repair setup failed

[Joe S.]

Hello,

i had to do a repair set up of xp, when it goes to copying files during
setup it sipped right to registering components & then savving settign then
when it booted kept restarting pc. i left it for 1 day & keep restarting, i
try repair again no dice, i cant do a clean install got to many important
stuff on drive, is there anything else? i have sp3 but cd was sp2 then i did
slipstream sp3 cd try repair install no dice, Please help

thanks

 

[sandy58]

Hello,

 i had to do a repair set up of xp, when it goes to copying files during
setup it sipped right to registering components & then savving settign then
when it booted kept restarting pc. i  left it for 1 day & keep restarting, i
try repair again no dice, i cant do a clean install got to many important
stuff on drive, is there anything else? i have sp3 but cd was sp2 then i did
slipstream sp3 cd try repair install no dice, Please help

thanks

You can install XP into the virtually the same space as the "screwed"
one was using. It's a choice when installing XP. You WILL have to re-
install some stuff in the program files but stand-alone stuff will be
OK. Can you get into "safe mode"? If so go in and copy your stuff onto
a data stick/external hard drive/partition.

 

[Joe S.]

hi sandy

no i cant get into safe mode it starts to load then pc reboots,

Hello,

i had to do a repair set up of xp, when it goes to copying files during
setup it sipped right to registering components & then savving settign
then
when it booted kept restarting pc. i left it for 1 day & keep restarting,
i
try repair again no dice, i cant do a clean install got to many important
stuff on drive, is there anything else? i have sp3 but cd was sp2 then i
did
slipstream sp3 cd try repair install no dice, Please help

thanks

You can install XP into the virtually the same space as the "screwed"
one was using. It's a choice when installing XP. You WILL have to re-
install some stuff in the program files but stand-alone stuff will be
OK. Can you get into "safe mode"? If so go in and copy your stuff onto
a data stick/external hard drive/partition.

 

[Malke]

Hello,

i had to do a repair set up of xp, when it goes to copying files during
setup it sipped right to registering components & then savving settign
then
when it booted kept restarting pc. i left it for 1 day & keep restarting,
i try repair again no dice, i cant do a clean install got to many
important stuff on drive, is there anything else? i have sp3 but cd was
sp2 then i did slipstream sp3 cd try repair install no dice, Please help

If you can't do the Repair Install, then either you have hardware issues
and/or the operating system is too damaged to salvage. Either boot the
computer with a Linux Live CD (I prefer Knoppix) or pull the drive and
connect it to another working computer. USB drive enclosures or adapters
work well for this. Copy off the data. If you boot the targeted computer with
Linux, you can copy the data to an external hard drive. The advantage to
doing this is twofold: 1) you get your data; 2) if the computer won't run
with Linux you know you have hardware problems.

Assuming you can get your data off (the hard drive is viable enough to do
this), do hardware troubleshooting. Start with testing the hard drive.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

If the hardware is good, do a clean install of Windows.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows - What
you will need on-hand

Malke

 

[smlunatick]

Hello,

 i had to do a repair set up of xp, when it goes to copying files during
setup it sipped right to registering components & then savving settign then
when it booted kept restarting pc. i  left it for 1 day & keep restarting, i
try repair again no dice, i cant do a clean install got to many important
stuff on drive, is there anything else? i have sp3 but cd was sp2 then i did
slipstream sp3 cd try repair install no dice, Please help

thanks

If IE 7 / 8 and Windows Media Player 11, with all the required updates
installed, then YES the repair reinstall will fail. Windows XP and
any slipstreemed updated CDs will have only IE 6 and Windows Media
Player 9 on it. Since there is older software being installed during
the repair, Windows XP will have problems.