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Windows 7 repair woes
Hi there,
My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (upgraded ages ago from Vista - both discs 100% legal) has started to misbehave.
I had a hard disk crash recently shortly after installing SP1. It kept locking up EVERYTHING for 30 seconds every minute. Fortunately I could clone the disc via USB so I cloned it onto a new disk which amazingly seemed to work very well.
However I now discover many small things do not work such as the Task Scheduler won't run anything (I can't even create new tasks), the StartUp group won't run anything and I also cannot get the SearchIndexer service to start so the Find facility doesn't work well. Somehow the remaining 95% of the computer runs perfectly well and I can still do emails, surf and play games etc.
However I would like to mend it.
Since the crash I have no older System Restore options so I need to do an in-place repair or re-install however my discs are for Win7 original so when I run them I get an error saying 'Your computer has a newer version of the O/S already installed' (or words to that effect).
I've tried uninstalling SP1 but it won't let me - just comes up with a failure message.
I'm going to try re-installing SP1 on the off-chance that it repairs whatever is damaged but failing that how do I do an in-place re-install? Do I download a 'dodgy' torrent of Win7 SP1? Will that work with my valid serial number?
What else can I try?
Thanks in advance,
Aggrajag