[captaincabbage]

Hello, Recently after running AVAST, a long list of files popped up from the virus scan. I thought they had viruses because ( And they might have) it said, file unable to scan. So I randomly selected about 200+ of the files and deleted them. Most of which were probably vital to Windows XP. After I deleted those a pop up came up and said, files have been switched with unrecognized versions, please put your windows XP cd into the cd drive to correct the problem. But instead of doing that, I hit restart from the Avast window.

After that, my computer would go black after the windows xp screen with a blue bar scrolling horizontally for the reboot. So I decided to put the windows xp disk into the computer and try to fix the problem on the boot.

When I tried to chose the repair installation for my windows from the CD, it said that it could not find the file, "asms" on the disk, repeatedly.

So I gave that up and decided to reinstall windows on the same partition but a different folder, this time "c:\windows2" rather than "c:\windows".

Well That's where I am now.

I know that I could reinstall windows on the same folder as "c:\windows"

But I am unsure whether that will delete all of my files in "my documents".

I had chose to prevent anyone else from accessing my files when my computer was working correctly a while ago so I am unable to access any of my old files using explorer. I am unaware if there is another way to access them.

My first goal is to restore my other windows, "c:\windows" but if I am unable to do that then I would like to find a way to get all of my files from my documents.


Computer:
Windows XP Pro
Intel 1.5 ghz
256mb RAM
30 gb harddrive.
1 partition with both of the OS on it.

If you need any other information I will be glad to supply it. As I am new to this kind of thing.

Thank you very much.