Re: Windows 2003 "repair" installation from CD?
- From: "Star Fleet Admiral Q" <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)@(SPAM-NOT)hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:30:18 -0400
Suggestion: I would be posting this in one of the many Server Groups, as
this is a XP group. Although they may look similar, there are differences
and many of the components found in Win2k3 Server are not present in WinXP,
a desktop OS.
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"Thogek" <thogek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> thogek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Okay, I hate feeling stupid. And OS/boot issues make me feel stupid.
>
> Well, that hasn't changed. :-(
>
>> The Windows 2003 Server still greeted attempts to boot with a blank
>> black screen, so I used the Windows 2003 Server CD to run a "repair"
>> install on that partition. This repair worked, and afterwords I was
>> able to boot into the Windows 2003 Server partition without problem,
>> with all data files and installed programs intact.
>
> I'm having another issue with my Windows 2003 now, in a completely
> different case. After I installed some new RAM (a seemingly simple
> operation), my Windows 2003 Server partition again became inexplicably
> unbootable, while my Windows XP partition seems fine, and boot.ini
> behavior seems normal. A checkdisk on my Windows 2003 partition from
> the XP OS scrolled a long series of messages about fixing corrupted
> files, but the Windows 2003 OS still won't boot.
>
> Seems like a good candidate case to run the Windows 2003 "repair"
> install again, just as I did last time around.
>
> However, this time I'm not seeing the option on the installation CD's
> menus. I see options to drop the partition, or to do a fresh new
> install, or to start the Recovery Console (which gives me a
> command-line interface that I don't know what to do with), but nothing
> about a simple "repair" installation option (which I *know* I used last
> time).
>
> Last time, what I found and ran was called something like a "repair"
> install, executed a lot like a regular install, but simply repaired my
> current Windows 2003 install (by restoring lost/corrupted files, etc.)
> rather than overwriting a new one. (This restored my OS without my
> having to reinstall all my software, reconfigure accounts, etc.) Now I
> simply can't find that option. Maybe I'm somehow overstressing and
> missing it...
>
> Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and might be able to point my
> clueless self in the right direction?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Tom Kiefer
> thogek @ earthlink . net
>
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