HD seems to have forgotten what it is

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so u were running windows xp no problems and when u rebooted it starting loading it?

you must of started a reinstall at some point and its finding that on the mbr.

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no, never started a reinstall. several reboots and safe mode startups were attempted before it got to this point.

going to try a restart and see if I can get some more accurate error messages for you guys