rothomson

hi, thanks for all your help. but just to let you know i managed to get it fixed =] i inserted the disk while in windows and selected the updates option and let it update then, i went through the menu's chose my version and it let me choose the option of 'upgrade' so i chose that and after and hour or two. it had as good as reinstalled windows but left my programs, saving me the longproces of formating and reinstalling everything. Thanks

i use it as my main OS. i heard it performs better than vista, so i thought i would upgrade. a repair, does that involve. reebooting from the cd etc. ill try that to see if it helps. i had a go with servermanagercmd.exe but anything i try to do, i get in red: ERROR: configuration was started by..... which required a restart so and so must log in to finish that configuration before other users may perform configurations. anything you can suggest before i try to repair? thanks for your help =]

hi, thanks for the reply. as far as i can see, nothing atall happens when i run oobe.exe. whats it suppost to do? as for servermanagercmd.exe. how do i use it? i havent disabled any serveice. only enabled services. but thats after it started crashing. thanks

hi, im wondering if anybody can help me, this is the first time ive tryed server 2008 x64. i had vista ultimate x64 before. anyway, my problem is, i added a feature with, i think it was the desktop experience pack and .net 3.0 framework from the server manager that opens on startup, well. it asked me to restart to complete the installation. now everytime it starts it trys to complete the installation and 'microsoft management console has stopped responding' comes up everytime i start, its really annoying and i cant open it back up again when the machine is running, when i try to open server manager, it opens computer manager insted and i really need the functionality to add more features! please can someone help me. thanks