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severdhed:
well, i dont know if the acronis recovery disk is different than the standard acronis boot disk, but here is what i would do:

buy a new hard drive and install it as a second drive in the computer
boot from the acronis boot CD and choose "clone disk"

walk through the process to clone your old,defective disk to the new one, it will probably have a bunch of errors, tell it to ignore them.  this will take a long time (probably several hours)

once this is done, remove the bad drive, then boot from the windows xp CD, go to the recovery console, and do the chkdsk /r again.  this time it should not have any problem repairing the file structure.  once that is done, you can hopefully boot back up into windows, assuming that your system files werent too far gone.  you may be missing some things here and there, but more than likely the majority of your stuff should be intact

i have used this method dozens of times when people bring me PCs with problems similar to yours...it usually works
Flake:
Thanks dude, this seems like my best option so far. 

Questions:

1.  Installing the second drive - all I have to do is install the hardware component?  What I mean is I dont have to have windows up and running for this to occur?  The reason I ask is I cant obviously boot into windows so I just want to clarify that all I have to do is  add hardware and the pc wll automatically detect it.

2.  The Acronis software - never used it before but I assume I can try using this software and if for whatever reason it doesnt give me a "clone" option I can abort at any time without already starting the process of wiping my hard drive clean?  I dont want to get into the process and then have no way of reverting back.
RayB:
UH, you definitely add a harddrive with the POWER OFF, so obviously no Windows running.
lanman31337:
Let me know what the blue screen is.  I need the 0x000000, just the first one, and if it's inaccessible boot device, page fault in non paged area, etc.. please.
severdhed:
yeah, shut the PC off and connect the second drive.  if you are using IDE drives, make sure the jumpers are set properly.  i dont know what is on the acronis disk you have, if you are worried, you could always disconnect your old hard drive and boot from the acronis disk to see what it does. 
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