Windows 7 - Repair Install

**Brink** · 02-02-2009

How to Do a Repair Install to Fix Windows 7

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Click here to read the entire tutorial

rbassman98003 · 10-14-2009

I have been preparing myself for this ever since the Windows Media
Center fiasco... I appreciate all the attempts to recover.. I've been running with the RTM build from MSDN. Guess I'll wait for the 22nd
release and install that one.. Thanks for all your help and patient.

**Travelin** · 10-27-2009

Hello Brink,

My Windows 7 x64 upgrade is activated. Is there anything I should do differently?

Thanks,

T.

**Brink** · 10-27-2009

Hello Travelin,

I'm not sure what you mean, but you can still do a repair install if your Windows 7 is activated without having to do anything different.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

**Travelin** · 10-27-2009

Shawn,

In Step 12, you say to uncheck the Automatically activate Windows when I'm online box. I was curious if I should check or not check this box, or perhaps, since my Windows 7 is already activated, that will not appear.

Thanks,

Paul

**Brink** · 10-27-2009

Oh, ok. Yes, it will still appear during installation, and you will need to activate again after the install as well.

I recommend to always leave that box unchecked, so instead of Windows 7 trying to automatically activate in 3-days, you can have 30 days by default to activate manually in case you wanted or needed to activate later than 3 days. That's all.

**Travelin** · 10-27-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

Oh, ok. Yes, it will still appear during installation, and you will need to activate again after the install as well.

Thanks, that's what I was curious about, whether Windows 7 will need to be activated again.

**Brink** · 10-28-2009

You're welcome.

**zx81** · 10-28-2009

Very nice tutorial Brink!

I have one question, if you have a activated version of Windows 7, why should you activate it again after the Repair Install upgrade?

Kind regards,

zx81

**Brink** · 10-28-2009

Hi zx81,

Anytime you install, you will have to activate. It's just Microsoft's way of making sure that you are not a Captain Blackbeard pirate. That's all.

**crnv88** · 11-23-2009

This is great what if you cannot boot into Win 7 in the first place? Then how do you do a "repair"?
In XP, you can boot up from your XP disc, go thru the various prompts and eventually select "repair install". Is this possible with Win &?
Thanks.

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