What is next step in doing a recovery repair instillation of XP PRO?

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I have been having lots of problems getting XP PRO reinstalled. After lots
of problems I finally got a set of rescue disks made. The first time that I
selected which drive on which to attempt the repair instillation it rebooted
& gave me a message about NTLDR being missing. I had no idea as to what
that was so I just tried everything again.

I loaded the disks again & got to the stage where I had to choose which
drive I wanted to do a recovery reinstall on. Once I choose the drive it
asked for administrators password. I have never ever had a password on my
machines so I just pressed enter. What displayed was 'C:\WINDOWS>' What
does one try next besides take the machine to the shop? I am sending this
message from a laptop.

Thanks in advance?
 
Hi Videot,

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:23:16 +0800, "Videot"

[...]
I loaded the disks again & got to the stage where I had to choose which
drive I wanted to do a recovery reinstall on. Once I choose the drive it
asked for administrators password. I have never ever had a password on my
machines so I just pressed enter. What displayed was 'C:\WINDOWS>' What
does one try next besides take the machine to the shop? I am sending this
message from a laptop.
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I think you are ending up in the Recovery Console, which is not what
you want.

This site has a step-by-step guide to repair-install, which should
leave your data intact:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Good luck
 
What is the difference between 'the recovery console' & 'a repair -install'?

roger said:
Hi Videot,

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:23:16 +0800, "Videot"

[...]
I loaded the disks again & got to the stage where I had to choose which
drive I wanted to do a recovery reinstall on. Once I choose the drive it
asked for administrators password. I have never ever had a password on my
machines so I just pressed enter. What displayed was 'C:\WINDOWS>' What
does one try next besides take the machine to the shop? I am sending this
message from a laptop.
Click to expand...

I think you are ending up in the Recovery Console, which is not what
you want.

This site has a step-by-step guide to repair-install, which should
leave your data intact:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Good luck
Click to expand...
 
The recovey console fixes existing installations of Windows. A repair
install 'installs' a new installation on top of the other (it does not
ask for paswords), so you will have to go to Windows Update again.


What is the difference between 'the recovery console' & 'a repair -install'?

roger said:
Hi Videot,

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:23:16 +0800, "Videot"

[...]
I loaded the disks again & got to the stage where I had to choose which
drive I wanted to do a recovery reinstall on. Once I choose the drive it
asked for administrators password. I have never ever had a password on my
machines so I just pressed enter. What displayed was 'C:\WINDOWS>' What
does one try next besides take the machine to the shop? I am sending this
message from a laptop.
Click to expand...

I think you are ending up in the Recovery Console, which is not what
you want.

This site has a step-by-step guide to repair-install, which should
leave your data intact:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Good luck
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