On 28/09/2011 23:10, John Rumm wrote:

... You can
usually fix this by booting from the windows CD and doing an inplace
repair install.

For XP, yes - done it loads of times. But I don't think that's
available for Vista (or Win7); you have to do a clean OS install and
then reinstall all applications.
User Data is preserved in "windows.old".


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