Windows XP repair failed

[DerickB]

I upgraded my computer from ME to XP about 6 months ago, and have had some
problems with it lately, so I decided to do a repair install. However, it had
a hard time reading some files on the CD, so I told it to ignore it, and kept
on going. The install failed at some point in time, and since that time it
wants to do an upgrade again, and fails with the following blue screen:

Setup cannot set the required windows XP configuration info. This indicates
an internal setup error. Contact your system administrator.

Whether I tell it to continue with the upgrade or tell it to do a new
(repair) install, it ends up at the same error message. I do not want to do a
new install, since that will affect all my applications and/or data.

Is there any way to tell it there is no upgrade (ME to XP) or to clean it
up, so a normal repair install can be done?

 

[Rey Santos]

Error Message: Setup Cannot Set the Required Windows XP Configuration
Information
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316425

 

[DerickB]

Although that seems to give the answer (I had already found it), there is no
way to get into windows anymore, it is stuck in the upgrade/repair cycle and
will not go any further. Since it already did run previously, I know it is
not hardware incompatibilities, but even so I have removed all the PCI cards
in the system, and it still gives me the same problem.
Thank you for the info, but that did not help in this case.

Derick Bartelings

 

[DerickB]

Note. This seems to happen after it saves the configuration. (after copying
all the files) It seems to have a problem "setting" that specific
configuration. Even when I tell it to do a new repair installation it comes
up with the same problem.

 

[FrankFL]

Best bet at this point would be to zero the drive and start from scratch.