[Ericthegreat]

So my friend pc has been getting bluescreens finaly it wouldnt boot so I ran chkdsk from the recovery console and it was able to boot into windows. Soon after he got another bsod so I ran a repair install (I had never done one before) and when I got to the xp install screen I tought it was going to reinstall windows (format the drive) so.... I turned it off (dumbass I know) now it just goes to "Setup is restarting...................." then a black screen with a pointer I can move but then the pc just turns off and the whole thing restarts. I tryed running a repair install again but now it says "windows already tryed to repair blah blah blah" then if i chose to do it anyway when its done I just get the "System is restarting..........." message again. Any help or do I need a refreash install? I'm able to still copy data over through a linux boot cd btw. tyvm in advance

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I'd go for clean install in this case.
If the clean install won't work, you may have some hardware problem.

[Broni]

I'd go for clean install in this case.
If the clean install won't work, you may have some hardware problem.

[Ericthegreat]

It was going to install originaly

[Broni]

Firstly, you can't be sure, it'd go all the way.
Then, by interrupting repair process y pulling the plug could have corrupt OS files beyond repair.