Repair Install

Shawn, Thanks for the welcome and the response. After posting I re-read the tutorial and realized that was the case. Will try your suggestion tomorrow. Thanks, Joe

Brink I think I know why it's not working for my laptop.

When checking for window updates (it says checking for updates forever in a continous loop)

Any ideas why the "check for updates" continues checking and not finding any updates?

mangoh said:

Brink I think I know why it's not working for my laptop.

When checking for window updates (it says checking for updates forever in a continous loop)

Any ideas why the "check for updates" continues checking and not finding any updates?

Are you connected to the internet?

derekimo said:

mangoh said:

Brink I think I know why it's not working for my laptop.

When checking for window updates (it says checking for updates forever in a continous loop)

Any ideas why the "check for updates" continues checking and not finding any updates?

Are you connected to the internet?

Yep

I've noticed muweb.dll is missing

I have windows 7 64 bit professional

Brink said:

Mangoh,

Give it a try without checking for updates to see if it may able to still do the repair install.

Already have.

Same issue, it randomly restarts when reinstalling windows.

When restarting I get two options at the boot menu

1) Windows setup (new)
2) Windows 7 (default OS)

When I boot into the windows setup option I get "windows installation could not start"

When I boot into windows 7 (I get a message telling me installation failed)

Brink said:

Mangoh,

I hate to say it, but you might consider doing a clean install of Windows 7 instead.

One final thing and then I guess I'm going to have to give up

just ain't got an external hard drive big enough to backup everything (not got the money).

How about if I uninstall SP1 from my laptop and use my disk that doesn't include SP1 but is compatible as it is a 64 windows professional (same as my laptop if I uninstall SP1)?

If you think this stands a chance of working, any ideas for a work around as when uninstalling SP1 it gets to the end and does NOTHING