/cue soap opera music NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[martyr]

^ her harddrive rattles when i shake it.

i shake it a lot.


anyway, i agree with rbstr, try the repair installation first, it won't endanger any of your non-windows data.

if that fails, take your hdd to a working machine witha free ide channel and start backing up what you need, then format it, partition it, put the data back on, and head back to your system to reinstall windars.

edit: grr, you got wagner stuck in my head