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windows XP service Pack 2 won't boot complaining a file is missing or corrupted

If this is an ORIGINAL XP system (i.e., it came with XP preinstalled), that means it is at least 10 years old, and if it still has the original hard drive in it, most likely, this is filesystem corrupted from a failing drive -- and if that is the case,there will be very little you can do about it, as no one markets XP anymore.

 

When it was up and running, you could go to Warez-BB.org, the Apps section, and search for XP ISO file images.

 

IF you found one, then presuming you had access to a working PC, you could then have download one of those (using a working PC), create install media from the download (using a CD), and then boot your PC from that and do a fresh install of XP.

 

But ... Warez-BB has been down for a week now, and there is no telling when they will be back up ... and although we sometimes have Windows images here, we don't have anything that old.

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