When in doubt repair your Toshiba XP laptop with Windows 2000

Had an interesting run in with XP Home today. We started early this morning and wound up healed around 5:30pm. Trying to replace corrupted files on a laptop is nightmare and this bad dream was further enhanced by not having the original restore disks. Please find your important software and put it in a safe place. Ended up using a Windows 2000 upgrade disk and ran an install on top of the XP Home partition. Hey, both are based on the NT5 kernel. Guess what? It worked! No data was lost and the missing files were re-written into the original OS installation. At least we now know that it works on late model Toshiba laptops. If you think this sounds like some kind of cyber spell, the voodoo chicken dance we did as it booted was wayyy over the edge! Ahhhh, Windows. Amazing...

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