Hi to everybody
I have a computer I am fixing for my friend and it has windows xp home sp2 with 3 users, and i had to format it for him because it had problems, i installed another user with my name and deleted all the users keeping the files, as i was deleting the last one an error message showed up with "cannot delete images as it is a windows folder", something like that and i found that the images folder was missing in the deleted user's folder on the desktop and in it's original location, i did a system restore and got all the users back, but then i did something really stupid, i booted with a ubuntu live cd to copy the data on my 500 gb external disk without risk of getting infected by viruses, and i started deleting a few system files on the c:\ directory so that it was easyer to sort out what i needed (i didn't delete the folders, just a few files on the root directory, don't remember which, and when i went to the user folder i didn't find the documents folder, even though i had just seen them on windows and they were there (documents and settings\the user\documents) so i tried to boot from windows again but i got the ntldr missing error, i tried to fix mbr, boot record and all the other tips i found online but i can't boot it, i tried to do a recovery installation after fixing the mbr(setup couldn't find the broken Windows xp) but it stops at 35 minutes installing drivers, i tried to see the setupapi log and it stopped on input.inf yesterday and on volume.inf today(a dozen of lines ahead), even putting diskinternals when i installed windows on the other empty partition but there were a whole bunch of lost files but no documents folder in all the user folders (desktop though was present) and now i don't know what else to do(i tried a bartPE cd but bios said it couldn't boot)
by the way i unplugged all devices exept USB mouse and keyboard (don't have PS/2 ports) and i tried disactivating all options in the bios and it didn't work so i restored system defaults
my hardware configuration is
DELL dimension E520
Intel core 2 duo
windows xp home edition (vista capable)
floppy drive
dvd rewrite
1gb ram
160 hdd
I need urgent help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks for everybody
p.s. I'm italian so excuse me for my english
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