need to force a repair installation in xp

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I've got a problem...XP keeps restarting whilst booting up. I've tried to use safe mode, recovery consol you name it but it still crashes and reboots each time I'm doing this. I went to do a repair installation and the option doesn't come up after the licesnce aggreement bit

So I need to know how to force a repair installation

Any ideas please.

Stefan
 
Hi Stefan

What options do you see? You may have an OEM CD, which will only perform a
'clean' install.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I've got a problem...XP keeps restarting whilst booting up. I've tried to
use safe mode, recovery consol you name it but it still crashes and reboots
each time I'm doing this. I went to do a repair installation and the option
doesn't come up after the licesnce aggreement bit.
|
| So I need to know how to force a repair installation.
|
| Any ideas please..
|
| Stefan
 
I do have an OEM disk but whilst trying to figure all this out I popped in a spare HDD and loaded XP on again. It let me do a repair installation to this disk as I'd used it before for XP
This worked but doesn't solve my problem of getting the original HDD setup to wor
 
Hi

You've managed to perform a 'Repair' install with an OEM CD? So, what
options did you get then and which hard disk was the OEM CD used on first?

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I do have an OEM disk but whilst trying to figure all this out I popped in
a spare HDD and loaded XP on again. It let me do a repair installation to
this disk as I'd used it before for XP.
| This worked but doesn't solve my problem of getting the original HDD setup
to work
|
 
I built the pc with a smaller HDD but then changed it to a larger HDD and new motherboard. This first HDD was the one I popped back in so it was the same OEM CD used in both set ups. I only popped the original back in so that I could be certain that I could access all the data should I need to. (don't worry, not intending to run two pc's from one disk ).

The repair option came up after the licensce aggreement and pressing F8. Going back to the HDD that I was using when it all went wrong, when I get to this stage this option doesn't exists only to perform a fresh installation

when trying to start windows it does flash up a blue screen but of course I cannot read it as it very quickly restarts

Is there a way of manually going in and switching it to not reboot so that I could look at the error message ?
 
Hi

To stop the PC rebooting, you will have to access XP in either Normal or
Safe Mode. If you can't do you that, then, AFAIK there isn't another way.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I built the pc with a smaller HDD but then changed it to a larger HDD and
new motherboard. This first HDD was the one I popped back in so it was the
same OEM CD used in both set ups. I only popped the original back in so that
I could be certain that I could access all the data should I need to. (don't
worry, not intending to run two pc's from one disk ).
|
| The repair option came up after the licensce aggreement and pressing F8.
Going back to the HDD that I was using when it all went wrong, when I get to
this stage this option doesn't exists only to perform a fresh installation.
|
| when trying to start windows it does flash up a blue screen but of course
I cannot read it as it very quickly restarts.
|
| Is there a way of manually going in and switching it to not reboot so that
I could look at the error message ?
 
OK,

well thankyou for giving me some of your time, I appreciate it. If it is a damaged file associated with the boot process (which to me seems highly likely) then maybe I can perform a minor miricle by using the smaller HDD and setting it up as it was with all the software and all on the larger one and copying over some files.... What do I have to loose...

One last thought/question, is it possible to work on the registry of the damaged XP HDD when it is set up as a slave HDD ?
 
Hi

If it is the boot process causing the problem, I'm not sure if working on
the Registry will help. The fault may lie with one the boot process files:

Ntldr
Ntdetect.com
Ntoskrnl.exe

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| OK,
|
| well thankyou for giving me some of your time, I appreciate it. If it is
a damaged file associated with the boot process (which to me seems highly
likely) then maybe I can perform a minor miricle by using the smaller HDD
and setting it up as it was with all the software and all on the larger one
and copying over some files.... What do I have to loose....
|
| One last thought/question, is it possible to work on the registry of the
damaged XP HDD when it is set up as a slave HDD ?
 
Sorry to ask another question..

If it is the boot process, can I copy these files back to the damaged HDD from either the xp CD, the smaller HDD, or from a bootable XP floppy disk ?
 
Hi

They can be copied from the XP CD, if you can access that drive.

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| Sorry to ask another question...
|
| If it is the boot process, can I copy these files back to the damaged HDD
from either the xp CD, the smaller HDD, or from a bootable XP floppy disk ?
 
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