Spent the better part of today helping somone at R*'s school recover their computer. It had frozen halfway through a service pack install and would no longer boot-up - fatal error blue screen after agp440.sys loaded. Safe Mode and Last Known Good were useless. Discovered the joys of recovery mode but eventually realised that it only allows you to muck with the Windows directory and nothing else; useless for data recovery. Tried making an MS-DOS boot disk with an
NTFS driver from sysinternals but didn't work for me. Eventually just reinstalled XP using the repair option and it worked fine. No data loss thank goodness. Just imagine the worldwide waste of time spent getting PC's to work correctly.