Ron, answer to you questions below.

I installed the second XP on the partition called storage (F:)
I think I also re installed office (word excel etc)
I did manages to copy some stuff from C:
The coursework is on Word, I'll keep trying to located it and look at your
suggested link.
Thanks for the advise
"Ron Sommer" wrote:

> Where did the reinstall put the Windows files?
> Did the second system install to F: ?
> Did you reinstall software also?
>
> Do you know if the coursework is Word files?
> If you can locate the files, you may need to take ownership of the files.
> http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership
>
> You may need to backup your data and do a clean install of XP.
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> Ronald Sommer
>
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> : This is a long one - i have a 80Gig hard drive that's been partitioned XP
> was
> : on C: and the other side was F: called storage. Some time ago I had a
> virus
> : or something that I couldn't get rid of, so I ended up reinstalling
> windows
> : XP - when I start the computer now it gives me 2 operating systems which
> has
> : been fine.All it means is that you select which operating system you want
> to
> : use at start up.
> : This has worked well for quite a while until I ran registry cleaner, which
> : raised some issues which I deleted (registry cleaner comes with a restore
> : feature so I thought if i deleted something I shouldn't I could get it
> back)
> : After these deletions my antivirus program would not longer work, so I
> when
> : back to the restore feature and restored - with one major problem - I
> : restored to a date which was October 05 and not october 06.
> : Now when I start the system and choose the operating system, it's seems to
> : have restored to a time before that system even exsisted so it just gives
> me
> : a windows screen and nothing else, I've tried Ctrl, Alt,Del nothing works.
> : I have managed to start the system on the original operating system and
> : found the antivirus, ran it and cleaned whatever was wrong with it , so I
> can
> : get into the computer, but I've lost my Daughters college coursework which
> is
> : still in there I think, I hope.
> : I'm sorry that this so long but I thought that I'd give as much
> information
> : as possible.
> : Can anybody help?
> : A month ago I purchased Winantivirus (I must add I also have registry
> cleaner)
> : G
>
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