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Is Vista System repair destructive?
I have a HDD with Vista Home Premium on it and I placed it in new hardware. When I start it I get the "Safe mode" menu and a message saying to insert the Vista CD and run system repair. My question is this, does running the Vista Repair do anything destructive to the data, and/or application settings on the system when it runs? The HDD was working perfectly in the old hardware, but the client wanted new motherboard, RAM, etc. and does not want to go through the angst of having to reload everything.
Windows Repair is designed to replace Core Windows files.
What you will lose is any Windows Updates you have done on the machine, including Service Packs.
You will also lose any System Restore points (Previous Registry Changes) when doing a Repair.
Programs should remain installed, though some may not function properl;y until relevant windows updates have been installed, or some may not function as the program itself may have replaced a common file, which would require repair/reinstall the application again.
If you do not do a repair and instead reinstall windows, then most if not all data will be lost, depending if you format or not.
What you will lose is any Windows Updates you have done on the machine, including Service Packs.
You will also lose any System Restore points (Previous Registry Changes) when doing a Repair.
Programs should remain installed, though some may not function properl;y until relevant windows updates have been installed, or some may not function as the program itself may have replaced a common file, which would require repair/reinstall the application again.
If you do not do a repair and instead reinstall windows, then most if not all data will be lost, depending if you format or not.
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I have found out that the Vista version is an upgrade applied to Windows XP by the client.
I have tried the Repair and it said that it could not do it.
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I have tried the Repair and it said that it could not do it.
Options?
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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx
Do you dual-boot the machine?