XP repair installation not working

Robert P

Member
Running XP Pro SP3. Something happened to the system, wouldn't boot all the way, was getting stuck at the screen with Windows and the blue chaser lights.

Tried doing a repair installation which seemed to go okay but on boot it won't get past the "Saving computer settings" screen.

Unfortunately I hadn't done a Macrium backup of this system in some time.

Any suggestions? Trying to avoid the PITA of starting from scratch with a new install - plus I'd just like to see if I can make it work.
 

Robert P

Member
Possibly the hard drive is starting to fail? Have you ran a diagnostic on it?
The initial failure was on a drive that's not very old. I put that original drive in another machine, made a Macrium clone of it, transferred that clone to a brand new drive and did the repair install on the new drive.
 
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