Hello Bobby and others, A Repair install, basically fixes the OS. Like what happened to me last night. Yup! It happens to all of us.
I was attempting to move my User Profile over to another HD. I edited the Registry and it messed up the Windows 7 install. Fortunately, I made a Backup VHD of the Boot HD. What I did is load WinPE from a USB disk. I mounted the VHD so a Hex Editor can see it as a physical disk. Ran WinHex and cloned the contents of the VHD disk to the Boot HD. I booted the computer up and received an error. I got the Repair DVD I made when I installed Windows 7 and used the repair function. Rebooted and it took longer than normal, but it booted and all is good now. I was dreading needing to reinstall the OS and programs over again. Thanks to the great Computer God "P'Toey" it's all good :) Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 Repair install > > What does that command do? > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane > Sherrington > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 Repair install > > At 04:26 PM 08/02/2012, Thane Sherrington wrote: > >At 04:05 PM 08/02/2012, Thane Sherrington wrote: > >>At 03:41 PM 08/02/2012, Thane Sherrington wrote: > >>>I have a Win7 machine that needs a repair install. When I try to > run > >>>it, it tells me there isn't enough space on drive J: (which is that > >>>silly system partition 7 creates). I've never seen it complain > about > >>>this partition, but I'm thinking perhaps it should be hidden (the > >>>drive doesn't appear in My Computer). Any suggestions? > >> > >>Well, hiding the partition doesn't work. > > > >I just tried the following suggestion from one of MS's forums: > >setup /tempdrive:c: > > > >But no change. The computer is now complaining that the J: (system > >partition) is almost full. I don't see this issue on any other Win7 > >machines, so something must be glitched on this one. Darned if I can > >find out what so far, though. > > Ok, finally I went into Diskpart, selected the partition and ran: > > SET ID=27 OVERRIDE > > And that fixed it. > > T > > > >
