boot up problem

[Fox]

at boot up this is what is displayed

Searching floppy boot record: not found
Searching IDE-0 boot record: ok

then below it, it says:
NTLDR is missing
press any key to restart

so i looked at the microsoft site, and it said to use a 98 bootup disk up to copy sys.com to C:

now when i boot it up it shows the Windows 98 screen and then sits there and does nothing with only access to dos. also when i press F8, its not the XP menu anymore, but Windows 98.
ah man i screwed up this time

i have some stuff on my hard drive that i need, im currently using a 2.1 gb hard drive now (lol) and theres little space left, so can't transfer any files over. please help
thanks

 

[dijital]

well u could do it the long way if you have another hard drive. you can copy all your necessary files over to the extra hdd using the dos prompt.