Re: Computer not rebooting

Matt wrote:

> Right this all started last night when I got home, I simply pressed
> the button on my computer so it would come out of hibernation however
> it did not.
> Instead it went to the BIOS screen, I exited and then it restarted
> and went
> to the BIOS screen.
>
> It did this a few times before I found my reboot disk and put it in
> and told it to restore the windows setting to those that where there
> when I first got
> the machine. After this it told me that the computer had not been
> shut down properly and therefore would I like to start in Safe Mode,
> Previously Known
> working setting, or normally. I tired all of them, all resulting in a
> blank screen and no start up.
>
> After that I tired something that has worked before. You see I have
> just come back from holiday and there are a lot of snaps now on that
> computer, ergo I would rather keep the files rather than starting a
> fresh, everything else is pretty much expendable aside from them.
>
> Thus I was going to load up a second windows, open it in safe mode,
> take the files from the pervious windows (which isn't working) and
> transfer them to my back up hard drive and then I would do a complete
> factory settings reboot.
> However it isn't working this time. The windows is not installing, it
> just
> seems to have stopped at 34 minutes remaining while installing
> devices. It has been like that for an hour now with no change.


Setup stops responding with 34 minutes remaining -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828267&Product=winxp

Malke
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