Look in the C Drive under Documents & Settings to see if you can find your old user account.
Your old files should be stored in that user account.
I had some problem with spyware, so I rebooted my pc last night. When it turned back on it said windows could not start up because I had to install
<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
It also said I should put the windows xp recovery in.
I did this and now I have ended up with two installations, one new one without any files and the old, which still won't start up. I want to access the old one because of all my files. What can I do?

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