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From: Somedood on 17 Oct 2009 23:53

Wow. Sorry for reviving an old thread but I need help. This exact same
thing happened to me. Few days ago, my XP Pro randomly contracted the
BSOD and so I tried fixing it by running the repair from my Windows XP
CD.

After it restarted, like this guy, I freaked out after seeing what I
thought was Windows reinstalling itself and forced shut-down my
computer. Now whenever I start it up, I get the same light blue screen
with "Setup is restarting........" then my PC reboots itself and it
becomes a loop. With safe mode, it just shows the black screen with the
safe mode border for a few seconds and reboots itself. I've tried
rerunning the repair with no luck.

I tried what this guy says and I tried rebuilding my boot.ini file with
recovery console and running chkdisk and I've also tried opening it with
Knoppix but there's no such "\$win_nt$.~bt\bootsect.dat" reference in it
or anything. Just a normal boot.ini file. Not sure if this guy solved
his problem, since it seems he never came back here but does anyone know
how I can solve this without wiping my computer clean or transferring
files onto anything external? I just want my old computer back.


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From: Patrick Keenan on 18 Oct 2009 01:36
"Somedood" <Somedood.408ifb(a)DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Wow. Sorry for reviving an old thread but I need help. This exact same
> thing happened to me. Few days ago, my XP Pro randomly contracted the
> BSOD and so I tried fixing it by running the repair from my Windows XP
> CD.
>
> After it restarted, like this guy, I freaked out after seeing what I
> thought was Windows reinstalling itself and forced shut-down my
> computer. Now whenever I start it up, I get the same light blue screen
> with "Setup is restarting........" then my PC reboots itself and it
> becomes a loop. With safe mode, it just shows the black screen with the
> safe mode border for a few seconds and reboots itself. I've tried
> rerunning the repair with no luck.
>
> I tried what this guy says and I tried rebuilding my boot.ini file with
> recovery console and running chkdisk and I've also tried opening it with
> Knoppix but there's no such "\$win_nt$.~bt\bootsect.dat" reference in it
> or anything. Just a normal boot.ini file. Not sure if this guy solved
> his problem, since it seems he never came back here but does anyone know
> how I can solve this without wiping my computer clean or transferring
> files onto anything external? I just want my old computer back.
>
>
> --
> Somedood

If you want your old computer back, the first step is to transfer your files
to something external. Your current setup apparently has significant
problems and you are at high risk of losing whatever is on it..

It will take you less time to stop, back up your data, and do this properly
than to try to recover in a haphazard manner. Data recovery is not
necessarily reliable.

If you don't have anything external, get a new drive - where I am, 500gig
drives are about $60 - remove your old drive and set it aside. Put the new
drive in and do a clean install. *After* that is complete, attach the old
drive and copy your data to the new install.

HTH
-pk


From: Richard on 22 Oct 2009 06:02
> "Somedood" <Somedood.408ifb(a)DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:Somedood.408ifb(a)DoNotSpam.com...
>
> Wow. Sorry for reviving an old thread but I need help. This exact same
> thing happened to me. Few days ago, my XP Pro randomly contracted the
> BSOD and so I tried fixing it by running the repair from my Windows XP
> CD.
>
> After it restarted, like this guy, I freaked out after seeing what I
> thought was Windows reinstalling itself and forced shut-down my
> computer. Now whenever I start it up, I get the same light blue screen
> with "Setup is restarting........" then my PC reboots itself and it
> becomes a loop. With safe mode, it just shows the black screen with the
> safe mode border for a few seconds and reboots itself. I've tried
> rerunning the repair with no luck.
>
> I tried what this guy says and I tried rebuilding my boot.ini file with
> recovery console and running chkdisk and I've also tried opening it with
> Knoppix but there's no such "\$win_nt$.~bt\bootsect.dat" reference in it
> or anything. Just a normal boot.ini file. Not sure if this guy solved
> his problem, since it seems he never came back here but does anyone know
> how I can solve this without wiping my computer clean or transferring
> files onto anything external? I just want my old computer back.
> --
> Somedood
>http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/710154.htm

You probably interrupted the process when setup files were being copied to
the drive, and the boot.ini file was already modified to include an
additional boot option for setup, which was set to default.

The cure, using Recovery Console, is to navigate to the root folder of
your system drive, (usually C:\) and:
rename boot.ini boot.old
and then:
copy boot.bak boot.ini
and then:
exit

What was the original BSOD message, (including text that LOOKS_LIKE_THIS,
and complete error codes that look like: 0x00000000)

What Service Pack level is your WinXP pro setup? SP2? SP3?
What Service Pack level is the installation CD?
(What other details did you forget to mention above? :)

Hope This Helps.
--Richard



From: Warichet on 29 Oct 2009 07:06

Hi,

I'm in exactly the same situation as Somedood.

My problem arised all of a suden, for no apparent reason, light blue
screen with only an active cursor. So I though it's a virus or a
hardware problem.
I thought the video controller was dead. I got another PC, exactly the
same, installed the original disk in it, same problem. So my XP is
corrupt, for sure.

I installed the original disk in another computer in order to scan it
for virus, although my McAfee is up-to-date, I discovered and removed a
trojan horse A0057140.exe. After reboot, no luck. Maybe the trojan has
damaged system files.

I've read a Windows XP repair procedure. I first slipstreamed a new XP
CD with SP2, then I tried a repair, but when I restarted I got the same
light blue screen with "Setup is restarting........"

Also, as mentionned above: with safe mode, it shows the black screen
with the words "safe mode" on all 4 corners, but no control of XP

I tried the boot.ini hint, but it is not applicable as there is no such
thing as "\$win_nt$.~bt\bootsect.dat"
XP thinks the setup is incomplete, it must be remembered somewhere, any
hint ? probably in the Registry ?

Thank you in advance for your kind help.
Raymond


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From: Raymond on 1 Nov 2009 05:46
Hi

Anyone has an idea where the so called incomplete setup is remembered which
causes the "Setup is restarting......." message ?

It is definitely not the boot.ini with a line like
"\$win_nt$.~bt\bootsect.dat"
XP thinks the setup is incomplete, this is wrong, as the system was in
perfect working condition before I executed de XP repair (and I executed the
repair procedure because the boot sequence was stuck with a light blue
screen with only the active cursor on it)

Any hint please ?

Thank you in advance
Raymond




"Warichet" <Warichet.40tf7b(a)DoNotSpam.com> a �crit dans le message de news:
Warichet.40tf7b(a)DoNotSpam.com...
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm in exactly the same situation as Somedood.
>
> My problem arised all of a suden, for no apparent reason, light blue
> screen with only an active cursor. So I though it's a virus or a
> hardware problem.
> I thought the video controller was dead. I got another PC, exactly the
> same, installed the original disk in it, same problem. So my XP is
> corrupt, for sure.
>
> I installed the original disk in another computer in order to scan it
> for virus, although my McAfee is up-to-date, I discovered and removed a
> trojan horse A0057140.exe. After reboot, no luck. Maybe the trojan has
> damaged system files.
>
> I've read a Windows XP repair procedure. I first slipstreamed a new XP
> CD with SP2, then I tried a repair, but when I restarted I got the same
> light blue screen with "Setup is restarting........"
>
> Also, as mentionned above: with safe mode, it shows the black screen
> with the words "safe mode" on all 4 corners, but no control of XP
>
> I tried the boot.ini hint, but it is not applicable as there is no such
> thing as "\$win_nt$.~bt\bootsect.dat"
> XP thinks the setup is incomplete, it must be remembered somewhere, any
> hint ? probably in the Registry ?
>
> Thank you in advance for your kind help.
> Raymond
>
>
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