Re: WinXP Repair does nothing!

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 01/24/05


Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:31:21 +1100

It been years since I last saw setup. But 2000 and XP are the same. Exact same sequence. You progress further through setup and you get the option of another R which from memory gives you an auto choice or you can choose which of 3 fixes to apply.

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"Morituri-|-Max" <newage@sendarico.net> wrote in message news:_1YId.45964$_56.26545@fe2.texas.rr.com...
> David Candy wrote:
>> XP and 2000 are the same. If you choose first R it's recovery
>> console, if you wait a bit you'll get another chance to Repair in NT4
>> style.
>>
>> Type Help in the recovery console, what else. I wouldn't even
>> consider using the recovery console as commands are undocumented (in
>> their exact technical details), it's fairly useless for most things.
>>
>> For minor problems I use the second GUI repair (and it was in 2000 I
>> last used it) and major problems a parallel install.
> 
> Hmmm, very strange.. how long do I have to wait for the second GUI thing to 
> appear?  Everytime I have used Win2000 repair it has done so right off the 
> bat, not waited for a certain amount of time to start up..  so there seems 
> to be SOME difference between the two.. how nice of microsoft to tell me.. 
> heh heh
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
>


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