How to find repair on XP CD

[chris]

Need to "repair" XD. Don't have that option on XP
upgrade CD. Where do I find it??

Thanks for your help

 

[Chris Lanier]

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Bob Knowlden]

Boot from the CD.

I believe that there are repairs that can be made from the repair console,
but I haven't used them.

I have done a number of repair installations:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

"How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP"

(In brief: change the BIOS settings to boot from the CD. Go to install,
rather than the repair console. Under install, select repair rather than
new.)

This ought to preserve most files, settings, and installed programs, but
you'll lose everything installed through Windows Update.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

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[Alex Nichol]

Need to "repair" XD. Don't have that option on XP
upgrade CD. Where do I find it??

Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start
Setup (do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then after the license
agreement take 'Repair Installation'. This will retain your existing
software installations and most settings. But Updates will have to be
run again, especially SP1; and if you have drivers that only arrived
with that, like USB 2 ones, you will need to update drivers for the
devices concerned. You may find that things like virtual memory
settings and some aspects of appearance have reverted to defaults