Bootup recycling

Following a reinstall of XP Home I get a bootup to XP Home then it goes to Setup is being restarted.........

Have tried to boot into Safe Mode but it won't, it just keeps recycling between XP Home and Setup is being restarted.

I have done a Repair but that hasn't helped.

Roy

 

Have tried that but it only takes me to XP Setup again with the options to Repair/Re-install.

 

Hi Roy,
Is there any information or message about why it is going to restart in the wording before "Setup is restarting ".

Remove any added hardware, PCI cards, USB connections, printers, etc and try running setup again.

Windows would probably check, but do you have plenty of free space on the harddrive?

You could run the HDD manufacturer's utilities on the drive. If you can afford to format, use the HDD manufacturer's utilities.

If you are using an XP CD that is pre-SP1 there will be a size limitation of 137Mb. Partition the drive to to sizes smaller than 130Mb or make a slipstreamed CD (search this forum for "slipstreamed ").

If you cannot get setup to work and need to backup data, you will have to put the drive into another computer as a slave drive and access it there.

We will have to use a "shotgun approach" unless there is more information to go by. Watch for any type of error message.

There should not be any malware involved?

It is not a branded computer like a HP and you are using a retail version of Windows?
Matt

 

Mattman
Thanks, but I opted to do a reinstall before I got your post.
I have a complete backup on another drive so figured for me this was the easiest way to go.
Sorry I put you to so much trouble

roy