Re: XP Install

From: R. C. White (rc_at_corridor.net)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:26:46 -0600

Hi, Peter.

I'm not David, but my recommendation is to boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and
either do a clean install or, if you want to preserve installed applications
and data, an "in-place upgrade" as described in this KB article:

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q315341

If I've misunderstood your dilemma, please post back. The beginning of the
thread has scrolled off the server, apparently.

RC 

-- 
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Peter Downes" <pjtdownes@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:OY5bn2H3EHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> David, The user had some problems with the graphics card and disabled it 
> in
> XP. He could not recover from this stupid mistake. He gave it to a
> technician who decided to over-install. This aborted half way. I was given
> the problem to sort out. I have recovered a corrupt boot.ini with bootcfg. 
> I
> have repaired various file system problems on the disk. I have now 
> disabled
> all unnecessary hardware, and am trying to continue the previous upgrade.
> This upgrade just seems to hang at the mentioned point.
>
>
> "David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:98186C3D-F208-4366-913B-071426BF3D18@microsoft.com...
>> Peter, Let me ask you a question first, what happened to the previous XP
>> Proffesional install? Then maybe I can answer your question.
>>
>> "Peter Downes" wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to reinstall an XP Professional machine that had been
>> > interrupted halfway thru a prevoius reinstall.
>> >
>> > It gets to "Setup is being restarted..............................." 
>> > and
>> > then seems to hang.
>> >
>> > Any ideas on how to get past this?

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