Alright I got a tiny problem.

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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?

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Ron Badour]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.