Windows XP home edition

From: Charles Smith (squareknot6_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:30:47 -0700

A buddy of mine bought a new Dell Inspirion 5100 with the
XP OS and didn't hear about the update process being
important. Guess what he got Sasser. I removed it the
first time and was in the process of updating his OS when
it struck again right in the middle of the installing the
securtiy patches. Now the operating system will not come
up in either regular or safe modes. Am I screwed and will
have to reinstall the system and loose all his STUFF as he
calls it?