Well i guess its complicated i have a panasonic notebook with no internal drives except the hard disk altho i do have the external drives but apparently somthing is wrong with my registry beacse we had a power outage or something… anyways how would i either fix the registry or re-install windows XP professional beacuse i cant seem to get it to boot off the external drives. and it wont boot completely beacuse of the registry being damaged and im totally lost as to what to do if any1 could help me out i would appriciate it greatly ^^.