Windows XP Setup/Upgrade loops endlessly

[Bob]

This is still going on. Bumped it up to a new thread in hopes that someone
can help me break this machine out of its setup loop. It is my wife's
machine. I am beginning to think it will be easier to buy a new cheap
machine from Dell than to fix this one..............

Subject: RE: Windows XP Setup/Upgrade loops endlessly
From: Bob <[email protected]>

try this is, boot from the Windows CDROM or boot disks. Setup will
copy files to your hard drive and you will then be presented with an
option to press "R" to repair the installation using the recovery
console or install Windows. Select the option to install Windows. When
you get to the license agreement, click "agree". You will then find
yourself at a screen that has another repair option if you press "R".

Windows then copy files over and then reboot. When the system
reboots,at this point make sure you don't have the cd or bootable
floppy i nthe drives. setup will then load the GUI portion of setup.
this should hopefully then install over your previous installation,
let me know how it goes

Ok, it looked like that was going to work. The screen said it was reading
files and preparing to install. This went on until the progress bar got to
100 percent then it rebooted. Got the CD out but now it is back into the
endless loop. I can't even get back to the prompt to install Windows. It
just keeps doing what I described in my original posting. Thought we had
it there for a minute.

 

[Bob]

That seems to be exactly what my computer is doing as well, even when
I try to reinstall computer freezes at some point and have to start
all over if I get more information on how to reslove this I'll pass it
along

Thanks I would really appreciate any info that you might uncover on this.
I finally pulled the box and put it aside and configured my laptop for my
wife. I have to go and buy a USB keyboard so she will be able to use the
desk setup I have for her. I know that the computer is a fairly old box so
I will probably end up replacing it.