windows stuck in installation mode

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My Windows XP Home Edition was acting a little screwy and in an attempt to
fix it I tried reinstalling it. Now it's stuck at the "Installing Windows"
stage of the reinstallation. I get a message saying "Installing Devices" and
then the system reboots and repeats this over and over again. I can't even
get back into the original os at all. Help...I'm lost.
 
May be your windows CD is corrupted. Beacause same thing has happened
to me. Format you drive and install a fresh copy of windows
 
A.K. said:
My Windows XP Home Edition was acting a little screwy and in an attempt to
fix it I tried reinstalling it. Now it's stuck at the "Installing Windows"
stage of the reinstallation. I get a message saying "Installing Devices" and
then the system reboots and repeats this over and over again. I can't even
get back into the original os at all. Help...I'm lost.
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Is there data on that system you wanted? If so, it's at risk, so stop now,
and remove the drive, attach it to another XP system and copy all the data
off, including the things like email and address book files that are
helpfully stored in hidden folders.

An easy and quick way to do this is to download and install to that other
system the free trial version of Acronis Truie Image. Make an image of
your drive, the host system will have to have enough drive space. You'll
be done that usually within an hour, mount the image and make sure the files
are available. Then you can proceed with fixing or reinstalling.

If you just can't do that, consider getting another hard disk - 80 gig
drives can be had for around CDN$50 - and do a new install of XP to it.
Later, attach the old drive and copy the data over. You will have to
reinstall all applications as well. But, you will have a new, faster
drive, and know that the XP install is clean.

This will only work if you have an XP install CD. If your XP version
installs from a "recovery partition" on the hard disk (a terrible idea), you
cannot easily replace the drive without cloning it first (with something
like TrueImage) or buying a new XP license to get the CD.

HTH
-pk
 
Code name 47 said:
May be your windows CD is corrupted. Beacause same thing has happened
to me. Format you drive and install a fresh copy of windows
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Might be a good idea to back up the data first...

-pk
 
Try pulling all the unnecessary hardware from the system and see if you can
complete the install. This means ensure you have unplugged devices like
printers, scanners, cameras, usb sticks etc. If the system has a modem
remove it. If the system has separate network card unplug it from the
motherboard. When you say "it was acting a little screwy" before you decided
to try a repair install can you elaborate on what it was doing? Flaky RAM or
other hardware problems can cause a lot of grief and can be a leading reason
why one cannot complete a reinstall.

If the system is still under warranty you may want to have an authorized
repair service take a look to see if there is a hardware problem that needs
to be replaced.
 
My Windows XP Home Edition was acting a little screwy and in an attempt to
fix it I tried reinstalling it. Now it's stuck at the "Installing Windows"
stage of the reinstallation. I get a message saying "Installing Devices"
and then the system reboots and repeats this over and over again. I can't
even get back into the original os at all. Help...I'm lost.
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It took me 5 tries on a desktop machine and 7 tries on a laptop!

Let the installation start again, but remove the CD from the drive.

It will chug away for a few minutes, and then say it can't find whatever
file, and say the disk is missing. Put the CD back in the drive, click OK
and it might continue. Did for me on both systems.
 
Hachiroku ???? said:
It took me 5 tries on a desktop machine and 7 tries on a laptop!

Let the installation start again, but remove the CD from the drive.

It will chug away for a few minutes, and then say it can't find whatever
file, and say the disk is missing. Put the CD back in the drive, click OK
and it might continue. Did for me on both systems.
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From what you describe I'd be inclined to believe that you had issues with
your hardware or CD that was causing the install trouble.
 
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