Windows partition No Go on Boot Cd Repair

[JaceAce32]

I tried doing the repair xp off the boot cd... you know: boot into setup, hit enter, hit f8 to agree to Eula, but no repair active windows partitions... I ran chkdsk on the drive and it did repair it after a crash which happaned during an update, but now i cant access windows and i cant do the repair.

How can i go about manually repairing windows without having to re-install everything else?

 

[Pirotech]

Hi!

And what means you can't access Windows?
What warning messages did you received?

 

[ColKurtz]

If I'm not mistaken, I think you just go through a normal install and Windows will come back and tell you it sees an existing installation and will ask you what you want to do. You should have the "Repair" option at that point.

 

[DanceMan]

Originally posted by: ColKurtz
If I'm not mistaken, I think you just go through a normal install and Windows will come back and tell you it sees an existing installation and will ask you what you want to do. You should have the "Repair" option at that point.

Yep. Just be sure that you do NOT run Recovery Console. Let it boot, agree to the EULA, then it should see the Windows XP partition. I think you select 'R' for repair at this point.

You will have to re-input the key, and re-install the service packs/and-or upgrades, but it should leave everything intact.

DanceMan

 

[casper114]

Did you say you did try the recovery console and the fixboot command?

 

[JaceAce32]

Hey guys, i like i said i dont before i really dont want to reinstall windows but repair it. The repair option never came up for this windows installation because it got corrupted during a crash while it was installing a microsoft update (go figure)
What i am thinking of doing is setting up another installation of windows but cancelling it one percent in and having the cd repair that windows partition. **KInda Edit** the repair option came up, now to copy the files onto the other windows installation folder...

seperate question: If i do need to reinstall windows, is there anyway to avoid having to reinstall all the applications, i know its close to impossible... but yea its only close and not impossible, so if any1 has any ideas on that, it would be great.

-Jonathan

 

[JaceAce32]

Also, what if i were to make a new installation of windows with the same username and so on and so forth, import the registry from the old windows as well as copy the program files, search for alot of extra files in the windows directory that the program installation put there, copy those and more without replacing and files in the new windows directory.

Maybe not even import but replace registry since hardware is the same and locations for all the files will still be the same.

 

[JaceAce32]

Btw To answer the second post, the error i am receiving is: on boot up after bios "load needed DLLs for kernel"

 

[Matthias99]

First, please use the "edit" button instead of posting three or four posts in a row.

seperate question: If i do need to reinstall windows, is there anyway to avoid having to reinstall all the applications, i know its close to impossible... but yea its only close and not impossible, so if any1 has any ideas on that, it would be great.

Not really, at least not in a general way (you may be able to do it for some applications, but others will not be happy).

Also, what if i were to make a new installation of windows with the same username and so on and so forth, import the registry from the old windows as well as copy the program files, search for alot of extra files in the windows directory that the program installation put there, copy those and more without replacing and files in the new windows directory.

Maybe not even import but replace registry since hardware is the same and locations for all the files will still be the same.

This is extremely unlikely to work. The registry will not match up properly to the new installation. Seriously, if you reach this point, it's almost always easier to just reinstall your programs and rebuild your settings.

You still haven't explained why you can't just run the repair option... is it not picking up the existing installation? Or is it failing partway through (which could indicate things like a bad hard drive)?

 

[JaceAce32]

hey, the repair option is not picking up the existing installation. I tried fixboot /rebuild, deleting the boot.ini and runnning fixboot /rebuild again but it still didnt come up on the repair list.

this problem happaned in this order...
Ntldr is missing, i copied ntldr
ntldr is compress, i found a way to uncompress it
hal.dll is either missing or corrupted, i expanded it and copied it over
now 'load needed dlls for kernel'


edit: i'm running a files and settings transfer to see what that copies, i included the program files folder to copy things from as well. I go to check out the size of the .dat files its making and suprisignly enough its 10 gigs...?? you and me know settings are not 10 gigs.. can any1 inform me on what things are being copied? also since i cant boot windows xp off the fckd up hd is there a files and settings wizard for dos?

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: JaceAce32
hey, the repair option is not picking up the existing installation. I tried fixboot /rebuild, deleting the boot.ini and runnning fixboot /rebuild again but it still didnt come up on the repair list.

this problem happaned in this order...
Ntldr is missing, i copied ntldr
ntldr is compress, i found a way to uncompress it
hal.dll is either missing or corrupted, i expanded it and copied it over
now 'load needed dlls for kernel'


edit: i'm running a files and settings transfer to see what that copies, i included the program files folder to copy things from as well. I go to check out the size of the .dat files its making and suprisignly enough its 10 gigs...?? you and me know settings are not 10 gigs.. can any1 inform me on what things are being copied? also since i cant boot windows xp off the fckd up hd is there a files and settings wizard for dos?

It looks like all the hoops and barrels you are jumping over now is a bigger mess than just getting your data off and then reinstalling everything. I cleaned out a system yesterday that was as hosed as yours. Copy off all user data, clean install of Windows, Then install all applications, then copy data back. Three hours... done.

This is your third day messing with this problem 27, 28, 29 July 2005 wasted.

pcgeek11