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If you're getting all the way to the hard drive trying to boot Windows, then the reboot loop could very well at this point be Windows-related. Have you booted off your Windows CD and done a "repair Windows installation"? These are options you could try if it's a Windows XP problem and not hardware. Philly.

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What I had to do to correct the problem is remove the hard drive from the computer and install it as a slave drive in my xp box. I'm caught in a reboot loop! I can't get deep enough into the booting to tell why it's rebooting! The furthest I can get is the menu that allows me to boot into safe mode,

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The error message also suggests removing any hardware I may have recently installed. Everything is unplugged from the laptop, including my USB game controller. But it's still stuck in the endless restart loop. I tried booting from the Windows XP installation CD-Rom and it starts out well enough.

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Sla#s p...@KNOTslatts.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support XP Home install in Reboot loop I am getting to 3/4 of "Finishing Installation" when the machine keeps rebooting. History The machine started to sometimes randomly, perhaps once a day, reboot with a command ie clicking on an icon or opening a file

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Malke ma...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windowsxp general SoxFanInVA wrote: I am experiencing the same exact behavior I did a repair install because I could not get my keyboard or mouse to work (usb and ps/2 versions). After the repair install completed I am now stuck in this never-ending reboot loop.

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Cathy anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public win2000 windows_update -----Original Message----- After my most recent updates installation my computer is in a continuous reboot loop, the only way I can boot is in safe mode. I did find and remove a virus with Mcaffee's "stinger", but that did not fix the

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Boot to the CD and select to install Windows into C:\Windows. 2. Setup will scan your disks, if it finds errors, it will fix them and reboot. 3. Now, the server is caught in a reboot loop. It reboots right when the win2k3 progress bar starts moving across the screen (after the system gets through POST).

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Or, when you try to install Windows Me or Windows 98 with more than 1.5 GB of... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;130018&Product=w98 Computer Caught in Reboot Loop After Using DriveSpace (130018) - When you are using DriveSpace to compress a drive, your computer may become stuck in a reboot

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Chris H. winxpn...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows tabletpc A botched install is really a problem, Nick, as you've found out. Unfortunately, it is obviously set to automatically reboot, so I can't see the error. I don't think SP2 finished installing, as I don't have the option to turn off the automatic

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John Howland jhowl...@specialtytech.com alt comp periphs mainboard soyo Yes, it's a known fact that if you install the HPT 366 driver with no drive it wont boot.. but Win and the drivers have been installed, Win 98 will go into a perpetual boot/reboot loop without ever getting past the Win 98 splash screen.

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HP Vectra VL 70 has a successful installation of win95 on it, working fine. But when you attempt to exit win95, there is a problem. After the prepare for sysem shutdown screen (the first one), If that does not do it might be a bad install (this wwas my case) corrupt files ...reinstall 95 (yeah I hate it too !

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Just a thought, did IBM cripple the installation diskettes to a ->set number of installations? Any help appreciated..... Though you will need the updated IDE drivers in order to cope with the 5GB IDE drive I don't think you've got that fat yet. If you're in a reboot loop at this point it sounds like some kernel or

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No matter what choice I make, Normally or Safe Mode, it just causes the computer to reboot and here I am again. When I choose Safe Mode, it looks like it's going So if I were you, I'd try a repair Windows installation on your friend's computer. It's not w/o its dangers, but it's less drastic than a reinstall.

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... able to install label view fine and no problems on the reboot. After that I installed the VM additions again and it went right back into the reboot loop. I have not find any way to recover from this more than rolling back to before the installation. Today I had the same exact problem with a program called

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Kelly ke...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp general Hi Rene, Repair the Windows XP Installation - Note: You will forfeit all MS Updates. I've been working on this for hours and hours now: XP is stuck in a reboot loop. Can't make it to login screen. Just Welcome screen and start over.

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Nicole_WLU Nicole...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment I posted a similar question yesterday, but now have some more information: I am trying to install Windows XP Pro on a brand-new hard disk. Setup will run find through the text-based phase, recognizing the new drive,

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I ran Recovery Console from setup and ran a chkdsk and it fixed some errors but no affect on the reboot loop. I then tried to repair the installation from setup. The repair completed the initial setup but upon reboot it goes back into a reboot loop, I never get to the GUI portion of setup.Does anyone have any ideas