Windows does not start after recovery

Hi, my son's sattelite 1800 started getting slower and slower to the point where it took almost an hour to boot into Windows. It got to the stage where it looked like recovery from the CD's was the only route - so we did. All looked successful from the recovery point of view but Windows XP Setup displays 'Please wait...' with normal looking disk activity for 20-30 seconds and then hangs - no disk activity, mouse stops responding. I've gone through the recovery in 'expert' mode and don't see any issues with the recovery process. Questions:
1. Has anyone else seen this?
2. What else can I do diagnostic-wise?
3. What, fundamentally, does the recovery process do/ (does it re-format partitions, might it have left a virus?)
4. Am I best following h/w or s/w diags?
Bitshifter

Hello
On this way it is not easy to give you a proper explanation why this happen. If you use the recovery CD for OS installation the HDD will be formatted and the OS will be clean installed. IF you use standard mode the whole HDD capacity will be used for just one partition. Using expert mode you can create two partitions or you can install OS on persisting partition.
Usually after recovery reinstallation there should not be any problem except for HDD malfunction.
Please wait message occur after first start and you can not compare it with usual boot up process. That first start after recovery procedure takes much longer time because the OS must detects all hardware components, install drivers and prepare the OS for the usage.
For further start the OS doesnt need so much time for boot up process.
Bye

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