Corrupted Hardware Profiles

My hardware profiles are messed up.

When I boot I see a choice of 2 profiles: Standard and Undocked no NIC. When I go to the Hardware Profiles screen I see 2 entries: Standard and a blank entry. The property of the blank entry shows garbage in the name, Dock ID, and Serial Number fields. The blank entry can be copied successfully. If I rename it and then exit and reenter the screen, the name is blank again. If I delete the blank entry and exit and reenter the screen, it's back. If I pick another entry and try to rename it to Undocked no NIC, I'm told that a profile with that name already exists. The most bizarre behavior occurs if I use the arrows on the right to move entries up and down: some times when I press an arrow it behaves normally, but sometimes each arrow press corrupts the name unpredictably. Sometimes when I exit the Hardware Profiles screen I get an exception.

I've obviously got some corrupted data. Any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks,
Mike

 

Sounds like serious corruption to me.

Take your XP disk and boot to the disk. When prompted choose the repair option.

Once the repair is complete. You will need to go and get all the service packs.

I hope this helps you out!