Using Windows XP Home and received this error and now will not boot to desktop with safe mode, last known config, etc. Used Windows XP disk to try and repair, not seeming to work. Unfortunately, when the screen said to press any key to boot from cd, I did and now when I go back into XP cd to try repair, no Windows XP Home edition listed, just partition with information of amount in it. Did I screw up? Needed to get to desktop to get files to transfer to new hard drive. Now I think they are gone. I was going to try Recovery Console but I heard that erases everything. Is that true? Need help, friend is going to kill me if I erased files.
