Vista - Re: Repair Install

Hi, Churin.

For Vista, select Upgrade. As you probably know, "Repair Install" is also
known as "In-place Upgrade". In Vista, we just "upgrade" from Vista to
Vista.

I had to do it once, about 6 weeks ago. It was only moderately painful: it
took about 6 hours, much of the time I spent looking at a blank screen with
little or no feedback, or watching it reboot - again. But it finally
finished and only minor re-tweaking was needed. All my hardware still
worked and all my applications worked and my data was safe.

As I said, I did it only once, so I can't say if my experience was typical.
But I would not be afraid to try it again if sfc /scannow didn't work and I
felt there was no better solution. But I would try the simpler "Repair"
first, to see if just fixing the boot-up configuration is sufficient,
without redoing the whole operating system.

Let us know what you decide to do, and how well it works.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275)

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