Cannot perform repair install, slipstreamed SP3 Pro OEM - existing install not found
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 3:12 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Harry Bellemare
(2 messages posted)
This is odd. I can use the Recovery Console to run commands all I want, but when
I try to start a repair-install à la Fred Langa (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1664082/posts
for more info), screen 7 & 8 just don't show up. Neither does the license, in fact,
although I've already read it, so I don't care as much about that.
Instead of the existing installation, I get a list of partitions on which to install
XP. Selecting my current Windows partition brings up a screen where Setup asks me
if I want to change the name of the Windows folder for the new installation, since
\WINDOWS already exists, but I don't want to do that; and according to Setup, installing
in the same folder will get rid of users, application associations, etc., which I
definitely don't want.
I checked for a winnt.sif file, just in case that was what was interfering, but it
wasn't there. Could another file be passing arguments to the Setup program to prevent
both the repair-install option and the license from showing up? Alternatively, is
there a way to force these screens to appear (by specifying it in a file of some
sort)?
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