hive corrupted...

Hi,

I have a dell 600m laptop with XP home. It is not booting.
Re-installing the OS is my last option since I have some important data
in it.

I have tried several of the tricks online, but none of them work
because the entire c:\windows
directory is not seen. Tricks include using recovery console and
replacing the 4 hives with the ones in repair directory (not working
because c:\windows is not seen on startup of recovery console, only c:
is seen). Also, commands like cd windows, md tmp etc. do not work. I
get the message "access denied".


Does any of u know a place in Dallas where they will diagonize laptop
issue related things at a reasonable price? If any of u is an expert
on such things, please let me know if you have any ideas on how to fix
this.

Thanks,

Arvind

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