Hi guys,
I am very new to this so not sure exactly what your gonna need to know however I just wonder if anyone can help.

The initial problem I had was that some bright spark (me) had attempted to launch safe mode on the pc using msconfig settings. Once this had been done I could neither get into safe mode or any other mode as it would only attempt to boot into safe mode than asked me for a password which for some reason didn't seem to be the one I had set up. To get round this I slaved hard drive to other pc and changed the boot.ini file to not include safe mode booting.

Once this was done I replaced hard drive in original machine and attempted to boot up however before it managed to load up windows a blue screen flashed up and announced it was restating a reinstall of windows. I have at up to this point never tried to reinstall windows on this hard drive only a repair which was completed fine so I have no idea why this is occuring, I do not wish to reinstall windows as there is some vital data I need and programs I use on that hard drive, any help on this would be much appreciated,

by the way the computer is running xp pro.

Thx in advance for any help.