| Spankey said: 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 |
Thanks but I tried that lol, it came up with an error and it couldn't find the file I created.
The thing is with my PC is that it originally had Vista, and MS sent me the W7 install disks.
I figure I could spend time using those disks, but what should be the simplest option is to just use system restore, I mean for this very reason system restore should be used. But I can't figure out how to use it without starting up windows. I get an error when I try to launch system restore from that menu but it tells me I need to restart my computer and pick the OS I need to restore. Which I guess means I actually need to log into Windows in order to do a system restore, so what the hell?
Also I ran different tests for about 2 hours and nothing showed to be wrong, I guess they aren't thorough enough to tell you that your PC won't boot into windows >_<.
Edit: I might need to use one of the Windows disks to repair my computer but I have:
Vista reinstallation disk
pre-Windows 7 Upgrade disk. It holds W7 Drivers and Applications. Also Dell Upgrade Assistant
Windows 7 Upgrade Option - completes the upgrade.
So I don't have a Windows 7 reinstallation disk, what now?
