Vista Repair

[Merle]

I would like to try a system repair but when I put my windows vista premium
disk into the dvd player it only gives me the option to install and not
repair. How do I go about getting the repair option?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I would like to try a system repair but when I put my windows vista
premium disk into the dvd player it only gives me the option to install
and not repair. How do I go about getting the repair option?

Unfortunately, Vista lacks the capability of performing a true repair
installation, in the manner of Win2K and WinXP.


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[Malke]

I would like to try a system repair but when I put my windows vista
premium disk into the dvd player it only gives me the option to install
and not
repair. How do I go about getting the repair option?

You need to get your hardware issues straightened out first. Based on your
other post (which I answered), doing the Vista equivalent of a repair
install (see link) will be useless unless you're asking this about a
different computer.

Repair A Vista Installation Using The Upgrade Option Of The Vista DVD -
http://tinyurl.com/3b7yrj

Malke

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows Vista Repair Options:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/windows_vista_repair_options.htm


I would like to try a system repair but when I put my windows vista premium
disk into the dvd player it only gives me the option to install and not
repair. How do I go about getting the repair option?

 

[Bogey Man]

I would like to try a system repair but when I put my windows vista
premium disk into the dvd player it only gives me the option to install
and not repair. How do I go about getting the repair option?

I was having a bunch of problems which started with the installation of
Photo Elements 6 on my Quad Core machine running Vista Home Premium 64. The
uninstall didn't solve the problems introduced neither did a system restore.
I ran msconfig and enabled the boot log. The next start-up (had problems
with boot) a log was generated and it was a monster file of nearly 900K.
Looking through it, it was obvious to me that something was blocking a
number of drivers from loading.

On a hunch, I ran sfc /scannow from an Administrator command prompt. This
took a long time to run and it eventually finished.

I found and deleted the boot log file and rebooted. This time the computer
booted correctly and the log file was only 16K with nothing of any real
consequence being a problem.

You might want to try the same route before doing something more drastic.

 

[Merle]

Thanks a lot. It seems my problem was mostly dust so after a good cleaning
my PC is working like new.
My PC was rebooting over and over again so I thought it might have been a
bad file or something. Anyway thanks again for the reply.

 

[Bogey Man]

I'm glad that you got it working again.

Ron

Thanks a lot. It seems my problem was mostly dust so after a good
cleaning my PC is working like new.
My PC was rebooting over and over again so I thought it might have been a
bad file or something. Anyway thanks again for the reply.