reinstall of windows xp pro stuck??????

[Guest]

hi hope someone can help me here,right 1 on my lovely kids decided that
because my pc had crashed he would turn it off with the power switch on the
back of my pc,now because he did this my pc wont start in normal mode it will
only start in safe mode,so i decided to try a system restore and that didnt
work,so i decided to reinstall windows xp pro.right still with me,now it got
about 20 mins into reinstaling and my pc crashed when i finaly got it to
restart in safe mode again i got the message "set up wont work in safe mode
set up restarting pc",when it restarted it went past the splash screen and on
to a windows screen saying that "set up is restarting.....",
then it just sits there doing nothing at all i let it stay like that for 1
hour then switched my pc off,can anyone help please thx..

 

[JS]

How to do a Clean Install of Windows XP

From Michael Steven's: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
more info: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm
and: http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_installation_of_windows_xp.htm
also: http://www.bootdisk.com/

JS

 

[Guest]

I would start again rather than go round in circles.

Insert the XP CD again and ensure that you get the option to "press any key
to boot from CD". This should get you to the setup wizards and i would give
a go and trying a repair option of windows first. It could also be that
there is a hardware fault (could be the drive that is faulty)as a result of
the cold power off and thus you still may not get xp installed.

Last resort.....

Do you have a spare hard drive? You could install xp if you can onto the
new/spare hard drive and once thats up and running install the second drive
and retrieve data if needed.

Hope this may help....let me know.

 

[Guest]

ok thx i will try both your sugestions and let you know the outcome