Repair Installation

[Chris Conlon]

How do you perform a repair installation if XP came
already installed on my system? The only cds that I have
are the recovery cds. I have some error event ids 1000
and was told to do a repair installation. History, I had
trouble with my pc, I had to reuse recovery cds but during
the istall process I kept getting unable to extract
certain files. I took my PC back to the store and they
found I had a bad memory. They installed for free but I
was wondering should I reinstall using the recovery cds
since I had suck problems the last time I used them
because of my bad memory?

 

[Ron Martell]

How do you perform a repair installation if XP came
already installed on my system? The only cds that I have
are the recovery cds. I have some error event ids 1000
and was told to do a repair installation. History, I had
trouble with my pc, I had to reuse recovery cds but during
the istall process I kept getting unable to extract
certain files. I took my PC back to the store and they
found I had a bad memory. They installed for free but I
was wondering should I reinstall using the recovery cds
since I had suck problems the last time I used them
because of my bad memory?

Generally a "system recovery CD" cannot be used to do a Repair
Installation. The system recovery CDs do not usually contain the
actual files used for a new installation of XP. Rather they contain
an image of the installed product as it was when it left the factory.

You may have to do a complete recovery, which is basically a clean new
copy of Windows XP and all of your data files, configuration settings,
and installed applications will be wiped out.

Do you have a CD burner or some other way of backing up a large file?
If so then you can use the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" to
save your data and settings to a file on the hard drive and then burn
that file onto a CD. Then when you have used the recovery CDs and
your Windows is back to the "as new" condition you can use FASTW again
to import that saved data file back into Windows. You will also have
to reinstall your application programs, or at least the ones that are
not on the recovery cds. And also redo all of the Windows updates.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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