I get a black screen saying "error loading operating system".

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He managed the Express Test in the Partition Utilities [F12]. Then I went to Microsft.com/support and found articles on how torepair my computer from my data "Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2" without losing. The 3 choices of the place where to repair Windows were: "-: partition1 [FAT] 31MB [24MB free];  C:partition2 [Unknown] 76246 MB [76245 MB free];   Unpartitioned space 16 MB. "I chose the c: [the computer said that the other 2 are too small.]  Finally, this message appeared: 'Partition is either too full, damaged, not formatted, or formatted with an incompatible file system.  To continue installing Windows, Setup must format this partition, C:Partition2 [Unknown] 76246 MB [76245 MB free]. All data will be lost. I left the repair.
Hope this can help you get my computer goes withour data loss.  Thanks a lot, a lot, Joe

Hi joesg,

We recommend that you cross check if you have followed the steps correctly to perform the repair facility.
See perform a repair Installation

If the problem persists, then we you should back up data on the hard drive by connecting it to another computer and try to reinstall Windows XP.
See How to install or upgrade to Windows XP

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