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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
It's proably either nasty virus/malware (which caused your desktop to freeze), or bad/damaged sectors on your harddisk caused by the hard reset leading to booting problems. Personally I think it's the harddrive issue.
Common advice is to find your WinXP CD and get into recovery console and run chkdsk /r
Then if that doesn't work then use the WinXP CD to do a repair install.
Personally I prefer to put the harddrive into another computer (or just have another operating system installed on another harddrive or paritition of the current computer) and boot into that. From there I run antivirus/antimalware on the bad drive and just use the error checking application (goto the drive in My Computer, properties, tools) on the bad harddrive to detect and repair bad sectors.
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Professional help is on the way but I figured I'd try a few things in the mean time.
I'm running a chkdsk /r now. What are the consequences of performing a repair install if the chkdsk /r yields nothing?