toy4x4 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 What turns off the option in XP Setup to repair an existing version of XP? This is right before you would pick the partition to install on.Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jito463 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 If you have a winnt.sif with OEMPreinstall=Yes, then you will not get an option to repair the install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 If you have a winnt.sif with OEMPreinstall=Yes, then you will not get an option to repair the install.Can I be sure about this?Because my early CDs which did not have OEMpreinstall enabled at all, also offer no repair option. I guess simply having a winnt.sif (i.e., using unattended install methods) gets the setup to conclude that you don't need repair functionality.You need to make a new CD with normal files - no unattended processes used - to be able to get to use "repair" option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jito463 Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 I hadn't tried with a winnt.sif set to OEMPreinstall=No - for what I was doing, the OEMPreinstall was the only reason I needed the winnt.sif - so you could be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotlips69 Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 If you have a winnt.sif with OEMPreinstall=Yes, then you will not get an option to repair the install.This post (quoted above) never got an answer a few weeks back...can anyone confirm either way please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofdad Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 Yes,same question here.By using an unattended installation of windows, using winnt.sif,Do we realy loose the option of repair for windows, when we put the XP CD in?If so, why?what if theunattended installation is not automatic but only gives the defaults to the user? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jito463 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 If you want to know, give it a try. All you need is an iso and a virtual machine (e.g. MS VirtualPC or VMWare Virtual Machine) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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