Repair Install

Hi Brink, firstly thanks for all the great advice you offer on this forum, i have found it invaluable. I attempted an in place upgrade in windows 7 ultimate x64, my system has been unstable for a while. i have to wait about 10-20 minutes for the network to be found and until then pretty much everything hangs. including the fact i hav to restart explorer.exe to see the desktop.

so i put win 7 on flash drive and set about doing the upgrade, only warning i get is re itunes and ide controller. so i went ahead all seemed to be fine but then unattended, it rebooted and it lists as 1. windows setup 2 windows 7
i can still get into the original win 7 but when i try to continue with the setup it comes up with an error cannot find winload.exe.

i have manually copied this file to the sources folder but it is still not seeing it. i need to either know how to copy it to the windows setup or preferably, if i can delete the setup files and attempt the upgrade from scratch again, currently it tells me i have to restart and finish the current upgrade and won't let me attempt a new one. Please help! much appreciated thanks,

thought about removing it from the boot list but worried the files are still there so it will still error. i have tried to repair the install itself to no avail.

Ally :)

lol i cannot admit defeat! trying again 90% files gathered fingers crossed ;P

nope it fell over 18% in expanding windows files. and now it won't let me attempt another install because it is saying the system needs to be restarted to finish making changes, which it has been. Is there a way to remove all traces of a failed upgrade attempt so i can try another one?

For anyone curious, if you are going to do a repair install via virtual DVD drive (such as Daemon tools) or even upgrade from Se7en Basic to Ultimate, it will work fine (tested on x64 and x86). The only drawback is that you will have to place your wanted files from Windows.old in an area outside of the user folders and delete every Windows.old registry file. For some reason, the User folders located in C:\Users\UserName\ are shortcuts of the Windows.old User path. Attempting to create new folders just replicates the error. After every windows.old registry file is deleted, it is safe to place the files in their respective folders.

What can I do if W7 doesn't fully start?
How repair install from a command line?