I cant get windows to let me back in

[walleye]

Hi I am not sure what happened when I was going thru System Recovery
but...
I am trying to fix a brother in laws computer after he crashed it and
it kept locking up. He did not make any xp recovery disks,That seems to
be happing a lot because mfg of computers never give ya a hard copy of
operating system and if it crashes you are screwed.Well that is what
happened and I could not fix it so I went to system recovery and
everything was working good it went thru it without a hitch until the
end.
The windows recovery said windows reinstall has completed and I went
and named his computer after setting up the time zone and when I got to
thankyou screen and finsih I hit the finish button and waited for the
system to restart but it never did.
It was not locked up it just would not go any further .So I decided it
would not hurt much to restart the computer but all it did was go back
to the same screen and no further.I restarted it again and this time
after about another 30 minutes of waiting it came to a black screen and
said this
Windows message:
The system is not fully installed please run setup again
But it would only go to this black screen and show the same message
again and will not go to windows no matter what I did
I cant fix it if it wont let me back into windows
CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME???

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am not sure what happened when I was going thru System Recovery
but...

I am trying to fix a brother in laws computer after he crashed it
and it kept locking up. He did not make any xp recovery disks,That
seems to be happing a lot because mfg of computers never give ya a
hard copy of operating system and if it crashes you are
screwed.

Not entirely true. Most computer manufacturers will sell you the actual
operating system installation media at purchase. The default for many
is recovery CD/DVDs and/or partition -> which is a horrible idea and if
there were more educated users - it probably would stop being the
'default'...

Well that is what happened and I could not fix it so I went
to system recovery and everything was working good it went thru it
without a hitch until the end.

So this is a hard disk partition implemented system recovery?

The windows recovery said windows reinstall has completed and I went
and named his computer after setting up the time zone and when I
got to thankyou screen and finish I hit the finish button and
waited for the system to restart but it never did.
Suck...

It was not locked up it just would not go any further .So I decided
it would not hurt much to restart the computer but all it did was
go back to the same screen and no further.I restarted it again and
this time after about another 30 minutes of waiting it came to a
black screen and said this
Windows message:
The system is not fully installed please run setup again
But it would only go to this black screen and show the same message
again and will not go to windows no matter what I did
I cant fix it if it wont let me back into windows

As the computer manufacturer (in accordance with the order) did not
include another way of recovery (and this would be an OEM copy/license)
you would need to contact the manufacturer for assistance. They have
to provide you a way to restore the system to the purchased state
at the time of the sale.

CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME???

Hopefully the system manufacturer can. Otherwise - your best bet is
to obtain a copy of a generic OEM Windows XP CD and use it with the
product key that is probably stuck to the computer somewhere.

 

[walleye]

walleye wrote:-
I am not sure what happened when I was going thru System Recovery
but...

I am trying to fix a brother in laws computer after he crashed it
and it kept locking up. He did not make any xp recovery disks,That
seems to be happing a lot because mfg of computers never give ya a
hard copy of operating system and if it crashes you are
screwed.-

Not entirely true. Most computer manufacturers will sell you th
actual
operating system installation media at purchase. The default for many
is recovery CD/DVDs and/or partition - which is a horrible idea and if
there were more educated users - it probably would stop being the
'default'...
-
Well that is what happened and I could not fix it so I went
to system recovery and everything was working good it went thru it
without a hitch until the end.-

So this is a hard disk partition implemented system recovery?
-
The windows recovery said windows reinstall has completed and I went
and named his computer after setting up the time zone and when I
got to thankyou screen and finish I hit the finish button and
waited for the system to restart but it never did.-

Suck...
-
It was not locked up it just would not go any further .So I decided
it would not hurt much to restart the computer but all it did was
go back to the same screen and no further.I restarted it again and
this time after about another 30 minutes of waiting it came to a
black screen and said this
Windows message:
The system is not fully installed please run setup again
But it would only go to this black screen and show the same message
again and will not go to windows no matter what I did
I cant fix it if it wont let me back into windows-

As the computer manufacturer (in accordance with the order) did not
include another way of recovery (and this would be an OE
copy/license)
you would need to contact the manufacturer for assistance. They have
to provide you a way to restore the system to the purchased state
at the time of the sale.
-
CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME??? -

Hopefully the system manufacturer can. Otherwise - your best bet is
to obtain a copy of a generic OEM Windows XP CD and use it with the
product key that is probably stuck to the computer somewhere.

I tried an OEM windows disk from a dell computer but when I tried t
install windows from it I got it to start downloading the system file
then it stopped and said it could not find a NTLDR dll file and faile
to continue install
I could not load the NTLDR at all even from a floppy disk
So it would not install x

 

[Shenan Stanley]

walleye wrote:
I am not sure what happened when I was going thru System Recovery
but...

I am trying to fix a brother in laws computer after he crashed it
and it kept locking up. He did not make any xp recovery disks,That
seems to be happing a lot because mfg of computers never give ya a
hard copy of operating system and if it crashes you are
screwed.-


Well that is what happened and I could not fix it so I went
to system recovery and everything was working good it went thru it
without a hitch until the end.-


The windows recovery said windows reinstall has completed and I
went and named his computer after setting up the time zone and
when I got to thankyou screen and finish I hit the finish button and
waited for the system to restart but it never did.-


It was not locked up it just would not go any further .So I decided
it would not hurt much to restart the computer but all it did was
go back to the same screen and no further.I restarted it again and
this time after about another 30 minutes of waiting it came to a
black screen and said this
Windows message:
The system is not fully installed please run setup again
But it would only go to this black screen and show the same message
again and will not go to windows no matter what I did
I cant fix it if it wont let me back into windows


CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME??? -

I tried an OEM windows disk from a dell computer but when I tried to
install windows from it I got it to start downloading the system
files then it stopped and said it could not find a NTLDR dll file
and failed to continue install
I could not load the NTLDR at all even from a floppy disk
So it would not install xp

Unfortunately - I said 'generic OEM'. Dell may/may not be a 'generic OEM'
installation CD. It may be 'BIOS locked' and firther customized to install
on Dell hardware - even certain Dell hardware only. It can be 'hacked' -
per se - but it would be a pain in the butt.

Have you thought there might be defective hardware involved and ran memory
and hard disk tests?

 

[walleye]

Shenan Stanley Wrote:-
walleye wrote:
I am not sure what happened when I was going thru System Recovery
but...

I am trying to fix a brother in laws computer after he crashed it
and it kept locking up. He did not make any xp recovery disks,That
seems to be happing a lot because mfg of computers never give ya a
hard copy of operating system and if it crashes you are
screwed.-
-
Not entirely true. Most computer manufacturers will sell you the
actual operating system installation media at purchase. The default
for many is recovery CD/DVDs and/or partition - which is a horrible
idea and if there were more educated users - it probably would
stop being the 'default'...-

Well that is what happened and I could not fix it so I went
to system recovery and everything was working good it went thru it
without a hitch until the end.-
-
So this is a hard disk partition implemented system recovery?-

The windows recovery said windows reinstall has completed and I
went and named his computer after setting up the time zone and
when I got to thankyou screen and finish I hit the finish button and
waited for the system to restart but it never did.-
-
Suck...-

It was not locked up it just would not go any further .So I decided
it would not hurt much to restart the computer but all it did was
go back to the same screen and no further.I restarted it again and
this time after about another 30 minutes of waiting it came to a
black screen and said this
Windows message:
The system is not fully installed please run setup again
But it would only go to this black screen and show the same message
again and will not go to windows no matter what I did
I cant fix it if it wont let me back into windows
-
As the computer manufacturer (in accordance with the order) did not
include another way of recovery (and this would be an OEM
copy/license) you would need to contact the manufacturer for
assistance. They have to provide you a way to restore the system
to the purchased state at the time of the sale.-

CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME??? -
-
Hopefully the system manufacturer can. Otherwise - your best bet
is to obtain a copy of a generic OEM Windows XP CD and use it with
the product key that is probably stuck to the computer somewhere.--

walleye wrote:-
I tried an OEM windows disk from a dell computer but when I tried to
install windows from it I got it to start downloading the system
files then it stopped and said it could not find a NTLDR dll file
and failed to continue install
I could not load the NTLDR at all even from a floppy disk
So it would not install xp-

Unfortunately - I said 'generic OEM'. Dell may/may not be a 'generic
OEM'
installation CD. It may be 'BIOS locked' and firther customized to
install
on Dell hardware - even certain Dell hardware only. It can be 'hacked'
-
per se - but it would be a pain in the butt.

Have you thought there might be defective hardware involved and ran
memory
and hard disk tests?

I did a hard drive test and that was one of the 1st things I did before
my last resort of system recovery
And it said everything was fine with the hard drive
Is there a way to get me back into windows so I can get past the error
message??