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Whee! Another fresh install of Windows is essentially complete, after finding that the system was borked this morning. The backup I'd made with Acronis TrueImage didn't help, either the first time I tried to restore the system (after I'd checked it with BootMed's tools and found that the boot sector appeared to be fine) or the second (after I rebuilt the MBR) or even the third (after I wiped the C partition, installed Windows XP, then restored over that when it was found to boot). Need to figure out a better backup; maybe I can image the partition with something other than TrueImage later tonight.

Meanwhile, I'm very glad I had the disc partitioned (all the other partitions are fine) AND backups on an external drive.