I'm trying to recover a WinXP installation.

Currently it simply gives me the option to boot into various Safe Modes. selecting any leads to some sort of reboot and again the prompt.

I've tried the recovery console but after doing that it stopped the error message i was getting but boot me in the safe mode cycle describe above.

My plan is to reinstall WinXP over the current WinXP. However that will delete the current user folder which is what i need to save. I figure (tell me if I'm wrong) if i put the "My Documents" folder i want in the root of my 'c' drive i should be able to install WinXP on the C Drive from there and then copy the My Documents folder to replace the system default one and all will be well again?

My problem with this plan is that apparently I don't have permissions enough to move anything on my drives. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this. I'm sure there must be a way to be able to move things around on the drives even if it won't solve my problem.