Re: XP Install

From: Peter Downes (pjtdownes_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:31:37 +0200

Hi Richard

It hangs while doing the inplace upgrade at

"Setup is being restarted.........................."

Does not progress past this. I cannot afford to lose apps.

Thanks

"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
news:OPufQpI3EHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> 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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