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I'm sure that this is getting to be old by now. But I have read several posts and tried several things and I'm still in this darn loop nightmare
I'm attempting a repair installation of XP Pro
Setup gets to installing devices, and shows 35 minutes remaining. The screen flickers for a moment, then shortly after hard drive activity stops.
I've disabled the onboard video and switched to a PCI video card, which didn't help
I've disabled everything that can be disabled in the BIOS, with no change in the loop
I tried using F8 and starting Windows normally, which starts the whole loop over again
I tried F8 and using the last known good config, which starts the loop over
I tried F8 and safe mode, to which I'm told setup cannot continue in safe mode and will restart
The last line of C:\Windows\setuplog.txt reads - d:\xpsp1\ntsetup\syssetup\syspnp.c,2741,,SETUP: Entering InstallEnumeratedDevices(
Drive D is listed as \Device\CDRom
The boot.ini read
[boot loader
timeout=
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW
[operating system
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetec
The system loaded before we started this whole deal, it just had a problem installing a printer driver. That's when the user decided to attempt a repair install.
So is there a way to stop setup from running so I can get back to a working Windows? Or is there something that I've missed to get out of loop hell? Wiping the drive and starting fresh is something that I would really really like to avoid if at all possible
Thanks and regards
I'm attempting a repair installation of XP Pro
Setup gets to installing devices, and shows 35 minutes remaining. The screen flickers for a moment, then shortly after hard drive activity stops.
I've disabled the onboard video and switched to a PCI video card, which didn't help
I've disabled everything that can be disabled in the BIOS, with no change in the loop
I tried using F8 and starting Windows normally, which starts the whole loop over again
I tried F8 and using the last known good config, which starts the loop over
I tried F8 and safe mode, to which I'm told setup cannot continue in safe mode and will restart
The last line of C:\Windows\setuplog.txt reads - d:\xpsp1\ntsetup\syssetup\syspnp.c,2741,,SETUP: Entering InstallEnumeratedDevices(
Drive D is listed as \Device\CDRom
The boot.ini read
[boot loader
timeout=
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW
[operating system
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetec
The system loaded before we started this whole deal, it just had a problem installing a printer driver. That's when the user decided to attempt a repair install.
So is there a way to stop setup from running so I can get back to a working Windows? Or is there something that I've missed to get out of loop hell? Wiping the drive and starting fresh is something that I would really really like to avoid if at all possible
Thanks and regards