@ aloho, then i think its f***ed man... weird, but nothing can be done about it now. So the only option you have now, is manually restoration. sorry for that man, your one of the few... First download this: replacer then take three files from your XP cd. ntoskrnl.ex_, sysdm.cp_ and msgina.dl_. these files are cabbed, but can be extracted with winrar or 7zip. Then you open up the replacer program you downloaded, and browse to the first file, ntoskrnl.exe in the system32 directory. select it and then browse to the unpacked ntoskrnl.exe. Press replace, and your done. Do this for all three files, which are all found in the system32 directory, just replace them with the newly extracted ones. Then reboot, and your done. let me know if this helps man, and again, sorry for the trouble. Damian666 @srgsng25 with all respect man, but i really dont get it, why do you ask me?