seems windows 7 only allows a repair installation from inside the OS.
seems a bit stupid imo but i'll keep checking as soon as i can find my damned Win7 disk...
might have to do a full re-install into a new directory? hopefully not
wait, hold the phone...
from the horses mouth...
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7
hope you have that install disk handy

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