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Repair install boots to black screen


kahlil88

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Trying to do a repair install on a Dell laptop with WinXP Home. The optical drive is somewhat buggy, so I had to keep swapping various XP SP3 (Home and Pro) discs to get the first phase (from the disc, with the blue screen) to finish. Then it reboots and seems to be trying to boot the OS rather than the setup program. It displays the Windows logo boot screen briefly then just hangs at a black screen -- no hard drive activity. I'd like to either cancel setup, since a repair may not even be necessary, or get it to finish somehow. It has a normal boot.ini which is another thing that leads me to wonder if it's even trying to repair install.

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  • 3 weeks later...

I can't speak to the mix of versions used, but I normally see this kind of issue with an incorrect HAL (APIC when it should be Uni/Multi or vice versa). I assume there is no alternate drive to swap out the questionable one, but since it's a Dell do you have the restore CDs?

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