Repair Install


  1. Posts : 5
    Win 7 Professional 64bit
       #1000

    Shawn, Thanks for the welcome and the response. After posting I re-read the tutorial and realized that was the case. Will try your suggestion tomorrow. Thanks, Joe
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  2. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #1001

    You're most welcome Joe. Please let us know how it went. :)
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  3. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #1002

    Brink I think I know why it's not working for my laptop.

    When checking for window updates (it says checking for updates forever in a continous loop)

    Any ideas why the "check for updates" continues checking and not finding any updates?
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  4. Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #1003

    mangoh said:
    Brink I think I know why it's not working for my laptop.

    When checking for window updates (it says checking for updates forever in a continous loop)

    Any ideas why the "check for updates" continues checking and not finding any updates?
    Are you connected to the internet?
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  5. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #1004

    derekimo said:
    mangoh said:
    Brink I think I know why it's not working for my laptop.

    When checking for window updates (it says checking for updates forever in a continous loop)

    Any ideas why the "check for updates" continues checking and not finding any updates?
    Are you connected to the internet?
    Yep

    I've noticed muweb.dll is missing

    I have windows 7 64 bit professional
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  6. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #1005

    Mangoh,

    Give it a try without checking for updates to see if it may able to still do the repair install.
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  7. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #1006

    Brink said:
    Mangoh,

    Give it a try without checking for updates to see if it may able to still do the repair install.
    Already have.

    Same issue, it randomly restarts when reinstalling windows.

    When restarting I get two options at the boot menu

    1) Windows setup (new)
    2) Windows 7 (default OS)

    When I boot into the windows setup option I get "windows installation could not start"

    When I boot into windows 7 (I get a message telling me installation failed)
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  8. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #1007

    Mangoh,

    I hate to say it, but you might consider doing a clean install of Windows 7 instead.
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  9. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #1008

    Brink said:
    Mangoh,

    I hate to say it, but you might consider doing a clean install of Windows 7 instead.
    One final thing and then I guess I'm going to have to give up

    just ain't got an external hard drive big enough to backup everything (not got the money).

    How about if I uninstall SP1 from my laptop and use my disk that doesn't include SP1 but is compatible as it is a 64 windows professional (same as my laptop if I uninstall SP1)?

    If you think this stands a chance of working, any ideas for a work around as when uninstalling SP1 it gets to the end and does NOTHING
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  10. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #1009

    To be honest, I think a repair install may not be able to help with the issues you are having.

    Are you able to create or use another partition on the same HDD to backup your data that wouldn't be touched by the installation process?
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