Repair Install

Brink - I am hoping you can help me out here. My laptop is in an unbootable state - it is BSODing and my system restore restore points have disappeared. My backups of those restore points are too old to be of much use.

I can't tell from your instructions (which are excellent btw) whether or not the "Upgrade Repair" can be run if your machine isn't bootable. In other words, let's assume that I get a fresh copy Windows 7 installed on a another disk or partition on the machine with the problem OS. Can I direct the upgrade repair to repair the OS that's broken? I went through the process but there's no point where it asks you which OS you want to upgrade - I think it simply assumes that it's the one you're running.

Any help MOST appreciated - I am really trying to avoid a total system wipe here.

FYI, I have a raw copy backup of the entire drive prior to anything we do so dont be afraid to try something daring.

Thank you!!!

Hi All,
Firstly thanks for such a fantastic forum, this has been a very useful tool for my reference and advice.
I hope to have a simple question - the initial instructions for this 'Repair topic' stated that I could use any 'newer' version of windows to complete a windows repair.

My scenario is this: I have a Windows 7 Home Prem laptop, is it possible to use a Windows 7 Enterprise disc to preform the repair.
The reason I ask is that I get a few requests from friends wanting help and didn't want to keep multiple versions of install discs. As potentially Ultimate or Enterprise would cover the lot.

Thanks for any assistance.

I'm trying to do a repair install to fix some damaged system files. Unfortunately it fails while the installer is copying files stating that there isn't enough space left on the system volume for temporary files (error code 0x80070490). On C: there is 398GB out of 465GB free and there is space left on the other drives as well (the lowest free amount is 18GB).

Cleared out some stuff increasing the free space from 398GB to 420GB (and yes, this is the partition I have Windows installed on) but it made no difference, still the same message. Besides, I don't see how this would have helped since the installer only wanted around 830MB.

System protection is set to 2% (10.00 GB) so that shouldn't be any problem. Is it possible that the installer has some problem with me running Truecrypt and having 3 drives with encrypted partitions? I know some diagnostic programs at least don't work well with that, I have however tried the installer both with and without the volumes mounted.