Re: Repairing Vista

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Then you have no repair options and will need to complete a side-by-side installation. This you can do by not formatting during setup. The existing installation will be moved to a windows.old folder where you can later recover data from. You will not be able to recover installed software and user accounts, these will need to be recreated. It won't matter what service pack level disk you use for this.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Wiley C" <WileyC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5C6CD9CD-EE32-4783-A395-8DE58945936F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
RR:
Thank you for the link. However, if the problem includes a BSOD of 0xf4 and
not being able to access Windows, your link will not work. I apologize for
not including the limitation of not being able to access the desktop.

WC

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

First, Vista does not offer a repair install like XP did due to a change in
the way the installation is done. However, you can do an in-place upgrade as
described here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html

Second, like with XP, you can't use an SP0 disk to install over or upgrade
an SP1 installation. It has to be at the same or higher SP level. You don't
need to buy a DVD though, just copy a friend's.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Wiley C" <WileyC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B5971011-BA35-456B-9F1D-3C0BEDC403FE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> am familiar with the repair option, ' startup repair", from the Vista > DVD,
> or
> from the OEM.
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx
>
> In XP, if a PC developed an error and the fix was to try a repair
> installation, if the XP PC had been upgraded from, for example, SP0 to > SP1
> and the user tried the repair using the XP SP1 installation CD [ not an
> upgrade CD ] [ for example http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341 ],
> messages
> often appeared, informing the user that a file was missing.
>
> If a user tries to repair Vista SP1, with a Vista SP0 DVD, does the > same
> thing occur? If so, other than buying a Vista DVD, what can be done to > fix
> the issue?
>
> Thanks for your time & comments.



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