stopping XP reinstall

My customer has a Windows XP Media Center 2005 machine which developed
a BSOD as it was booting past the Windows splash screen. At least it
could still boot into Safe Mode. After attempting several diagnostics
(including perusing memory dumps from a month ago, no recent ones
created), I decided to attempt a repair install from the CD. After
copying files, it rebooted, and before getting to the installation
screen, the BSOD appeared again. (STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,
etc.))

Now it cannot boot into safe mode, as it gives an error message that
Windows Setup cannot run in Safemode.

I have a PE disk that I can use to access the files -- which ones do I
need to delete so XP Setup does not restart? Then I could boot into
Safe Mode again, and continue the attempts to repair this beast.
.

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