What Happened to the Repair Feature in Win98?

[Guest]

Used to be that Win98SE could be over-written, repaired if something got
corrupted, by loading the win98 Upgrade CD. This technique would straight
out repair Win98.

Then, in win2000Pro, if you launched the CD and choose R for Repair, it
would over-write and repair the windows 2000 installation.

Then came WinXP Pro and I personally gave winXP 64bit Pro a try, drivers
were a constant issue, and it seems that the ability for the CD to
"reinstall" was removed.

Is the ASR disk the only way to just "run a repair" in WinXP?

Is there any trick to over-writing the Windows install like I did in win98SE
and win2000?

All of the re-install method I'm talking about left all data safe and
intact. Just reloaded Windows.

Curious for a trick if you have one...


Benjamin

 

[thecreator]

Hi Benjamin,

Start > Run > Type in cmd and click OK. In the DOS Command Window type
in sfc /scannow and hit enter. Have the Windows XP CD in the CD Drive.

 

[Nepatsfan]

In

Used to be that Win98SE could be over-written, repaired if
something
got corrupted, by loading the win98 Upgrade CD. This
technique would
straight out repair Win98.

Then, in win2000Pro, if you launched the CD and choose R for
Repair,
it would over-write and repair the windows 2000 installation.

Then came WinXP Pro and I personally gave winXP 64bit Pro a
try,
drivers were a constant issue, and it seems that the ability
for the
CD to "reinstall" was removed.

Is the ASR disk the only way to just "run a repair" in WinXP?

Is there any trick to over-writing the Windows install like I
did in
win98SE and win2000?

All of the re-install method I'm talking about left all data
safe and
intact. Just reloaded Windows.

Curious for a trick if you have one...


Benjamin

Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP
How to Perform an XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Courtesy of Microsoft
How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341&ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[AJR]

What "trick" - what you were doing with 98 was reinstalling the OS. In
addition to reinstall, XP has two repair options.

#1 - Boot from XP CD - first repair option will be the Recovery Console.
#2. Ignore recovery console option - proceed as if doing an install - next
option will be to repair the current XP installation.

Do some research _RTFM.

 

[Guest]

Thank you to everyone who had a thought of how the OS can be reinstalled
over itself.


Benjamin

 

[Guest]

Do some research _RTFM.

Nope, it's MS who should've done that. Logic (?) of their install process is:

1. User wants to repair windows.
2. User runs setup
3. User is asked "Do you want to repair.."
4. User answers "yes"
5. User is 'dead-ended' in the Recovery Console.
6. User spends many hours RTFM-ing the Recovery Console commands in the hope
of finding a (nonexistent) repair option.
6. As a result of this flawed logic, user never sees the actual repair
option, and believes none exists.