AFTER you copied all those files which you really need, you better reïnstall whole the PC, windows XP.
It might prevent that this happens again, and all the cookies, little virusses, bugs and all that kind of crap which was still on your pc, will get deleted then.
It makes your laptop much faster again, and less buggy.
IF you reïnstall the pc by CD, first go to your BIOS screen (by pressing "del" when you start your laptop.)
Then go to "Advanced Bios Features"
"First Boot Device" That probably is "Hard Disk" then.
Before you reïnstall Windows XP, change it into "CD-ROM"
Then change "Second Boot Device" into "Hard Disk"
Why? Else, if it first searched the Hard Disk, it won't be able to find anything, so, the pc will stuck. You won't be able to do anything with the computer then.
Now, if you changed that, and you put the windows XP install thing into your CD player, it will find that, so your able to install Windows XP again.
After you installed Windows XP, you can change the things I said back again.
Which means:
First Boot Device into Hard Disk and Second Boot Device into whatever it was before you changed it.
Remember this:
Your boot system might be different than mine. If so, ask some computer pro to help you out. If you do not do this, your laptop will be screwed ;P
Edit:
If the things are set to what I said already, it should be fine, and you can just reinstall Windows XP
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Originally Posted by Grytolle
Just install another copy of XP, all your files will remain on harddrive if you do not edit the partitions. The only harm that can be done by having multiple XPs is that your old copy won't work anymore - and since it doesn't already... ;p
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And ofcourse, the lag it brings with it, the bugs it brings with it.