WinXP died…

I have an aged WinXP laptop, which yesterday decided not to be able to boot anymore.
I can get it into safe mode, but restore points (while successful) don’t solve the problem.
I cannot get it into safe mode with networking.
I managed to do a HDAT run from a USB boot disk, and found a single bad sector. Apparently it hit where it hurts.

Now, I’d run a sfc /scannow , but I get an error, RPC server not running.
And I’d do a windows repair install, but the sorry piece of crap is OEM.

Any suggestions?

Malware is highly unlikely… I’ve done scans already – So less likelyhood of a thumb for suggestions in that direction :p, otherwise I’m a big spender in the thumb department. Sounds great, doesn’t it? 🙂