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Computer restarts after booting Windows XP Pro

#1 Help Me!?

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 04:19 PM

Today I reinstalled Windows XP Pro on a computer. The process went fine until I restarted the computer. Now the computer will boot up until the Welcome screen then automatically restarts. What could cause this? :thumbsup:

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 04:25 PM

Clean install...or just a reinstall over whatever was there before...hoping that a reinstall would fix whatever was wrong?

Why the urge to reinstall?

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 04:27 PM

The computer kept crashing often, so I reinstalled windows, deleteing all of the old files.

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 04:35 PM

Did you delete the partition...and then create a new one while installing XP?

Did you check the hard drive for problems, either before or after?

System manufacturer and model, please?

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 04:44 PM

I deleted the partition and created a new one. The harddrive doesn't seem to have any problems, I connected it to another computer as slave and could open the files.

Model: Maxtor D740X - 6L
Computer: HP Vectra VL 420 ( XP compatible)

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 08:20 PM

Sooo...you can access the files (or at least see them) from another system...but you can't boot into XP.

You may want to take a look at Logon, Logoff Loop - http://thinkinginpixels.com/quick-fixes/fi...onlog-off-loop/

You didn't happen to write down any of the error messages you previously received, did you?

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