Re: [PCWorks] Repairing XP pro
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin-OrpheusComputing.com & ComputersCustomBuilt.com" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:32:45 -0600
Yeah I KNOW it's **supposed** to, but it didn't! That's
Windows for ya. I didn't trust it and with good cause, and I'm
glad I didn't.
AFAIK there's only one way to do the repair and that's picking
the "r" for the repair option after booting off the CD, and NOT
choosing the option to install on the existing partition, just
the "r" option. There's a few other steps in there but I don't
recall them.
Windows has a, uhhh......"mind" of it's own if you want to call
it a "mind". Temperamental is more like it, or possessed. I
miss the easy days of '98. But since M$ extorted or
blackmailed users into using new OS's, (or else use them with
no patches), we have to switch, and soon will have to from XP.
I'm saving every single patch/update I install so when they
trash XP support I'll at least have all updates to that point
and will just use it like that.
I think I'll start a Windows support group solely for
no-longer-supported OS's where users can swap updates, patches
and tweaks, then continue to use them as long as they want.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
http://Computer-Hardware-Sales-Consumer-Electronics-Sales.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
A repair install isn't supposed to delete any data, and I've
never lost
any, but this is windows, so any thing's possible. If the
sequence of
instructions isn't followed properly, a new copy of XP will be
installed, which would wipe out your data , of course.
I did my slipstream with all the updates intact. Everything was
working
fine, so I saw no reason not to. I assume you could go through
and
delete any updates you didn't want before slipstreaming, but
that sounds
iffy and complicated.
Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin-OrpheusComputing.com &
ComputersCustomBuilt.com wrote:
> I would think it would happen more than just "seldom". But
> at
> any rate, IE6 or IE7, contrary to what M$ and other sites
> claim
> you WILL lose data when doing a repair! I know I posted
> something on this but I can't find the post now. A while
> back
> I had to do a repair and LUCKILY I DID backup everything.
> It's
> a good thing I did because what essentially happens is a
> reformat but with your email intact! "My Documents" was
> wiped
> out, all drivers, all custom settings and tweaks for XP, and
> all custom settings for any programs, only a couple of
> programs
> still worked but still lost their settings, and OE was
> totally
> empty plus put back to default, and the email had to be
> imported back in. I think the only reason that happened and
> the emails were not lost is because the store was not in the
> default location! You also lose any M$ updates installed.
>
> I wasted more time trying to figure out which programs
> TOTALLY
> worked, and other BS that it would have been quicker just to
> do
> a real reformat. I believe you mentioned Hugh that you have
> slipstreamed CD with the updates on it, that's a big
> time-saver
> there. I made an XP Pro SP2 slipstreamed CD, but no updates
> because you never know when M$ is going to withdraw a buggy
> or
> screwed up update and replace it with another.
>
> Is the slipstreamed CD with the updates made the same way as
> one without the updates? If not, do you have the info on how
> to do that? (For those that don't know, a "slipstreamed" CD
> is
> good if you only have an XP or XP SP1 CD. You create a new
> CD
> with SP2 on it and it seamlessly integrates with the install
> just as before without SP2. That way you install the CD as
> usual but don't have to install SP2).
> -Clint
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