Is this a recovery where you reinstall XP on top of the previous install? Is this a System restore? What was broken that required this action? What does rebooting do?
Yesterday, I used the recovery function for xp on my machine. I took about 30 minutes and them I rebooted. At this point I was asked about sound, time zone, and computer name. The next screen advised to click Finished, I did this but my machine wound not respond? Any ideas, please?

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