If I let it load just normal, without boot CD, it takes me straight to that screen. Now if I try any one of those options it prompts: The following is missing or corrupted. The command.com is missing so troubleshooting from CLI is not an option either. So this screen is useless.

It will boot from XP CD. lol, yea no repair option for me, come on nihil that would be to easy.

>Also, have you tried the knoppix bootable CD since these developments?
No sir, but I will go do that and bid you a fair day.

>Otherwise we will have to figure a way of replacing those files off the XP CD.


>Didn't you say you had another HDD with XP on it?................probably easisest to make that >the master , boot from it and copy the files across to the old drive? (set it as slave, or use cable >select)

Thats what I was going to do with Knoppix. Didnt see the drive. In XP boot it shows the drive but where it should say what filesystem (NTFS,FAT32) it says [Unknown]