Vista - Premium Repair Install

I am considering a repair install for sometime in the future if I can't get the misc. issues fixed. I could do a clean install but wouldn't learn much that way.

HP laptop
Partition 1: Premium 32
P2: XP Pro 32
P3: Storage
P4: Ultimate 32

XP Pro & Ultimate are clean installs.

Premium on P1 is the manufacturer's preinstalled OS from which I have removed the bloatware, cleaned it up & installed SP1 but am left with a few quirky behaviors.

sfc /scannow doesn't find any integrity violations.

I have a Vista SP1 install DVD with all versions and the Upgrade/repair option is available in Premium using this DVD, I checked.

I've read the tutorial but just double checking to be sure.

I have everything imaged with Acronis but still wouldn't want to get into restoring the images.

Questions?

A repair install should only make changes to the Premium OS on P1?

I may have to repair my triple boot? (I'm using EasyBCD)

Any other thoughts or advice?

If you do your repair/upgrade install on P1, the other partitions won't be affected.
As P1 is, if i understand, OEM +SP1, there is a chance that the upgrade function will be grayed out. If it happens, deinstall sp1 before upgrading.

You will have to repair the triple boot, but it is not a major problem.

Thanks

I checked the upgrade function for P1 OEM + SP1 and it works, not greyed out.

Great, as sometimes it could happen.

Hi Glatzfront,

What are the "Misc Issues" your having with Vista?

Steven

The only Vista's I have are on the laptop and I seldom use it.

Premium with HP OEM bloat removed:
Slow to complete the boot was one issue, seemed like it wanted to almost stop at the side bar, also after installing SP1 the snipping tool would take a very long time to start.

I finally found the answer to these the other day after posting this thread. I used the configuration utility, selective startup and found that it was HP's QuickPlay causing the problems above. I reinstalled Quickplay and it fixed these two issues.

There have been some quirky behaviors in addition to these problems above but I seldom use Vista, so I will have to make a list as I rediscover them.

Thanks for asking.