Repair Installation w/ OEM? XP rebooting.

From: daygo140 (daygo140_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:57:03 -0800

Can you do a repair installation with an OEM copy of Window's XP Pro?
Windows XP Pro is bundled into the restoration disks for this Compaq
computer. All I ever known an OEM copy doing is when you boot-up with the
restoration CD it prompts you with a warning message saying if you continue
you will delete any saved files you have on your HDD; never giving you an
option to do a repair install.

Reason for doing this is at normal boot-up it gives you the "Diagnostic
Start-up/F8" screen/prompt. You can choose ANY of the options, including
safe mode and last known good config, and the results are always the same; it
doesn't fully load Windows and then automatically reboots into the F8 screen
again. Only thing I can think of is do a repair install. But the other
bottle-neck, as mentioned above, is the fact that they have only a OEM/Compaq
copy of Windows XP Pro.

It sounds like I'm going to slave that HDD, save the user's important files
and data, and do a clean installation of Windows XP Pro using the Compaq
restoration disks for that PC.

Any other ideas or possible solutions?

 
 

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