HELP , hungup in repair install XP

[barginhunter]

Everything was going fine with XP home repair install , Until , it got to the 34 minutes to go mark and it endlessly cycles reboot back to 34 minutes to go , reboot 34 min.....
Can I stop this and do a regular install ?
How do I stop this XP repair install ?
Only rig , only hard drive , can't format itself , what can i do ?

[sao95]

do you have a hd format disk?
is it a xp clean install?

[barginhunter]

WinXP home is on the hdd , it was having problems , I am attempting a repair install and it is hung up .
Is there any way to stop the repair install and do something else ?

[sao95]

you could always just hit the power button and hope for the best

then reformat your hd and start a fresh install, but you'll lose everything on your hd...

[barginhunter]

I've tried turning off the power , the XPh repair attempt comes right back up where it was stopped from .

[bailey]

when it does the reboot thing you need to remove the cd.
or do not hit the f1 key to boot from the cd.

what your doing is booting from the cd instead of the hard drive, because the bios is set to boot from the cd.

[barginhunter]

Hung up in repair install , set bios to boot from hdd only , no cd installed . System stops and waits for winXP cd to be reinstalled before continuing .
Does anyone know how to escape from the repair install one it has started ?

[John Prophet]

is there anything on the drive you need? you could always boot to a floppy and just format it for a fresh start....(for that matter you could just boot from cd and reformat.)

[barginhunter]

Stuck in repair installation , the system only picks up where it left off if booted from XP system cd disc or not . Cannot get to selection menu to choose fresh install . Only thing happens is the repair installation starts from where it left off , cycling .

[Gettinbye]

You can use a 98 emergency boot disk (floppy) to run FDISK and format the drive that way. Then you'll be able to do a clean install.