can't boot into window xp professional

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Hi,

I had been having a problem of sometimes a file getting corrupted (I don't
remember which file) and then I had to reboot and it seemed like xp fixed
it. But the last time I got this error (I wish I would have written down the
name of the file it said was damaged) , the computer froze. After I turned
the computer off and then on, the computer won't boot. Basically I tried to
get in using safe mode but it gets stuck at

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System 32\Drivers\MountMgr.sys

Now I was able to get into a command prompt using the windows xp cd. I
renamed the 'mountmgr.sys' file and copied the same file from another
machine, I also copied the software and config files from the
"\windows\repair\" directory.

Unfortunately this didn't do anything, still the same problem. I imagine
maybe it's having a problem not with mountmgr.sys but with the next file it
wants to work with, but that's just a guess.

Could someone guide me as to what steps I need to take to get xp to boot up?

Thanks.


.



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