Vista Repair

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?

Merle wrote:
> 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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Merle wrote:

> 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
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Windows Vista Repair Options:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/windows...ir_options.htm


"Merle" <> wrote in message news:C8C91A95-3ABF-487F-A5C0-...
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?

"Merle" <> wrote in message
news:C8C91A95-3ABF-487F-A5C0-...
> 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.

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" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
>
> "Merle" <> wrote in message
> news:C8C91A95-3ABF-487F-A5C0-...
>> 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.

I'm glad that you got it working again.

Ron

"Merle" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> 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" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>>
>> "Merle" <> wrote in message
>> news:C8C91A95-3ABF-487F-A5C0-...
>>> 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.
>
>
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