Pretty screwed...

[Datagg]

Pc nerds......Man I feel offended Anyways, if you cant restore the files back to original from chest, dont spend money on hiring a pc nerd, just put your xp disk in drive and rewrite windows ,dont do fresh install just reinstall. Make sure all viruses are gone before hand, make sure all past save points are erased also (for they more than likely have viruses in them also) ..........

Good luck.....to you....

[whocares]

ok.. so I'm not a nerd.. I take that for a compliment  

try all of the above tips/cleaners until you get EXE to be working..
if you don't achieve that, you'd be better of repairing/reinstalling WIN

P.S.: for the future: split your HD into 2 partitions, 1 for System/WIN, one for data; then you don't lose so much if you have to format C:
 

[Lisandro]

Fthe future: split your HD into 2 partitions, 1 for System/WIN, one for data; then you don't lose so much if you have to format C:

For me, the wiser solution  

[Evert A]

Thanks for the advice everyone, youve really been helpful, if only i could remember where i put my windows cd...oh well, the nerd (no pun intended) will fix it, im sure. You all have my sincere gratitude

[Datagg]

Thanks for the advice everyone

No problem at all, thats what we are here for...

Goood luck to you and finding your cd
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Regards,
Dan