Comp. Geeks, quick question

[equate975]

All the solutions except mine make you lose all the data too.

[TwoJ's]

Or find the right torrent for xp pro, download, burn .iso and throw it in there. Bam.

[equate975]

delete partition, create new one, format said partition, install legit copy of xp, set static swap file, defragment, tell your buddy to stop hanging out on warez and porn sites. install ad-aware and HJT. Disable all non-essential services, give yourself admin rights, and the owner limited rights. Give it back to him and tell him he's only allowed plain text email, secure websites, and ms office for school.

No, you need to rebuild the master boot record.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/483/xp_repair_fix_master_boot_record_recovery_console

Either that or you left a floppy or something stupid in the drive, cd, usb etc. Shit happens all the time at work.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Now thats pwnership right there.

[browntown]

delete partition, create new one, format said partition, install legit copy of xp, set static swap file, defragment, tell your buddy to stop hanging out on warez and porn sites. install ad-aware and HJT. Disable all non-essential services, give yourself admin rights, and the owner limited rights. Give it back to him and tell him he's only allowed plain text email, secure websites, and ms office for school.

[James Crivellone]

its toast, don't even bother trying to repair.

You need a Windows XP Professional OEM disk

[GarrettM]

My extra chromosome toting friend gave me his laptop to fix. It has XP Professional and when you start it up it says NTDLR.EXE is missing or corrupt please reinstall. I don't have a XP Pro disc so I downloaded like 4 different versions and burnt them to a CD, (It has a legit Serial on the bottom), and NONE of them worked. They all gave me different errors. Then I tried my XP Home disc which I used 10minutes before to install Home on my computer. It gave me an error after going through the setup to the point where it copies files, says "The following file is missing or corrup: \Windows\System32\c_1252.nls
You can attempt to repair it by pressing "R"

I press R and it just restarts. And now I am outa ideas as to what is wrong! RAM? HD?