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Originally Posted by Rock Bottom
At worst, you can take your hard drive out of your actual computer and hook it up to someone else's (a friend's, or an alternate comp) as a secondary hard drive, or a slave. Then take whatever shit you want off of it, and either store it somewhere safe or on that comp. CDs and shit work, but it may take a while.
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That wouldn't work, you secondary drive can't have a partion to load up the OS.
It sounds like something is wrong with your system files. If you still have the XP CD then try putting it in your drive and restarting your computer. Depending on what type of computer you have, press the "Delete", "F1", "F2", "F3", or "F5" buttons constantly until it loads up your BIOs. Just keep pressing right after it loads.
After you've done that, search through them until you find an option for "First Boot Device" (it will read similar to that). Change it to your CD Drive or whatever drive you put the XP CD in. Save and exit out.
It should continue to load from here and you will get a black screen that almost looks as though you're in DOS. It will ask you if you want to do a repair, say "NO" (forget which button, I believe ESC but it will say on the bottom) and let it continue. It will then again ask you if you want to repair. This is where you want to say "YES". Press "R" and let it go.
You can then enter BIOs again and switch it back if you would like or just take the CD out of the drive. (I would switch it back personally, probably to Hard Drive but that is just because I keep CDs in the drive all time and it could cause them to load when I started. Pretty stupid.)
If that doesn't work come back here and tell me. If you can, write down the error if you're still getting it. Good luck.