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Last edited by Brink; 23 Jul 2013 at 14:37. Reason: added quote
Repair Install
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New #1331
Hi Brink, thank you for this useful tutorial that I hope will solve problems with my system. It looks like I didn't express my question clearly enough. What I was saying was that I don't have that much free space on my windows partition, right now I only have 14 GB of free space on C partition - naturally that's where my Windows is. So do I need 40GB of free space for repair install or only 8.87 GB? Thanks in advance.
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New #1332
Sorry Samir,
Add 8.87 GB (for working space) + how much space Windows 7 is actually using.
If say your Windows 7 is using 25GB out of the available 39GB, then you would add 8.87 + 25 to need to have a minimum of 33.87 GB of free space to be able to do a repair install.
The reason for why a repair install need so much free space is that it creates a copy of your current Windows installation into a C:Windows.old folder. You can delete this folder afterwards to regain the hard drive space, but it still needs it to be able to do the repair install.
Since you only have 14 GB of free space, you most likely do not have enough to be able to do a repair install.
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New #1333
Ok, thank you, this is what I needed to know. I'll have to find some way for emtpying up space for repairing windows.
Actually Windows uses 30 GB of 100 GB available on C partition, and the rest is mainly Program Files, Program Data and Users folders plus a few other folders less than 1 GB each, and around 10 GB is used by pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys and probably System Volume Information (I guess for system restore points), so it leaves only 14 GB of free space. Anyway, thank you again, saved me from unexpected problems.
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New #1334
You're welcome Samir. You might see if this may be able to help with freeing up space.
Hard Disk Space - Free Up and Recover
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New #1335
About to do repair install need help
I've downloaded a Windows 7 Home Premium iso file and put the iso on a dvd to make a bootable copy of windows but I was wondering, can I still use this dvd to to do a repair install with EVEN THOUGH my computer came with win7 already activated and installed into it? They never gave me the win7 boot disc but I have to activation key that's on back of comp for win7 and the product key.. thanks.
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New #1336
Hello Myrovanna,
Yes, as long as it's the same edition, 64-bit, and includes SP1 that you currently have installed. :)
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New #1337
Hello Samir and welcome to Seven Forums.
I could be totally wrong on this, but you might want to open Disk Management and take a look at the entire hard drive. Sometimes you might find that other partitions were previously created that serve no useful purpose any more. Or maybe there's unallocated (unused) free space. Unnecessary partitions and/or unallocated space could be added to the C: partition. A free tool called Partition Wizard could help to do that.
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Just another possibility to consider and my apologies for jumping in.Last edited by marsmimar; 24 Jul 2013 at 13:07. Reason: Correct typo
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New #1338
it keeps giving me this when it checks the compability =/
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