Problems reinstalling Windows XP

[Bimalaggarwal]

I tried to reinstall windows XP on my compaq presario pc.
I have the following problem:

During the reinstallation, after installing devices to some extent ( with 34 minutes remaining, as per the message on the screen), my pc restarts and the XP installation process begins again. It restarts exactly at the same point. This process loops again until I shut down my pc.

What could be wrong? I had installed Windows XP from the same cd before and it worked fine.
I have not added any new hardware.

 

[provo14]

did you use the compaq recovery tools that are partitioned on the hard drive. It needs to access them for setup, I found out the hard way. If you have lost them you need to do a complete format using a wind 98 boot disk and then reload the os

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815319