Repair/fix a really really really old win7 ultimate

Hi,

I have, as says the title, a really really really old win7 ultimate more than 10 years old which got customised, with 3 tons of installed/uninstalled software.

Everything worked great until I discovered recently that the network adapter (realtek on motherboard) is 100Mb rather than gigabit and I'm not able anymore to install my soundcard.
The adapter isn't faulty as I checked it in a W10 dual boot.

So I thought to repair it... Unfortunately when I launch setup from the desktop it opens and closes immediately or if it opens it lets me choose country and language but there isn't any next button available or arrow to go on thru the process.

Does somebody know of a work around ?


Thanks in advance for any hep/tip.

Let's do the basic.

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart
Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc

Back to Windows, open a CMD window as administrator and type:
sfc /scannow

If it finds any corrupted files, fixing or not, reboot and run again

First of all, Thank you for you time.

About my system disk, I use hard disk sentinel (S.M.A.R.T data) and it's fine, nothing here.
About my windows copy (thanks a lot for the offer), I use a .iso file mounted in daemon tools. I've come to a windows related issue as my gigabit network adapter was limited (shown) as 100Mbs and having uninstalled my whole sound environment due to issues, I couldn't succeed re instaling it.

Oddly, I've restored a 3 days before sound uninstall backup and my network adapter is now a gigabit and my sound card ok.

I've also tried to begin windows intallation like a fresh install, outside the system from startup and the process went well.


The problem is that my windows is at least 10 years old, customized, tweaked, with tons of software installed and uninstalled, unstable from a point of view but very stable from day to day use.

a big thanks but what is that updatepack7R2 qsimplix file ?

Well.. I don't know what to think as I've tried different things and none of them worked.

I'm french so I have a W7 ultimate SP1 in french (If my memory doesn't fail me, I did installed a EN-US version and applied a french language). So I tried to repair with a french W7 SP1...And got "wrong version (you won't be able to keep files/app/data).

Then I tried with a EN-us one and got the same result.

So, I'm beginning to think that I might have installed a pre SP1 version, surely in fact, does it mean that I have to install a pre SP1 one (either french or us) ?

I'm furious , faced to install again a fresh 7 (and all things needed/used in my actual configuration) or having to jump to an 11 I'm not found off.

PS : in both cases I used an ultimate W7 SP1 june 2021 updated iso.