I was trying to get my MBR fixed on my windows partition cause it said
something about NTLDR is missing and I tried fixing the MBR from doing
windows setup repair. After doing that I went through and I was about to give
up so I did clean install than I remembered about a boot disk my friend had
and got it from him and booted up a live distro of Windows. Now I seemed to
fix my problem "I think..." but now I am stuck trying to get windows to stop
doing the clean setup. I have to shut the computer down so windows won't do
the setup. My question is... where does Windows copy all the setup files on
my harddrive? Because it's doing a clean install without the CD now. Thanks.

Basically I am trying to cancel the clean install before it copies all my new
windows files over.

Kool-Aide wrote:
> I was trying to get my MBR fixed on my windows partition cause it
> said something about NTLDR is missing and I tried fixing the MBR
> from doing windows setup repair. After doing that I went through
> and I was about to give up so I did clean install than I remembered
> about a boot disk my friend had and got it from him and booted up a
> live distro of Windows. Now I seemed to fix my problem "I think..."
> but now I am stuck trying to get windows to stop doing the clean
> setup. I have to shut the computer down so windows won't do the
> setup. My question is... where does Windows copy all the setup
> files on my harddrive? Because it's doing a clean install without
> the CD now. Thanks.

If it has gotten to the installation part... well, how did you start the
install? Did you choose a partition that already existed OR did you delete
the partition and create a new one?

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I said I did a clean install which is where you don't format your computer
you just install new files over the old. But I am trying to stop the
installation process by using a boot cd and deleting the setup files. If it
screws the computer up oh well i'll reinstall but I am trying to find the
copied setup files on my HD so I can delete them and try to stop the
installation process.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Kool-Aide wrote:
> > I was trying to get my MBR fixed on my windows partition cause it
> > said something about NTLDR is missing and I tried fixing the MBR
> > from doing windows setup repair. After doing that I went through
> > and I was about to give up so I did clean install than I remembered
> > about a boot disk my friend had and got it from him and booted up a
> > live distro of Windows. Now I seemed to fix my problem "I think..."
> > but now I am stuck trying to get windows to stop doing the clean
> > setup. I have to shut the computer down so windows won't do the
> > setup. My question is... where does Windows copy all the setup
> > files on my harddrive? Because it's doing a clean install without
> > the CD now. Thanks.
>
> If it has gotten to the installation part... well, how did you start the
> install? Did you choose a partition that already existed OR did you delete
> the partition and create a new one?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

A clean install is when you format the partition before reinstalling the
system. An over the top (or repair) installation is what you attempted.

I have never tried to abort an installation and I don't know if it can be
done once initiated. What I would do is see if there is some way to kill
the installation routine using the Windows CD. Perhaps Shenan will have a
better idea.
--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007


"Kool-Aide" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news26EA9F0-FF62-4367-9F33-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I said I did a clean install which is where you don't format your computer
> you just install new files over the old. But I am trying to stop the
> installation process by using a boot cd and deleting the setup files. If
> it
> screws the computer up oh well i'll reinstall but I am trying to find the
> copied setup files on my HD so I can delete them and try to stop the
> installation process.

Yea I thought clean installation was the installing without formatting but
you're right I took a look at it again I did chose repair. But after I went
into the repair it gave me an option for formatting for FAT32 and NTFS and
doing a clean install which is what I chose. Which made me believe it was a
clean install. But clean install kind of doesn't sound right when you install
files over files. Anyways after that is said. I would love to find out how to
cancel the installation. If that would work my computer would be fixed. I
could always do a full reinstall but I don't want to if I don't have to. I
have everything backed up so no worries. Even if I did do a reinstall i'd
still like to know how to interrupt the install and where the setup files are
copied to just for future knowledge.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

> A clean install is when you format the partition before reinstalling the
> system. An over the top (or repair) installation is what you attempted.
>
> I have never tried to abort an installation and I don't know if it can be
> done once initiated. What I would do is see if there is some way to kill
> the installation routine using the Windows CD. Perhaps Shenan will have a
> better idea.
> --
> Regards
>
> Ron Badour
> MS MVP 1997 - 2007
>
>
> "Kool-Aide" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news26EA9F0-FF62-4367-9F33-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I said I did a clean install which is where you don't format your computer
> > you just install new files over the old. But I am trying to stop the
> > installation process by using a boot cd and deleting the setup files. If
> > it
> > screws the computer up oh well i'll reinstall but I am trying to find the
> > copied setup files on my HD so I can delete them and try to stop the
> > installation process.
>
>
>