welcome cable

you need to follow the steps here
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

you can use boot discs to get up or any winxp cd.
download xp boots from here
http://www.bootdisk.com/

you can slave the drive to any xp machine that is NTFS and copy the files.

best of luck

be sure to print out the help steps from microsoft.