how to repair xp home at the repair console ?

[Richard]

One of the kids installed something and now the box continually reboots.

When I :-

"Perform a Repair Installation
Posted: August 01, 2002

Submitted by Doug Knox, Windows XP MVP, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
For more tips by Doug, visit Doug's Windows Tweaks and Tips
Find more on the Expert Zone from Doug Knox.
How do you perform a reinstallation of Windows XP, sometimes called a repair
installation?
Configure your computer to start from the CD-ROM drive. For more information
about how to do this, refer to your computer's documentation or contact your
computer manufacturer. Then insert your Windows XP Setup CD, and restart
your computer.
When the Press any key to boot from CD message is displayed on your screen,
press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.
Press ENTER when you see the message To setup Windows XP now, and then press
ENTER displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen.
Do not choose the option to press R to use the Recovery Console.
In the Windows XP Licensing Agreement, press F8 to agree to the license
agreement.
Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the
box, and then press R to repair Windows XP.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
See these Knowledge Base articles for more information on reinstalling
Windows XP: How To: Troubleshoot Windows XP Setup Problems When You Upgrade
from Windows 98 or Windows Me.
Back to the User Tips home page"

After pressing F8 I get just two items in the box, top is "Unpartitioned
space 2008mb"
and "Partition 1 (HDD) [NTFS] 37072mb ( 23992 MB free )

and there's no "R" to press ?

any ideas ?

TIA, RJ

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Does it see the existing installation? If so, it should be listed. The "r"
option will only be there when an existing installation is selected for
repair.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Richard]

hello, the only r that was ever available was to go to the recovery console.
And seeing as there wasn't even an edit.exe/com available, and even
attrib.exe wouldn't work properly, (why on earth MS had to change the syntax
for old dos externals' god only knows - try doing an attrib -r -h -s
boot.ini and even that falls flat on its' face, you have to change one flag
at a time!), I gave up, and proceeded to install into C:\ where it already
was, and where xp home kindly advised me that the existing windows
installation would be destroyed. As for that recovery console, words escape
me to be able to express my hatred at MS for not even making an ascii editor
available ! I'm surprised they didn't put edlin back in
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RJ

Hi,

Does it see the existing installation? If so, it should be listed. The "r"
option will only be there when an existing installation is selected for
repair.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

One of the kids installed something and now the box continually reboots.

When I :-

"Perform a Repair Installation
Posted: August 01, 2002

Submitted by Doug Knox, Windows XP MVP, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
For more tips by Doug, visit Doug's Windows Tweaks and Tips
Find more on the Expert Zone from Doug Knox.
How do you perform a reinstallation of Windows XP, sometimes called a repair
installation?
Configure your computer to start from the CD-ROM drive. For more information
about how to do this, refer to your computer's documentation or contact your
computer manufacturer. Then insert your Windows XP Setup CD, and restart
your computer.
When the Press any key to boot from CD message is displayed on your screen,
press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.
Press ENTER when you see the message To setup Windows XP now, and then press
ENTER displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen.
Do not choose the option to press R to use the Recovery Console.
In the Windows XP Licensing Agreement, press F8 to agree to the license
agreement.
Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the
box, and then press R to repair Windows XP.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
See these Knowledge Base articles for more information on reinstalling
Windows XP: How To: Troubleshoot Windows XP Setup Problems When You Upgrade
from Windows 98 or Windows Me.
Back to the User Tips home page"

After pressing F8 I get just two items in the box, top is "Unpartitioned
space 2008mb"
and "Partition 1 (HDD) [NTFS] 37072mb ( 23992 MB free )

and there's no "R" to press ?

any ideas ?

TIA, RJ

 

[Michael Stevens]

hello, the only r that was ever available was to go to the recovery
console. And seeing as there wasn't even an edit.exe/com available,
and even attrib.exe wouldn't work properly, (why on earth MS had to
change the syntax for old dos externals' god only knows - try doing
an attrib -r -h -s boot.ini and even that falls flat on its' face,
you have to change one flag at a time!), I gave up, and proceeded to
install into C:\ where it already was, and where xp home kindly
advised me that the existing windows installation would be destroyed.
As for that recovery console, words escape me to be able to express
my hatred at MS for not even making an ascii editor available ! I'm
surprised they didn't put edlin back in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RJ

Hi,

Does it see the existing installation? If so, it should be listed.
The "r" option will only be there when an existing installation is
selected for repair.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

One of the kids installed something and now the box continually
reboots.

When I :-

"Perform a Repair Installation
Posted: August 01, 2002

Submitted by Doug Knox, Windows XP MVP, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
For more tips by Doug, visit Doug's Windows Tweaks and Tips
Find more on the Expert Zone from Doug Knox.
How do you perform a reinstallation of Windows XP, sometimes called
a repair installation?
Configure your computer to start from the CD-ROM drive. For more
information about how to do this, refer to your computer's
documentation or contact your computer manufacturer. Then insert
your Windows XP Setup CD, and restart your computer.
When the Press any key to boot from CD message is displayed on your
screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.
Press ENTER when you see the message To setup Windows XP now, and
then press ENTER displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen.
Do not choose the option to press R to use the Recovery Console.
In the Windows XP Licensing Agreement, press F8 to agree to the
license agreement.
Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected
in the box, and then press R to repair Windows XP.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
See these Knowledge Base articles for more information on
reinstalling Windows XP: How To: Troubleshoot Windows XP Setup
Problems When You Upgrade from Windows 98 or Windows Me.
Back to the User Tips home page"

After pressing F8 I get just two items in the box, top is
"Unpartitioned space 2008mb"
and "Partition 1 (HDD) [NTFS] 37072mb ( 23992 MB free )

and there's no "R" to press ?

any ideas ?

TIA, RJ

Try the fix in the second warning on the Repair Install link below.
Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
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[Richard]

Thanks Michael,

I've bookmarked your site for future reference. This particular PC finally
revealed what had caused the original constant rebooting. i.e. after
running flawlessly for about three hours, the hd started making a
"clunk,,,,,cullllunk" noise, every two seconds approx. !

Twas a Packard Bell XP1600 1.4ghz 256mb 40gb hd. It started up a second
time after being switched off in disgust the night before, and behaved
itself long enough for me to zip up and backout to three floppies, 3.4mb's
worth of AMR modem drivers, that was of most concern to me, seeing as xp
home didn't want anything to do with that modem. That was the only bit of
hardware showing in DM as having no drivers installed for it, after
installing xp home.

Fortunately this was a "family pc" with little or no important data files in
it. New hd going in later.

Again, thanks.

RJ

hello, the only r that was ever available was to go to the recovery
console. And seeing as there wasn't even an edit.exe/com available,
and even attrib.exe wouldn't work properly, (why on earth MS had to
change the syntax for old dos externals' god only knows - try doing
an attrib -r -h -s boot.ini and even that falls flat on its' face,
you have to change one flag at a time!), I gave up, and proceeded to
install into C:\ where it already was, and where xp home kindly
advised me that the existing windows installation would be destroyed.
As for that recovery console, words escape me to be able to express
my hatred at MS for not even making an ascii editor available ! I'm
surprised they didn't put edlin back in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RJ

Hi,

Does it see the existing installation? If so, it should be listed.
The "r" option will only be there when an existing installation is
selected for repair.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



One of the kids installed something and now the box continually
reboots.

When I :-

"Perform a Repair Installation
Posted: August 01, 2002

Submitted by Doug Knox, Windows XP MVP, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
For more tips by Doug, visit Doug's Windows Tweaks and Tips
Find more on the Expert Zone from Doug Knox.
How do you perform a reinstallation of Windows XP, sometimes called
a repair installation?
Configure your computer to start from the CD-ROM drive. For more
information about how to do this, refer to your computer's
documentation or contact your computer manufacturer. Then insert
your Windows XP Setup CD, and restart your computer.
When the Press any key to boot from CD message is displayed on your
screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.
Press ENTER when you see the message To setup Windows XP now, and
then press ENTER displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen.
Do not choose the option to press R to use the Recovery Console.
In the Windows XP Licensing Agreement, press F8 to agree to the
license agreement.
Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected
in the box, and then press R to repair Windows XP.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
See these Knowledge Base articles for more information on
reinstalling Windows XP: How To: Troubleshoot Windows XP Setup
Problems When You Upgrade from Windows 98 or Windows Me.
Back to the User Tips home page"

After pressing F8 I get just two items in the box, top is
"Unpartitioned space 2008mb"
and "Partition 1 (HDD) [NTFS] 37072mb ( 23992 MB free )

and there's no "R" to press ?

any ideas ?

TIA, RJ

Try the fix in the second warning on the Repair Install link below.
Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm