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  1. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #600

    Brink said:
    Hello Thoru, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    It's most likely due to you having SP1 installed, and your installation disc doesn't have SP1 included. If this is so, then uninstalling SP1 may allow you to do the repair install afterwards. Please check the items in red WARNING box at the top of the tutorial to see if anything else may apply.

    Hope this helps for now,
    Shawn
    It's not unistalling for me. I left it running for 2 hours and nothing happened
    Last edited by Brink; 02 Aug 2011 at 10:21. Reason: added quote
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  2. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #601

    Thoru,

    It appears that you may need to do a clean or custom install of Windows 7 instead then.
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  3. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #602

    It couldn't be anything else? I mean my computer is running strangely slow right now so could that have anything to do with it?
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  4. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #603

    Thoru,

    It could be from a number of things. You might scan your system with Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper at boot and later with Malwarebytes free to help make sure your system is malware free.

    If it doesn't help, then it's usually just best to backup what you do not want to lose and do a clean install.
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  5. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #604

    Can you do a custom and not lose everything?
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  6. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #605

    Yes, a custom install will place a copy of your current installation in the C:\Windows.old folder in the new installation. After the new installation is finished, you could copy any files you want back from within the C:\Windows.old folder to where you like in the new installation. You will still need to reinstall all programs and drivers though. To be safe, I would still recommend that you backup anything that you do not want to lose in case something bad happens (ex: power loss) during the installation.
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  7. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #606

    OK, thanks. It seems we don't have much that looks important so i'll be trying that later on.
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  8. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #607

    Ok. Please let us know how it went. :)
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  9. Posts : 41
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64-bit SP1
       #608

    THANKS!!!


    Shawn,

    Everything went GREAT on the Repair Install from the Anytime Upgrade I used Windows7 Ultimate SP1 CD

    The Anytime Upgrade was from "Home Premium to Ultimate" So it can be done just have to get the right CD to do it.

    Only one problem is that step 18 the two folders that are on the C:\ drive don't show up on the Disk Clean Up can I just delete them manually?

    Thanks Again this saved me alot of time.

    Also it deleted Windows XP Mode & Windows Virtual PC. Just so everyone knows. Simple to fix

    Kevin
    Last edited by Keyoung59; 10 Aug 2011 at 17:39. Reason: Windows XP Mode
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  10. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Thread Starter
       #609

    That's great news Kevin. Thank you for posting back with your results. :)

    Is that a "retail" Windows7 Ultimate SP1 CD copy that you used?
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