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09-17-2007
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| | Repair install of Vista I can find no way to do the equivalent of an XP repair install of Vista. This is when you boot from the XP cd, tell it to install, it finds an existing copy of XP and offers to repair it. I use this when a motherboard fails or a customer buys a new PC and I clone the drive and use this to avoid having to re-install all of the applications. Please advise. Dennis Jennings |
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09-17-2007
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| | Re: Repair install of Vista I had a repair option on the DVD for Vista Ultimate when I booted. What version are you using? Dennis Jennings wrote: Quote: > I can find no way to do the equivalent of an XP repair install of Vista. > This is when you boot from the XP cd, tell it to install, it finds an > existing copy of XP and offers to repair it. I use this when a > motherboard fails or a customer buys a new PC and I clone the drive and > use this to avoid having to re-install all of the applications. > > Please advise. > > Dennis Jennings |
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09-18-2007
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| | RE: Repair install of Vista It has a repair option. You have to boot from DVD, same as boot from CD for XP, LOL "Dennis Jennings" wrote: Quote: > I can find no way to do the equivalent of an XP repair install of Vista. > This is when you boot from the XP cd, tell it to install, it finds an > existing copy of XP and offers to repair it. I use this when a motherboard > fails or a customer buys a new PC and I clone the drive and use this to > avoid having to re-install all of the applications. > > Please advise. > > Dennis Jennings > |
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09-19-2007
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| | Re: Repair install of Vista Yes there is a repair option, but this isn't the same as a re-install which is what is required when you change the motherboard--I tried it and it gave up and said that it couldn't repair the system. "Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:7F3AA44E-DD44-4D6E-8BAA-CCA13FA79996@xxxxxx Quote: > It has a repair option. You have to boot from DVD, same as boot from CD > for > XP, LOL > > "Dennis Jennings" wrote: > Quote: >> I can find no way to do the equivalent of an XP repair install of Vista. >> This is when you boot from the XP cd, tell it to install, it finds an >> existing copy of XP and offers to repair it. I use this when a >> motherboard >> fails or a customer buys a new PC and I clone the drive and use this to >> avoid having to re-install all of the applications. >> >> Please advise. >> >> Dennis Jennings >> |
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