Dear Gods Help This Idiot!

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Ambular:
According to our friendly neighborhood cybergeek, some SP3 users running specific Dell and (I think?) HP systems have got locked into a continuous-restart loop like that and there's no cure for it but to salvage whatever data by whatever means you can, then wipe the drive and reinstall everything.

* AmberDiceless pats myskaal sympathetically.

One more reason to buy local custom-built rigs...

myskaal:
Of course.

Yes, indeed, the next system I get will *not* be factory shipped but built. Pre-made and ready to ship is just too much of a nightmare - especially with all the crap Dell likes to put on their systems before it gets to you. The first 3 month after I got this rig was spent just trying to clean all the crap that has no use off. I never did get rid of all of it.

Oh yay we're at appliaction installation. 30 more minutes to go.

I appreciate the support ;)

**Update: All done and thankyou for the help. I can get to my files. I'm blind , now, mind you (I forgot what a fresh install with an unconfigured displaylooks like) but I can get my goods and nuke the uglies.

I think I'll actually head out and grab a non-dell-dirtied OS disk before doing the reformat.

jolrei:
Yeah, that popped up on my rig as well.  I had it set to download, but not auto-install.  I saw the prompt and told it to cancel the install since I'd heard this about SP3.  I have a custom rig that I built myself, and I'm not ready to risk it.  I am following the "not broke, don't fix" philosophy now.

momoryde:
Do you already have all your files in a safe backup somewhere, and a real (ie, not a recovery disk) copy of Windows you're installing from? If you do, just go ahead and nuke all the partitions, and then partition to taste. I'm not sure whether you're on a laptop or not, but that looks vaguely like the weird-ass partition schemes certain Windows laptops makers like Dell would sometimes use to set up suspend-to-disk partitions.

J. M. Pescado:
Never auto-update Windoze. If it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT.

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