Windows 7: Repair Install

Excellent...thanks...I'll look at this in the morning.

Is this the same as the "create a system repair disk" from the control panel/backup rstore?

Hello sverne,

No. This is for doing an in-place upgrade installation with the same Windows 7 edition to repair your current Windows 7 installation.

A System Repair Disk is just a boot disc that allows you to boot to the "System Recovery Options" screen.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Shawn.
What about "recovery disks"? I made 2 from my control panel. Will these do the same type of fix as you outlined? If not I'll download from the Dell link.

If you mean Dell factory recovery disks, then no. They will format the hard drive, and restore Windows 7 back to factory conditions.

Registered to this forum and with a serious issue vith 7 x64 I stumbled upon this thread and while I'm typing this message, my desktop is trying the solution you provided.

Regarding this, one thing comes to my mind.... How a repair install can, based on the importation of parameters proven to be corrupted (i.e the old registry), set a clean new os ?

Hello Idoru,

A repair install is basically just an in-place upgrade installation using the same edition of Windows 7. This workaround to upgrade your current Windows 7 installation will usually repair Windows 7 unless the corruption is to great. In those cases, only a clean install will help.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Obviously you're right ! As my box did restart, with some applications in place, some needed to be re installed.

About these in place, there is some work to do as my widget engine (konfabulator, ex yahoo widget), running from the initial start-up has yet shown me some weakness : some widget not showing the change in their preferences.

I will see in the hours to come the amount of the work to be done to retreive my old box but saddly I'm afraid that my real move will be to do a fresh clean install.... ARggggg.... So many applications, configurations.... Damned, I really need to buy some HDD and proceed like I did in the xp time : image my system upon a regular basis and stick to that !

PS : I used ERUNT & ERDNT but they weren't enough....

Yeah, keeping a good updated system image sure can be handy when needed.

Sure... As 4 hours in the process ended with a stop xxxxxx error related to NTFS.sys when I was reinstalling comodo firewall ! ;.((

I already know my schedule tomorrow : clean fresh install.

Windows7 is sure a robust OS but when it begins to crash it doesn't stand the comparison with xp.