quick question... using windows repair, will it remove user data? reply ASAP if poss.
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Using Windows Repair function, from the original CD, simply restores the operating system files and does not alter any installed programs or your data files.
However, it does revert your operating system to the version that is on the disk, so you'll need to download any additional service packs or Windows updates and upgrades that you've installed since doing the original installation.
Also, you'll need your product key too, as this is required part-way through the install, as it is in a new Windows installation.
If you have a Service Pack 2 disk, you'll need to download about 70 updates to bring your Windows up to date, but this will only take around 30 minutes with broadband and a modern PC.
However, it does revert your operating system to the version that is on the disk, so you'll need to download any additional service packs or Windows updates and upgrades that you've installed since doing the original installation.
Also, you'll need your product key too, as this is required part-way through the install, as it is in a new Windows installation.
If you have a Service Pack 2 disk, you'll need to download about 70 updates to bring your Windows up to date, but this will only take around 30 minutes with broadband and a modern PC.
That's not true.
Don't use the repair thing (press R at some point), it doesn't do anything. You need to go through the install process again and reinstall over your current install. All user info and data is kept, as are updates.
Don't use the repair thing (press R at some point), it doesn't do anything. You need to go through the install process again and reinstall over your current install. All user info and data is kept, as are updates.
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joeyjojo, I think you're getting confused between the first 'press r' option, which is the Recovery Console, and the second 'press r' option, which is the true Windows Repair feature. This second option is the one that we are both referring to.
Going through the 'install process again', as you suggest, will either
a) create a second Windows installation on the same partition, with a duplicate Windows folder and set of O/S system files, providing that the exisitng file system is left intact, or
b) completely format the hard disk and delete all of mattbill's files and programs if the option to format the system partition is selected.
Mattbill should select the second option to 'press R' and go through with a Repair installation of Windows, as I originally stated.
Going through the 'install process again', as you suggest, will either
a) create a second Windows installation on the same partition, with a duplicate Windows folder and set of O/S system files, providing that the exisitng file system is left intact, or
b) completely format the hard disk and delete all of mattbill's files and programs if the option to format the system partition is selected.
Mattbill should select the second option to 'press R' and go through with a Repair installation of Windows, as I originally stated.
