Once you get this sorted out it is critically important that you have a second hard drive installed in your computer and then install a copy of either Ghost (by Symantec) or True Drive (by Acronis). Either of these will allow you to make a complete backup of your hard drive, and in the event of a hard drive failure you simply throw away the bad drive, plug a new one in, boot to a floppy and restore everything to the way it was. I do this with all 5 computers at our house, and the last time a hard drive died on my wife's machine I had her up and running in about 30 minutes, including the time it took to physically install the new drive.
Oh yeah, you have to do your backups REGULARLY too. I do them every couple of days.
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