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I'm well backed up but I didn't realize I had the problem leading to all this until any backup that might be free of the problem had been cycled out.
What I find most wierd is that after 5 years and 141 pages of this topic no one seems to have encountered the repair installation problem I have. i.e. that after starting it and getting the files, the installer just returns to ask if I want to start it rather than going on to the next step. On the other hand, what got me here is that the Win installer fails trying to install .net. It seems that the installer must be working fine in order to start the repair installation. Heavy, sigh.
To me that's the most unbelievably stupid thing. That for Win 7 Microsoft requires you to have a well running installation in order to repair a broken installation. Unbelievable. That a repair can't be done from booting it is just plain perverse. I haven't actually verified that is the case because I'm afraid to try it to see because it could wipe everything out by accident. I'll take Blink's word that it doesn't work instead.