Question : XP repair installation is stuck in restart loop

I had to do a repair installation on an XP machine.  The installation went well, but when the computer restarted to boot into normal windows, a blue information screen appeared stating "Setup is being restarted..."  It goes through the whole installation again, reboots, and I get the same restart screen.  It's now stuck in this loop.

I've run memtest through 7 passes, with no errors.  I've run checkdisk with no errors.  I've used the repair console to run fixboot, which didn't work.  I'm still stuck in the restart loop and out of ideas.

Answer : XP repair installation is stuck in restart loop

What was your reason for having to do the Repair Install?
It seems to me that the Repair corrupted somewhere, either during the last
Bit of the install (or) after Reboot after the repair install was completed.

Suggest:
Remove drive and backup to another system when you want to keep.
Plan on deploying a Full Install of the System NOT Repair Install.

This issues usually happens when the system becomes corrupted during Repair installs.
Microsoft use to have a Knowledge Base Article up on Win2k for this same exact thing
But dumped it along with 1,000's of other useful artcles when they re-did there KB Server(s)>

Good Luck
Carrzkiss
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