SP2 crash - laptop reboots

[therookie]

I did the SP2 and my laptop hung half way thru the install, so I was forced
to reboot. I tried the SP2 a second time and it hung again but now the
laptop goes thru an endless reboot cycle. If I select safe mode, normal or
anything, it attempts to load xp but briefly pops up a blue screen (so fast
can't view) and reboots and I can not go any further.

I can not find my windows xp home edition cd that it came with, I do
have/own a full licensed copy of XP Pro (not upgrade version). I just want
my data files and than will install my full license copy on the laptop. Is
it possible to install XP Pro Full on my laptop without reformatting my
existing hard drive. When I attempted to do, the only choice given is to
wipe existing hard drive and install new, is there a work around or am I
missing a step. Thank you in advance

>-----Original Message-----
>I did the SP2 and my laptop hung half way thru the
install, so I was forced
>to reboot. I tried the SP2 a second time and it hung
again but now the
>laptop goes thru an endless reboot cycle. If I select
safe mode, normal or
>anything, it attempts to load xp but briefly pops up a
blue screen (so fast
>can't view) and reboots and I can not go any further.
>
>I can not find my windows xp home edition cd that it
came with, I do
>have/own a full licensed copy of XP Pro (not upgrade
version). I just want
>my data files and than will install my full license copy
on the laptop. Is
>it possible to install XP Pro Full on my laptop without
reformatting my
>existing hard drive. When I attempted to do, the only
choice given is to
>wipe existing hard drive and install new, is there a
work around or am I
>missing a step. Thank you in advance
>.
>hp and compaq and some gateways and a lot of oems use
proprietary drivers for their laptops,so forget
installing your xp pro cd,especially if already installed
elsewhere(one cd,one cdkey ,one computer)

there is a command sequence to remove sp2 from the
recovery console,you can boot to your pro cd and the
recovery run that command then remove sp2 from add remove.

[Vikas Ahuja [MSFT]]

Some one recommended that:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sp2_whattoknow.mspx

1: Made sure I had all the latest drivers for my peripherals
2: Made sure I had all available updates for my software
3: Did a thorough disk cleanup
4: Did a thorough virus scan
5: Did a thorough adware scan with Ad Aware and Spybot
6: Imaged my hard drive using Powerquest Drive Image
7: Installed SP2 - stand alone network install.
8: Did a complete defrag of my system partition

http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&mid=c80a90b3-0f15-4ce3-b5ea-6173d879fd88&sloc=en-us




How to revomve Xp sp2 from your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;875350

If you can't boot into safe mode, try the following article

How to use the Automatic Recovery feature to recover your computer if the
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Setup program is not completed successfully
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];875355

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


" wrote:

>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I did the SP2 and my laptop hung half way thru the
> install, so I was forced
> >to reboot. I tried the SP2 a second time and it hung
> again but now the
> >laptop goes thru an endless reboot cycle. If I select
> safe mode, normal or
> >anything, it attempts to load xp but briefly pops up a
> blue screen (so fast
> >can't view) and reboots and I can not go any further.
> >
> >I can not find my windows xp home edition cd that it
> came with, I do
> >have/own a full licensed copy of XP Pro (not upgrade
> version). I just want
> >my data files and than will install my full license copy
> on the laptop. Is
> >it possible to install XP Pro Full on my laptop without
> reformatting my
> >existing hard drive. When I attempted to do, the only
> choice given is to
> >wipe existing hard drive and install new, is there a
> work around or am I
> >missing a step. Thank you in advance
> >.
> >hp and compaq and some gateways and a lot of oems use
> proprietary drivers for their laptops,so forget
> installing your xp pro cd,especially if already installed
> elsewhere(one cd,one cdkey ,one computer)
>
> there is a command sequence to remove sp2 from the
> recovery console,you can boot to your pro cd and the
> recovery run that command then remove sp2 from add remove.
>

[Rock]

therookie wrote:

> I did the SP2 and my laptop hung half way thru the install, so I was forced
> to reboot. I tried the SP2 a second time and it hung again but now the
> laptop goes thru an endless reboot cycle. If I select safe mode, normal or
> anything, it attempts to load xp but briefly pops up a blue screen (so fast
> can't view) and reboots and I can not go any further.
>
> I can not find my windows xp home edition cd that it came with, I do
> have/own a full licensed copy of XP Pro (not upgrade version). I just want
> my data files and than will install my full license copy on the laptop. Is
> it possible to install XP Pro Full on my laptop without reformatting my
> existing hard drive. When I attempted to do, the only choice given is to
> wipe existing hard drive and install new, is there a work around or am I
> missing a step. Thank you in advance

How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=875350