Sounds to me like this could be fixed without a format.. Do you have an xp disk at all? If you do boot to the disk and do a repair when you get in hit r for repair. then type the number of your windows usually its 1 and hit enter with a blank password to get in. When you get the blank prompt type chkdsk /r and let it do its work... Try this until you dont get fixed one more more errors and try to boot again. This is not a format and generally is my first step before i do a format...
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