Cannot continue with original setup. Power cord fell out during the original setup. Error message says "The system is not fully installed. Please run setup again." I click the "OK" button but it keeps giving me the same error message each time I try to reboot.
Hi bud , when you turn on computer enter setup bios,select options for boot,select first boot cd,save setting and restart with your xp disk in drive.screen will say press any key to start from cd.press any key and reinstall fresh copy not repair not continue.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008
Press F8 key (just after BIOS screen) at the next cold reboot and you will see a DOS screen with 3 or more options. Read each of them and I think you will see one option is to resume setup. This option places the system at a safe entry point to continue the setup. Another option may read "cancel setup and restore previous system"...this one may be used if you cannot get the "resume setup" option after repeated tries.
Posted on Aug 03, 2007
at this point, I think you must get a setup disc again, but then choose "DOS prompt only with CDROM driver installed"...and then insert CD at DOS prompt with CDROM drive letter and then type "setup". I have gone through this myself and the only way forward was to do these steps. If still dead end, then you may have to run FDISK and format C drive to start over completely. Have a startup floppy disk (create one from a good PC) on hand and ensure the following files are present: scandisk.exe, fdisk.exe, format.exe, and sys.exe. For more help, post back.
I have also come across the option to "resume setup", but that may be because of the progress of the setup state. It appears that only this option is available after a certain stage is fulfilled...your pc may not have reached that stage yet.
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There is no choice to "resume setup". There is no option to "cancel setup & restore previous system" I chose "Last known good configuration" and the error message reads: "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS/system32\config\SYSTEM I don't have the original setup disk, or any disk.
I will need to order a setup disk from HP, which was not provided by the seller. I downloaded the HP Startup Utility, and Sysprep, and put them on separate CD's but the computer will not run them, even from the F8 and F10 menus. I hope using the setup disk works.
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