Reinstall/Repair?

[Chris Cowles]

Is there a process by which I can reinstall Vista Ultimate so that it
repairs an existing install? Perhaps foolishly, I installed SP1 RC.
Initially it ran well. A week (or two?) my hard disk is trashing
constantly (like background defrag) and everything's slow as molasses.
That includes web screen flips, file reads, email, etc. I suspect it's
SP1 RC but am not certain, as I've installed other software since,
that being HP Solution Center for my wireless AIO printer.

I uninstalled SP1 RC but nothing improved. If I can refresh or repair
the existing Vista Ultimate, I'd like to try. I've been unable to
determine if there are other problems. My alternative is a full
rebuild and reinstall, which I'd really rather not do.

TIA

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Chris,

Vista has no repair install like XP did. This is due in part to how it is
installed compared to previous versions of Windows. You can only create a
new installation without formatting (provided you have sufficient drive
space), then recover data from the old installation in a windows.old folder
that will be created. Programs will need to be reinstalled from their
original installation media.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Bob]

If you have a restore point prior to the SP1 install use it.

If your restore points don't go back that far Run sfc /scannow.

 

[PaulB]

Un upgrade install is eqivalent to a repair install.

 

[PaulB]

BTW have you tries a system restore?

 

[Chris Cowles]

BTW have you tries a system restore?

Restore points don't go back that far, unfortunately.

 

[Chris Cowles]

If you have a restore point prior to the SP1 install use it.

If your restore points don't go back that far Run sfc /scannow.

Results:

Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix
some of them.
Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For
example
C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log

I looked in the log but didn't find anything explicitly listing the
files that remain corrupt.

Where to from here?

The disk is thrashing much less but I haven't rebooted yet.

 

[Bob]

Reboot. If problem unresolved run sfc \scannow in safe mode. If problem
still unresolved Run CHKDSK (takes a loong time).