Windows XP Repair Install Hangs at "Setup is Restarting......". Okay, I am currently running a Windows XP Repair installation on a friend's PC. The repair installation would freeze at the 34 minute mark during the "installing devices" section. In order to try...

repair installation stops at register components. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () My Win2K Pro gave a blue screen error: STOP: c000012 (fatal system error). I tried to do a repair installation, but now the setup seems to be stuck...

Repairing XP installation with a base XP CD (with SP2 installed) may >cause problems, as seen in the newsgroup. Create a slipstreamed XP CD >with SP2 and the proceed to repair XP. IMO, if an SP breaks the installation CD (repair install, RC) then it...

is that a repair install is pretty benign. So I put in > my XP disk, tell it I want to do an install (first option), and wait for > it to find the existing installation and prompt me for repair. >> Except it never does. I think. >> I let it go all...

the point when I again had an option for Repair installation with Windows installation CD (using tricks with Recovery console, etc.) - I didn't want to lose a whole lot of custom apps installed. I proceeded, and everything was OK, up to the point......

XP repair install freezes. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () After problems with xp not booting i decided to do a repair install on the system to sort it out. First time i did this it got to 9 minutes remaining and froze...

Windows overlay or repair installation. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () What exaclty occurs when you do an overlay of the operating system? What files are deleted/restored? Is the registry tampered with at all? Reason...

I figured the HD was toast, so I connected a hard drive that I had been using until 4 months ago that had XP SP 2 installed (dual booting fedora also). The CD did find the installation on this hard drive, and I was able to repair the install and get...

How to Repair with Install Disc. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () How do you do a repair from a installation disc? I know you have to change some order of drives but I don't like to mess with the bios. I need to know step...

about a simple "repair" installation option (which I *know* I used last time). Last time, what I found and ran was called something like a "repair" install, executed a lot like a regular install, but simply repaired my current Windows 2003 install (by...