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[Samantha Cornell]

In the event that Duane's advice still doesn't get you up and running  
(it should though), try cloning your hard-drive, instead of just drag  
and dropping your system folder.  You may find that a cloned drive  
works better for you anyway, since you would then have everything you  
had before, in exactly the same spot.  Once your machine is repaired,  
you would simply reverse the process and continue on with minimal  
interruption.

For more info, try this article:

http://www.atpm.com/10.05/cloning.shtml