When I turn on the system, it goes well until it reaches the WinXP boot screen with the progress bar. It just restarts automatically and asks again if I want safe mode, normal start... etc. It never actually loads the desktop no matter what I chose of those options. Then I tried with those 6 bootable floppy disks, but after I put the 3rd one in, it gave me an error #7 saying file setupdd is missing. I created the floppy disks all over again and it says the same thing. I tried booting the WinXP CD by changing the boot setting in BIOS, but it does not want to boot it, takes me instead to the screen with safe mode, normal start... options. Does anyone have any suggestions what can be done to repair or correctly boot the system? Help is greatly appreciated. Daniel

On the boot are hitting enter within 5 seconds of when the bios asks "do you want to boot from the cd?".

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, had to do a full reinstall. L.Dudley

It does not want to boot from the floppies, nor the WinXP CD. I do not know why I get an error when trying to boot from the floppies that a file is missing?

A few people, including me, have had this problem. I found this here: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm 1. boot the computer using the XP cd 2. options will turn up asking..."set up windows now press enter" and "to repair using recovery etc" and "quit". If you get to these options press enter as if you were starting a re-install. Don't choose repair using the recovery console. 3. accept licence agreement 4. windows will look for existing installations. 5. select the xp installation you want to repair from the list by pressing "R". Files will be copied from the cd as if it was doing a clean install and will reboot. Press any key to boot from CD when the message appears. Set up will continue as if doing a clean install, as I said, but your settings and programs will not be changed. You will have to put back service packs etc. You'd better go to the site I mentioned as I cannot publish the full article without the permission of Michael Stevens who wrote it. There are some warnings etc that you should read too.

The problem is that I cannot boot it with the WinXP CD!!! It goes back in circles and displays a black screen saying do you want safe mode, normal start, ...

Either the cd is dirty or bad or the cd drive is bad or you are not hitting enter within the 5 second delay. Or the bios is not set correctly to boot the cd before the hard drive.