I have a laptop which was giving problems with freezing and not booting into windows, I ran some checks which suggested a problem with the hard drive which I have replaced. I ran the system restore disc which keeps throwing up an error with pciidex.sys, the disc is a little scratched and marked so I thought I would load windows off an original cd. It boots up to the initial blue screen, loads some files, gets to the last loading windows screen and then reboots. I have tried this several times without success, it doesn't get as far as asking me if I want to load windows or try a repair. I have ran checks on the memory 2/3 times and it comes out as OK.
I feel as tho I'm banging my head against a wall at the moment. Anyone any suggestions as to what the problem may be?

Please put your System Specs information in your Profile

The laptop is an ie-systems 3089uk, Celeron M420 1.6GHz, 256Mb memory, 40GB hard drive, Windows XP home.

No in your Profile <=

Anyway:
Please take the disc to your local DVD Rental store, most have a cleaning machine (usually $5 or $10)

Then try the original again

My profile does show my system specs, this laptop is not mine therefore not listed in my profile. When asked I am always happy to provide any info requested.

I see

That's ok

By the way, in your System Specs you need to answer "Yes" to show them

But because this is someone elses computer I suppose don't worry

You might try this as well:
http://www.solriche.co.uk/files/misc/move_xp.html

I'm not sure why this page does not inform the user of CPU chipset issue (that will stop Windows from starting if the HardDrive is put into a different computer) in that case a Repair option will do.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for Hodsocks to inform me if the Original CD (once professionally cleaned) worked or not.