Repairs to Vista

I am running Vista Home Premium (64bit) (OEM) and have a few problems which
would be solved by re-installing the OS. But having read some of these
answers it would seem that I cannot do a repair with the OEM DVD, how then
can I get the required software to carry out this operation?
Does anyone have any Ideas?
Help would be appreciated.

"nalanirak" <nalanirak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3721DF07-B47D-4B3D-99D1-279692880BA9@microsoft.com...
> I am running Vista Home Premium (64bit) (OEM) and have a few problems
which
> would be solved by re-installing the OS. But having read some of these
> answers it would seem that I cannot do a repair with the OEM DVD, how then
> can I get the required software to carry out this operation?
> Does anyone have any Ideas?
> Help would be appreciated.

how about a system restore?

Thank you for your input, but I have tried system restore and it has not
solved the problem , that is why I would like to do a OS repair.

"philo" wrote:

>
> "nalanirak" <nalanirak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3721DF07-B47D-4B3D-99D1-279692880BA9@microsoft.com...
> > I am running Vista Home Premium (64bit) (OEM) and have a few problems
> which
> > would be solved by re-installing the OS. But having read some of these
> > answers it would seem that I cannot do a repair with the OEM DVD, how then
> > can I get the required software to carry out this operation?
> > Does anyone have any Ideas?
> > Help would be appreciated.
>
> how about a system restore?
>
>
>

"nalanirak" <nalanirak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1056435C-19BF-4892-8323-105D4E91D10B@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for your input, but I have tried system restore and it has not
> solved the problem , that is why I would like to do a OS repair.
>
> "philo" wrote:
>
> >
> > "nalanirak" <nalanirak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:3721DF07-B47D-4B3D-99D1-279692880BA9@microsoft.com...
> > > I am running Vista Home Premium (64bit) (OEM) and have a few problems
> > which
> > > would be solved by re-installing the OS. But having read some of these
> > > answers it would seem that I cannot do a repair with the OEM DVD, how
then
> > > can I get the required software to carry out this operation?
> > > Does anyone have any Ideas?
> > > Help would be appreciated.
> >
> > how about a system restore?
> >
> >
> >


Vista does not have a repair install option like XP had...
you might be able to perform and "upgrade" and install Vista back over
itself...

but I've never tried that.

I'd definately back up your data if you have not done so already...

If your present OS is hosed to the point that it will not even boot-up...
pull the drive and slave it to another system so that you can do your backup

nalanirak;539115 Wrote:
> Thank you for your input, but I have tried system restore and it has not
> solved the problem , that is why I would like to do a OS repair.
>

Hi Nalanirak,

If you have a Express OEM version DVD, then you can do a Repair
install. This tutorial will show you how.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88...all-vista.html

Shawn


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When booting up pressing F8 will give you a list of repair tool (not alot
know that). These can be useful for fixing many boo boos.


"philo" wrote:

>
> "nalanirak" <nalanirak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1056435C-19BF-4892-8323-105D4E91D10B@microsoft.com...
> > Thank you for your input, but I have tried system restore and it has not
> > solved the problem , that is why I would like to do a OS repair.
> >
> > "philo" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "nalanirak" <nalanirak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3721DF07-B47D-4B3D-99D1-279692880BA9@microsoft.com...
> > > > I am running Vista Home Premium (64bit) (OEM) and have a few problems
> > > which
> > > > would be solved by re-installing the OS. But having read some of these
> > > > answers it would seem that I cannot do a repair with the OEM DVD, how
> then
> > > > can I get the required software to carry out this operation?
> > > > Does anyone have any Ideas?
> > > > Help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > how about a system restore?
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
> Vista does not have a repair install option like XP had...
> you might be able to perform and "upgrade" and install Vista back over
> itself...
>
> but I've never tried that.
>
> I'd definately back up your data if you have not done so already...
>
> If your present OS is hosed to the point that it will not even boot-up...
> pull the drive and slave it to another system so that you can do your backup
>
>
>