happyfoxproductions
Welcome to the forum
What you have is a corrupted registry and i think your
C:\miniNT is your recovery partition which has some how changed to your C:\ drive
I have seen this type of error when booting into recovery console and only giving you a option of
E:\I386 or E:\miniNT or C:\miniNT and other variations
This is not going to be easy for you to fix without a fresh install of Windows. Here is a mircosoft article on how to fix a currupt registry.
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=307545you can follow this video on fixing corrupt registry
What I suggest is boot into a preinstalled environment with something like
puppy linux, this is a free app to download and use. burn and boot to this cd and see if you can see your data on that drive. If you can see your data then backup what you need to a external hard drive. while you in that preinstalled environment where is your data? whats the drive letter? also try a check the
boot.ini file to see what it looks like.
This is a sample of a default Boot.ini file from a Windows XP Professional computer.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
another option that might be open to you is a reapir install
To start the "Repair Install" follow below:
1) Boot from CD-ROM Drive (Press any key to boot from CD...)
2) Wait for setup to load files, when the first screen comes up press "ENTER" to continue with setup.
3) Press F8 to continue (EULA Agreement)
4) Now select the installation you wish to do the repair on, usually it will be "C:\WINDOWS "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" but in your case ti will be different.
5) Press "R" to begin the Repair on this installation.
6) Setup will then check drive c:\ and then delete system files, after this it will then copy the new files and begin setup.
7) During setup you will be prompted to enter certain information. As this is a "Repair" you shouldnt have to enter a product key.
8.) After setup is complete, reboot and see how things work.
NOTE: After setup is complete you will have to reinstall Service Pack 2 if its installed now, and most important when setup is complete it may ask you to create user accounts, SKIP this step so it will not remove the accounts your currently have
Important Note: When prompted as to if you want to partition DO NOT PRESS ENTER HERE, THIS IS WHERE YOU PRESS R FOR REPAIR OF THIS INSTALLATION, PRESSING ENTER HERE WILL REPLACE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM AND ALL USER ACCOUNTS
if all else fails and you have your backed up your data then just do a fresh install
