thanks, good to know.
fp
At 11:48 AM 2/13/2014, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with:
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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