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| Thread ID: 100542 | 2009-06-11 21:33:00 | Win 7 Repair | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 781494 | 2009-06-13 07:40:00 | There are several options. Firstly, you can reboot your computer and tapping the F8 key to bring up the options. At the first option is "Repair windows". Pressing the Enter key will bring up five more options, where the first one is "Starting Repair" and so on. Secondly, you can boot with the Windows 7 Dvd, go through the prompts, making sure custom installation is selected. After a while there will be a confirmation dialog to either install or repair windows 7. Hope this will help. |
kamo1 (14583) | ||
| 781495 | 2009-06-14 06:25:00 | Yes you can do a repair install on Windows 7 Similar to Xp This article tells how (www.sevenforums.com) -- I've Just tried it out (www.imagef1.net.nz) -- Worked perfectly - only thing I lost was the original desktop wall paper (big deal) but it was in the same location as I put it ( My Pictures). Only thing I have not tried is doing a repair install on a system that is not bootable into windows first, but that will come :lol: For the not bootable cases it's cool that Windows 7 creates a partition for the Windows Recovery Environment (en.wikipedia.org) by default. You could get this in Vista too but as far as I could tell it was a lot of effort to set up as a separate partition, with Windows 7 it's just there. Not that I've had to use it yet but it sounds helpful. Does the Upgrade to Repair trick work if you boot form the install disk? I'm expecting it's no because the description of how to do it says to start the process from Windows. |
Saucy (14844) | ||
| 781496 | 2009-06-14 06:41:00 | For the not bootable cases it's cool that Windows 7 creates a partition for the Windows Recovery Environment (en.wikipedia.org) by default. You could get this in Vista too but as far as I could tell it was a lot of effort to set up as a separate partition, with Windows 7 it's just there. Not that I've had to use it yet but it sounds helpful. Does the Upgrade to Repair trick work if you boot form the install disk? I'm expecting it's no because the description of how to do it says to start the process from Windows. There's no need for that partition really if you've got a Vista recovery Cd(free) or your W7 Cd, or just create on with the tool provided on W7 And No- thats one of the bad things about it. It doesn't even work in safe mode either |
Blam (54) | ||
| 781497 | 2009-06-15 10:19:00 | Find a Feburary 2006 magazine to find out how to make a windows CD | TechProX (14940) | ||
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