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I have a VAIO MACHINE, was running XP upgrade setup.  Setup failed with a cyclic redundancy check.  Rebooting starts the setup process.  Starting in SAFEMODE generates the error:  setup cannot run in safe mode, setup will now restart....... how can I stop the loop?Try inserting a bootable CD/diskette and repair the OS or reformat the HDD.

Be certain to set the first boot device to the appropiate medium first.I would love to repair the os....  how can I get to the recovery console?
can't.  booting from the XP CD gives me the option to 1.  continue setup.  2.  Exit setup and install a freash OS.
3.  Cancel setup (which LEAVES the machine in the setup loop at next boot)  Install is looking for NT5.CAT  which is not on the CD.  
Any suggestions?Well,  ya see........
I used the XP pro upgrade to upgrade the Vaio from XP home.........
machine has been fine for a long time....
user lost some file associations installing an audio amplifier device......
Then tried to run the upgrade CD thinking it would reset the associations.......
The user has alot of specific software on machine and a rebuild for the Vaio from scratch will cost many many hours........  I was looking to stop the setup loop and repair the file associations. Quote

I would love to repair the os....  how can I get to the recovery console?




Installing and Using Recovery Console

Perform a Repair Installation

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XPOK, so you're stuck with XP Home on the drive and an XP Pro setup which keeps on trying to run.

Try booting into safe mode and open up the boot.ini file then edit it to remove any reference to the XP Pro setup.

E.G.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

If he has installed the Recovery Console on the hard drive there will be another line so it will look like this...

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

You MAY find a line such as...

C:\WINNT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP setup" or some such.

That is the one you'll need to remove.

Now see if you can get back to the desktop. If you can then copy the ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini files to a floppy for future use. (Write-protect the floppy.)

If he has SP2 on the hard drive and if you have an XP Home SP2 CD then you could run SFC /SCANNOW to replace any damaged system files.

(This is one of the main reasons for avoiding OEM installations IMO.)

Don't know if this will help at all...Startup problem
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I have a VAIO machine, was running XP upgrade setup.  Setup failed with a cyclic redundancy check.  Rebooting starts the setup process.  Starting in safemode generates the error:  setup cannot run in safe mode, setup will now restart....... how can I stop the loop?


As you can see, safe mode was not an option.  Thanks for all the input folks I have wiped the drive and I am having the user beaten.
I man want equal rights.


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