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XP Repair-Cannot Find Windows Installation

6892 Views 5 Replies 2 Participants Last post by Emtronics, Jan 2, 2007

Knocka

Discussion Starter · Jan 1, 2007

When I follow the instructions to do a repair of XP SP2 (with a slipstreamed CD), after I press F8 to accept the EULA, I do NOT get the screen asking if I want to repair an existing windows installation. Instead, it asks me where I want to install XP Pro, and gives me a list of options (matching my various hard drives and partitions).

Any idea how I can get the install CD to find my existing Windows installation so I get the repair option.

Thanks.

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Emtronics

· #2 · Jan 1, 2007

It might be the slipstreamed CD, that is why you don't get the option you are looking for. Try a regular XP Pro CD.

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Emtronics

· #4 · Jan 1, 2007

Yes and that is a pain but if you can borrow a XP Pro CD that came with SP-2, you can use that instead. I happen to have an original XP Home CD without any service packs. I used an XP Home SP-2 CD to load XP on my new system and then used the original key when it asked for it. The slipstream CD is nice and I made one myself using the great instructions from Fred Langa and his Langa List newsletter. It works if you have to install Windows brand new from scratch and includes all the updates at the time you made it. It will not work to repair an installation.

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Emtronics

· #6 · Jan 2, 2007

Good advice on the IE7. Do it last. Well I am some readers learned something here. Thanks for the update. I never thought about RAID.

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