Hope someone can help. I am not computer savvy:

I have a HP laptop (Omnibook 6100). It was running NT4.0 (workstation). Before I 
upgraded to XP Pro SP1, I hade to clean my registry. Of course I made a back up of 
the entire registry first and than cleaned up. After installing XP I hade some problems 
(problably due to wrongly cleaning some entries in the registry). Luckely (!) I had 
a back up of the registry and could do the whole thing again: restore the registry 
and run the XP upgrade again.

I know I was stupid: I restored my NT registry over my current XP installation!!!!!!!!!!!.

Now I cannot boot up my laptop anymore. I still can open the boot (Esc. during start) 
screen for selection of safe mode etc. but it does not react to any selection. It 
start Windows (XP) for half a second but failes immediately and restarts automatically, 
etc.

Of course I tried to reboot from CD or even boot floppies. I still can have excess 
to this menu (after F2 during start). It seems however it does not detect/react or 
to ignore my selections: neither CDROM nor Other Device (floppy) is reacting.

I hope there is some way to get the laptop running again (in whatever mode) so I 
can start (parallel) reinstalling or recovering data. I would very much like to save 
my data currently on the HD.

Anybody any suggestion?

Thanks a lot,
John

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