dcyphure Posted October 22, 2005 Posted October 22, 2005 few hours after a new install my pc froze up i ended up having to use the xp cd, i ran setup and after selecing C: drive to install on i had an option to press R to repair, worked perfectly...later had problems but this time i didnt have the repair option, so i chose leave file system inact...it worked the same as repair, all my configs and everything was as it was before.....later again a problem but this time when i chose leave file system intact it instead of overwriting system files it created a windows.0 folder and now i have 2 seperate windows boot options for C drive i've never seen this behavior before...what happened to my repair option, and why did it make a windows.0 folder instead of overwriting the old one as it used to??
suryad Posted October 22, 2005 Posted October 22, 2005 I am really not sure, but I guess with the repair option the devs at MS prob felt that by repair you can at least acces your files even though maybe the damage is irrepairable. After you backup your stuff then they think that users would probably go and reformat and reinstall everything from scratch but at least this way the user did not lose their data. Hope that makes sense.
dcyphure Posted October 22, 2005 Author Posted October 22, 2005 (edited) I am really not sure, but I guess with the repair option the devs at MS prob felt that by repair you can at least acces your files even though maybe the damage is irrepairable. After you backup your stuff then they think that users would probably go and reformat and reinstall everything from scratch but at least this way the user did not lose their data. Hope that makes sense.but the repair option is never there, i saw it one time...i just wondered what specifically calls for it to be there and what made it decide to make a new windows folder instead of overwriting the old one when thats what it usually does, that just seems very odd to me so there must be something on the drive that it reads to decide how its options to the user and how its going to install...but that again doesnt make much sense.i really liked the repair feature, left everything exactly as i had it before, i think it just rewrites some of the main system files and boot files. so would be nice to know what its doing in deciding wether or not to give me that option Edited October 22, 2005 by dcyphure
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