No repair install in Windows 7
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Oh, Microsoft. Just when you had me won over with Windows 7 you had to go and do this. A much used feature in XP for an IT guy like me was the offline repair installation. It was great for fixing a corrupt OS or upgrading a system’s hardware. I recently got stuck in a bit of a quandary where my Windows 7 install wouldn’t boot and Startup Repair couldn’t fix it. Trying to start an install off the boot media just resulted in being told that an upgrade install could not be performed from boot and that I should restart and log into Windows. Well, that would have been fine, but my problem was that I couldn’t boot into Windows in the first place.
Microsoft: Please add this feature into Windows 7.
