Vista Premium OEM repair due upgrade

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Dirk Lehmann

Hello,

would it be possible to repair an existing installation of vista premium OEM
with not working media player and windows explorer due booting from DVD and
installing again via upgrade without loosing files and programs?

regards,

Dirk
 
Hello Carey,

please let me know if it is possible to repair the media player without
recovering to a earlier point of time or completey restore.

Thank you.

regards,

Dirk
 
Hi,

Unlike XP, there is no repair install option in Vista. If your media player
is damaged, you might try running sfc /scannow from an elevated command
prompt. There is no option to reinstall just that program. System Restore
may be able to get you running again if you haven't let the problem go on
too long.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Malke said:
That's for repair of startup files, not the same as the classic XP Repair
Install.
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Thanks, Malke

Silly me. Who in his right mind would not understand that clicking on
"Repair your computer" during installation really means 'Do a "startup
repair" of the currently installed Vista'? I guess I need a new secret
decoder ring :-)

Do you have a web link that explains what files or things this startup
repair fixes? Does it write a new MBR? I couldn't find any details in Help
& Support.

-Paul Randall
 
Silly me. Who in his right mind would not understand that clicking on
"Repair your computer" during installation really means 'Do a "startup
repair" of the currently installed Vista'? I guess I need a new secret
decoder ring :-)

Do you have a web link that explains what files or things this startup
repair fixes? Does it write a new MBR? I couldn't find any details in
Help & Support.

-Paul Randall
Click to expand...

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6131173.html

Dirk Lehmann
 
I guess I need a new secret decoder ring :-) Command Prompt is also
available, as well as access to System Restore points.
 
Dirk Lehmann said:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6131173.html
Click to expand...

Thanks, Dirk

I was hoping for something with more substance. This article seems more
like an op-ed piece provided by M$'s marketing department.

Example -- it says:

<quote>
When Windows Vista's initial loading sequence detects a startup failure, it
automatically fails over to the Startup Repair Tool.
....
For example, the Startup Repair Tool can automatically repair the following
problems:
Missing/corrupt/incompatible drivers
Missing/corrupt system files
Missing/corrupt boot configuration settings
Corrupt registry settings
Corrupt disk metadata (master boot record, partition table, or boot sector)
Problem update installation
</quote>

If it actually did this, then we wouldn't be seeing half the posts that we
actually see in microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup and
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general.

Does anyone have knowledge of cases where during startup, the startup repair
tool was automatically invoked, fixed something, and startup completed
successfully? In which case how did you find out that a problem was found
and fixed?

Does anyone have an example of something that we can break on our test
system and which will be fixed by this automatic invocation of the startup
repair tool? I'd like to see it in action.

-Paul Randall
 
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