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-----Original Message-----
My computer will not load, stuck in constant loop.
Reinstalling XP Home...it did not finish, It is booting
up in safe mode (by it's own choice, I have not told it
to boot) and when it is almost finished loading in safe
mode, the message "Windows XP Setup cannot install in
safe mode", only choice is OK. Then down it goes and the
message "setup is continuing installation" and then down
it goes to boot in safe mode again. I have tried booting
from the 6 floppies that I have made - does not work. I
am ready to format hard drives and start all over...but
can't get anywhere. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time.
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Dear Patty,
I had similar problems and then the glorious idea to
refromat my HD and do a "celan (re-)install" - thats when
the real trouble started.
For about a year proud owner of a "TARGA Visionary 1900
WS" notebook PC, which is a AMD based system with WinXP
home edition preloaded. The amentioned PC worked
relatively satisfactorily, but recently it developed more
and more system freezes and other errors, usually due to
driver confliccts (of devices I had deinstalled ages ages
ago!) and I was unable to log onto the internet or create
any new dialup connections - the option presented itself
as blanked out. I tried with the help of the WinXp help
ysytem and MS support site all sorts of measures incl.
viruschecking, WinXP-rerinstallation etc., but to no
avail, things got only worse eg. that most of my
application became inaccessible, and I was still unable to
get onto the internet. In the end I decided to download
my personal files onto a zip-disk, reformat the harddisk
and to perform a "clean install" of WinXP - this however
proved to be very difficult if not impossible. I have
already wasted numerous hours with many fruitless attempts
incl. numerous reformatting and partitioning, BIOS
updating etc. and seem to go in circles, and I am on the
verge of applying physical and destructive force to the
afore mentiond PC. I'd be therefor very grateful if you
could hand onto to me any constructive suggestions how to
solve this sort of problem.
The sequence of events on my last ateempt appearing on the
PC screen was as follows:
insertion of OEM MS Windows XP Home Edition [WinXP] disk
(Targa Product Recovery CD-ROM, Mat.Nr. 1041630,
prod. key K4VFW-CMP2D-4VTYF-492TR-2KMHQ)
"setup is expecting your hardware config. ..."
[blue screen] "win setup ... " (loading setup files)
"setup starting windows"
"welcome to setup"
"to setup win press 'Enter'"
[EULA] "press 'F8' to agree"
"to create a partition on unpartioned space press 'C'"
"to setup WinXP on selected item press 'Enter'"
"format using NMTFS file sys"
[setup formatting partion]
"to setup WinXP press 'Enter'"
[EULA] "press 'F8' to agree"
"to setup WinXP on selected item
(i.e. C: partition 1 [NTFS] 20003 MB)
press 'Enter'"
"you chose to install WinXP on a partition that contains
another OS,
which might cause the other OS to function improperly ...
To continue setup using this partition press 'C'"
"setup will install WinXP on partion C: ... ...
"Press 'Enter' to continue"
"Caution: A \Windows folder already exists
that may contain a win installation ...
will be overwritten ...
All files will be deleted ..."
To use the folder and delete the existing win
installation in it, press 'L'"
"Please wait while setup examines your disk ..."
"Please wait while setup copies files"
"Please wait ... (for this or the other) ..."
"This part of setup has completed sucessfully"
[sys reboot]
"setup is inspecting ypur PC's hardware config"
"win setup"
"setup is starting win"
"welcome to setup
to setup WinXP now, press 'ENTER'"
[EULA] ...
[et da capo ad nauseam infinitum!]
variant using downloaded WinXP setup disks:
(WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.exe)
"TARGA ready for you" splash screen
"setup is inspecting ..."
"win setup"
"please insert .. setup disk #2 into drive A:"
(insertion of disk #2 + 'Enter')
"File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 7
setup cannot continue
press any key to exit."
Sincerely
Peter Mahr *
