Put the XP CD in the drive and boot to it. THen press R to enter Recovery Console when you have the option to.

Now type cd system32\config

ren system system.old
cd \
cd windows\repair
copy system c:\windows\system32\config

Exit

Your computer will restart

See if this helps

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