I believe, but have not done a statistical comparison, that the repair
install in XP is far more reliable and pretty much guaranteed to fix a
broken XP than any of the Win RE tools.
It would be very interesting to me to do a statistical study with enough
numbers comparing a repair install of Vista and the Win RE tools like but
not excluded to Start up repair.
You can sometimes fix Vista using one of the F8 options also, and
anecdotally but with no statistical comparison a system restorer from the
DVD recovery option (Win RE) seems to be more reliable than a system restore
from F7 on Vista.
CH
"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> John Barnett MVP wrote:
>> Malke it is possible to do an 'upgrade' over the original installation of
>> Vista. I have tried it and it did work. A bit of a pain in the backside
>> when, after the upgrade had completed, and Vista nicely told me that I
>> was running an illegal copy (that's a laugh). But it was easy enough to
>> sort out. I haven't had time to update my website with the instructions
>> for an upgrade over the original, but i'm hoping to get it done soon.
>>
>
> Thank you so much, John. Since I haven't had to do a repair of my own
> Vista install and since not that many of my clients have gone to Vista
> (only people buying new laptops), I don't have any hands-on experience
> with Vista repair installs yet.
>
> It will be a learning experience for all of us! ;-)
>
> Thanks again and I'll keep an eye on your excellent site.
>
>
> Malke
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