Install - repair install

[Grey]

Hi all.

Dud motherboard here nothing else playing up but put new motherboard and CPU
in and expected that I could do a repair install, install new motherboard
drivers and possibly have to validate all over again the same as you always
did with XP but no good. I cannot get into Windows at all so cant run repair
from WITHIN windows and no option from the boot DVD works. So, do you have
to lose everything each time you upgrade hardware or some part of it dies
meaning you are forced to upgrade hardware?

I installed from Vista Business pre SP1 and installed SP1 before the
motherboard died. Any help appreciated.

 

[DL]

You dont run a repair from within win, but boot up from the win cd/dvd &
repair from there

 

[DL]

Possibly incorrect; I now understand you cannot repair a Vista installation
when new hw is installed, but have to clean install

 

[Grey]

Repair install you have to do on almost all occasions but there is no need
to fresh install with XP. With Vista you don't have a choice but to fresh
install. Imagine the crap that will cause for major businesses!

 

[Grey]

Sorry but wrong. It is the opposite to which you say with Vista but with W2K
or XP you are right. I don't know why they changed it but there is no chance
to do a repair install in these circumstances with Vista.

 

[Grey]

Yep that is what I found out but I am trying to find someone to prove me
wrong. So far no luck.

 

[Grey]

Thanks for the info but to do an "upgrade" you would have to have that
option. Using the scenario I experienced:

My motherboard blew. I had previously had XP Pro on the machine and upgraded
to Vista Business with no probs. When the motherboard blew, I put another
in. I couldn't boot into Windows which was expected but I could boot off the
Vista disk and tried to do a repair install. When you get into the Vista
disk if you have already put SP1 in, you do *NOT* have the option to upgrade
as alluded to by the MVP on that web site. So, sorry, but this MAY well have
worked pre SP1 but it doesn't work after SP1. Thus, we are back to square
one where, if you have any hardware blow, unless you can supply exactly the
same hardware as before, you are stuffed. You can NOT repair install or
"upgrade".

 

[artfudd]

I am not positive about this, but I believe you should be able to do a startup
repair using a Vista slipstreamed standalone SP1 DVD since you have SP1 already
installed. If you do not have such a DVD, then you would have to have access to
the download for the slipstreamed Vista with SP1 ISO, and then burn a DVD.
Then, if that works to allow you to boot up, if necessary you should be able to
do a so-called 'in place' upgrade install over top from within Vista using that
same Vista SP1 DVD.

Maybe someone else can verify if I am correct (or not) about this..

 

[Grey]

Sorry mate but no way to do it.

The only possibility I see on the horizon is to get a Vista CD with SP1
already on it to repair install Vista with SP1. As I don't have that as yet,
I cant test the theory.

 

[Grey]

It's possible that a Vista SP1 DVD may allow repair install/upgrade but you
cant slipstream Vista and SP1 (MS has stopped that) so I will have to wait
until I can get one of the disks to be sure.

 

[Grey]

Yep, so I found out. There is the remote chance that it WILL work with a
disk that is Vista SP1 but not even sure about that until I can get my hands
on one.