I thought repair installs could only be done from the desktop in W7 ?
Disguised as upgrade install.
I do not see that option when booting from the CD/DVD.
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At 10:20 AM 2/13/2014, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with:
If you remember a few days ago, my music computer had gone down and
it looked like the MB was loading down the +5SB. New motherboard
arrived, for Core2 Duo, there wasn't much choice, the new one is an
Asrock with a G31 chipset. The previous was a P45. Since I have a
ton of audio apps installed on this system (Complete 9 Ultimate
alone takes 8 hours to install, then 4 hours of updates), I wanted
to try and save the install.
To be brief, letting the install CD try to repair the installation
went nowhere. Since it's a chipset difference, the install is find
just blue-screens on boot. Then I found a little trick on the web.
There apparent is a DOS command that will tell windows to install drivers.
You put all the new drivers on a CD, boot to the install DVD, after
it finds the install location and fails to find a problem, you open
up a command windows and do this (note that the drive letters, E & F
are for where my Windows installation and DVD drive were located on
my system, YMMV): dism /image:E:\ /add-driver /Driver:F:\ /recurse
After this, Windows booted from HD and proceeded to install
drivers. It took a couple of reboots and so far everything is back
to 'normal'. I need to check and see if every device is active. I
had to reactivate windows (It gave me only 3 days!), but the new
automated phone system was quick and easy. Obviously it refused to
activate automatically online, it threw out a security error.
I really did not have a big thing against a full reinstall. It
would take a couple of days to finish, but it really cool to do
something like this to 'fool' windows.
Steve
Date: Thursday, February 13th, 2014
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**Tallyho**
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