When you boot to the install disk, the first window you see asks you
Language/Time & Currency format/Keyboard. After you click next, the
next window has a big 'Install Now' in the center, however, in the lower
left corner there are two options: What to know before installing
Windows & Repair Your Computer. Click on repair your computer and
another window pops up where you can search for Windows installations on
the disks. Once you select that, it will try to repair. After a while,
it will come back and say either failed or no problem found. After you
X out of that window, you now can get to the System Recovery Options and
you can open up a command prompt. Since Win7 puts a Sys Exclusive
partition, that usually shows up as C:, and the rest of the disk, with
the Windows folder will be on another drive letter. For me, it put it at E:
I found all this stuff here:
http://www.dowdandassociates.com/blog/content/howto-repair-windows-7-install-after-replacing-motherboard/
On 2/13/2014 1:29 PM, FORC5 wrote:
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.
fp
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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