Recently had a power failure that caused a desktop computer to power off all of a sudden. When we got home to turn the computer back on, it seems that we were stuck in a rebooting loop as mentioned by someone else here.

I first booted up in Knoppix and saw that both partitions I had were recognized, and in the main hda1 partition, I could see the files just fine.

I followed the instructions in the above link by running Windows Recovery Console, running

1) chkdsk /r
2) fixboot

Rebooted, and received the following error: NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart.

Followed instructions here by using the Windoes disk to copy over new NTLDR and ntdetect.com files to the root directory. Still no good.

I booted up in Knoppix again, and now the hda1 is still recognized, but the files all have junk names. The only files with normal names are the 2 files that I copied over above. HELP! What did I do? What can be done?

*edit*

Another thread found that is VERY similar to my current problem here and here.