" Knoppix CD then navigate to the Windows partition and
save to floppy or burn to a CD.
 
Thanks Martin.. will look into that, agree with you that answers would be
better than questions.

JC
 
Turns out that the XP re-installation CD actually has option to repair
existiing
installation.. it worked ! Would have thought MS could be a bit more open
about this in their documentation.
 
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