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Win2k/XP Repair Installation

  • 05-10-2002 2:06pm
    #1
    GUI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭


    Hey..
    i cant remember performing a win2k/xp repair installation.
    does it just do an "overlay" installation like in win9x?

    i remember trying one before and it prompting me for a Emergency Repair Disk which i dont have?

    Does a repair installation reset the registry or
    import it ontop of a clean install?


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  • #2
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    The last two times I've tried a repair its failed miserably to fix the computer... that was on NT4 and 2000 (of course I didn't have the required disk either).

    In the NT case it made the system completly unstable (what was a corrupted tcp/ip stack became the whole computer ****ed)... in 2000 it just failed to solve the original problem at all... both times required a wipe/reinstall (and yes I did make the required disk the next time).

    On the registry bit: I know it leaves additonal entries alone, I don't however if it reverts the standard keys to defaults.


  • #3
    GUI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭GUI


    ya gerry was telling me similar things..
    i was reading msft's explanation of what goes on during a repair installation and its not what im looking for..
    i found an alternative but expensive application
    from those geniuses at systems internal.

    i'll tell u how i get on with it..


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