Repair Install For Vista

Brink · Jul 12, 2008

Uhm, ok. Did you enter a product key number when running the installer?

andrews240 · Jul 12, 2008

I did not enter a product key. I followed your tutorial to the letter.

Brink · Jul 12, 2008

Andrew I must admit that I am stumped on why it does not work for you then. I still do not seem to have any problems with running it on my system. :confused:

Other that a clean install, you might try doing a System Restore using a restore point dated before the problem to see if it can fix it.

Sorry,
Shawn

andrews240 · Jul 12, 2008

Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately there was no restore points listed that would've been helpful. I think that's because it had probably been 8 month, at least, since I had rebooted. I've been trying to crack most of my problems one at a time and things are starting to look up. I may just do a clean install anyway, I guess it's just time. Thanks again.

marrypoppins · Jul 16, 2008

Hey!! your tutorial worked, but I do have one question on the disk clean up I didnt get anything called Files discarded by Windows upgrade. There is something called: System error memory dump files, is that what I am supposed to check? Anyways my chkdsk works now, so Im happy. Thanks for all your help, and all the work you put into these tutorials.

Brink · Jul 16, 2008

Hi MarryPoppins,

System error memory dump files is not from the upgrade. It is basically data stored when Vista last had a Stop Error (blue screen) used to try and determine what caused the Stop Error. It is safe to clean in Disk Cleanup since you fixed the problem by doing a repair install.

Shawn

marrypoppins · Jul 30, 2008

So I did this, and initially it worked as you can see from my previous comment. Now I'm getting the same sfc and chkdsk problems that I was getting before my Repair install. Does this mean I need to do a clean install? or is it more likely something Windows update automatically installed that I should just do a system restore and go before the updates were installed? Or do I need to do the Repair install again (because last time I did not get the files discarded by upgrade in the disk cleanup)?

Brink · Jul 30, 2008

MarryPoppins,

It can be from recently installed drivers, pograms, Windows Updates, etc... , or from file corruption.

I would recommend that you do a clean install again, and install the latest driver versions afterwards. It would most likely be a quicker and easier fix.

Sorry,
Shawn

marrypoppins · Jul 30, 2008

I have not done a clean install before, but I will do one soon. Just checking though you mean clean install versus a repair install, correct?

Brink · Jul 30, 2008

Yep, a clean install. :geek:

These tutorials can help depending on what version (Full or Upgrade) you have.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68767-clean-install-upgrade-vista.html

OR

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-vista.html

himcals · Jul 31, 2008

Hello Brink,
again the problem with chkdsk that do not perform on startup. I have purchased my laptop 2 months ago and the reseller did not give me any windows vista DVD or any drivers DVD. I created my own recovery DVD from the computer itself.
What can i do now to perform the chkdsk to the C drive.

Brink · Aug 1, 2008

Himcals,

Since you already tried all of this tutorial below and everything else, I would say it was time for a clean install again. Sometimes it is just corrupted beyond repair.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130824-chkdsk-will-not-run-startup-vista.html

Sorry,
Shawn

Jeffro · Aug 6, 2008

I can not boot up into Vista Home Premium 64bit due to a blue screen that comes up after my desktop shows up with all of its icons. "Registry error" is the title of the blue screen. Even if I use MSConfig and select "Diagnostic Startup" to boot up with "bare bones" drivers and services and minimal processes during startup, I get this blue screen. Vista boots up into safe mode just fine. I can not perform a "start up repair" with the Vista install DVD because it says "no problems detected with Vista start up". So that means if I am to do this repair/upgrade install, it will have to be done from Vista's Safe Mode. Will this still work as described from within Safe Mode?

Brink · Aug 6, 2008

Hi Jeffro, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Since it is a registry error, you might try a System Restore using a restore point dated before the problem to see if it can fix it. I would use Method Two in this tutorial to do so.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Elvenazn · Aug 8, 2008

Hi I'm new to the forums, but, my sole reason for being here is because of a near impossible problem I have experienced with my Vista Home Premium laptop by HP. I've tried many of the error check commands through command prompt to repair my computer but no luck.

Up until this past week, my vista has been experiencing "COM Surrogate" problems while browsing my videos. At first, I thought of it as nothing until the problem just pops up every so often. I hit "close program" and it doesn't bother me anymore if I close the folder with the said videos. I tried fixing it with some suggestions around the internet such as installing the latest divx and what not but no luck still.

THEN my computer periodically stops starting up. To be more exact, I turn it on.
Bios->blinking _ on top for a milisecond->windows start up screen (which is black and contains the green loading bars). At that point, stops right there. It will never boot past that point to the welcome/login screen and just keeps rolling the green bars while the processor has clearly stopped processing data.

Now, launch startup repair and tells me to use system restore. Sure, so I rollback to the earliest point and bam I can start it up. But, the problem keeps occuring so that everytime I initiate a full shutdown, I'd have to rollback. Now that trick has not worked for me. So now I spent about 3 days scouring forum after forum to find a way to recover my computer.

I've tried sfc /scannow command but that would not repair my OS and the CBS log keeps stating access denied. I have yet to find a fix for this.

chckdisk (forgot the actual function) does EDIT:not find any irregularities that I could discern, but I could be wrong.

My hard drive and ram seem to be working because I did run the memory tool and what not so the hardware seems to not be the problem.

I have also acquired a recovery disk neotechnologies created which seems to be a success for most users who get it to run. Currently, all I have to initiate repairs is this disk and a partition which wouldn't let me create the recovery disk in the first place (might be related to my problem) which I tried only a few days ago. Probably step 1 of my problems.

So my possible solutions are: a repair install, clean install (last resort), or take it to a computer shop (the last last resort).

Now I hope to rely upon the first two, and if there are any other solutions I would like to know. I have also not tried contacting HP yet.

My questions are if I "install" with the neotechnologies disk, would it require a format of my hard drive which I would rather avoid. As for the repair install, can I do it with the neotechnologies disk?

The OS is Vista Home Premium 32bit HP with recovery Partition. I believe it is SP1

Thank you for any help you can provide and if this is the wrong spot to post this, sorry in advance. I need to get my laptop running again before I go back up to college, but, preferably I would like to keep my files. Thx again!

Brink · Aug 8, 2008

Hello Elvenazn, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm afraid that I am not familiar with the Neotechnologies recovery disk. If it creates a clone of your hard drive, then you will lose what you currently have to be replaced with what you had at the time the clone was made. If is nothing but a recovery disk, then it may only be good for repairs or diagnostics and not for installing Vista. You will need to check with that program to see if it can.

Anything you get from HP or from your recovery partition to install Vista will only do a clean install.

From the problems that you have listed, it may be easier to do a clean install instead if you are able to backup anything you do not want to lose.

Wish I could help more,
Shawn

DeSade · Aug 22, 2008

This is a little old as the last post is 2 weeks ago.
Unfortunantly this tutorial while great information doesn't seem to fit my problem but I have a little tip to add in regards to the CBS.LOG and access denied.

If you copy this file (right click, copy) and paste (right click, paste) to a unprotected location such as Documents folder or even Desktop you can open it and read the information.

Brink · Aug 22, 2008

Hello DeSade,

Thank you for posting this. You could also use the method in the Tip box at the top of this tutorial.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html

Shawn

Mike Luciano · Aug 22, 2008

Hi there,

I followed your steps all the say to the end. It got to the screen where it asks if you want to install updates. I answered only to install important updates. Then, it goes to a second screen asking for the area of the world ....EST..., then it goes to a window with a start button. I click the start button, and it tries to restart then goes to the background when the login comes up, and nothing. It just sits there.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike

Brink · Aug 22, 2008

Hi Mike, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Your Vista installation may be beyond repair, and a clean install will be needed to fix it.

Sorry,

Shawn

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