When re-installing XP my computer goes through the process down to about 34 minutes to GO. At this point it is installing devices or drivers, sorry I can't remember exactly. The computer then dies before re-starting and a message comes up telling me that re-install is resuming. Unfortunately, this process CONTINUES in a repeating cycle and I am unable to get past that point. Any suggestions please. Thanks for your time.You mean the computer just restarts itself right? I think that the drive isnt getting POWER like it should.  I had this happen before after reached that point an had to go in an disconnect and reconnect my drive.The 2 main causes of this symptom are bad copy/dirty CD and or RAM problems...
Gently clean the CD with a lint free cloth.
For the RAM DLoad and run MemTest...let it run at least 2 hours.
Any errors at all and you have a bad stik of RAM.The BIOS will say if it see's the drive just look for it, if nothing else PATIO had some good input.King Pincer - That's right, it just restarts itself.

Patio - I'll try cleaning the CD. Nice if it's that simple. However, I do not understand the other SUGGESTION (RAM DLoad and run Mem Test).

I can see that I should have given more info before. Before trying to re-install XP the computer was stuck in a loop where it would not complete a boot up but would get stuck in a cycle, never completing the boot up. This was after Dad downloaded Google Chrome (is this relevant?). I was advised to run the XP install disk to repair the system. As I have no idea of the administrator password (the computer is my Dad's) I opted for a re-install. My original post tells it from there. Thanks for all the suggestions, I hope I can make use of them but I'll start with the CD clean. Cheers.