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To answer your last question, you should be able to access your data with the drive set as Slave. But, it looks like the main problem is a corrupted registry entry. Hard to say why - mem, ps, or hd but it happened. If you want to fix it you'll have to take the long route to restore your system to an earlier restore point. You'll need 7 floppies, 6 for the boot disks and 1 for the batch files. You need to search the MS Knowledge Base for the exact error, I don't have the article numbers here at home. Then you'll need to find the link within the correct article that will let you download a file to create the boot floppies. They're different for XP and XP w/SP1. Follow the instructions to the letter. I can't explain it better except to add make sure you know how to execute a batch file, i.e. at a command prompt type - Batch "filename.ext". You'll understand after you read the article. I've had to do it twice on office computers. Hope it helps.
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