re: Using Startup Repair to repair a boot failure due to a missing file

matthewsoft — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:20:00 GMT

How about if the Windows Vista install DVD is not available? How can I install the standard WinRE to the HDD without having to do some advanced OEM tasks? In WinXP it was a simple run command that started up Windows Setup and added it to boot.ini. This is extremely frustrating because I need to access Startup Repair and I don't have the RAID controllers for this laptop. Windows Vista is advertised as having advanced repair options, but it requires them to be installed at OEM.

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Thank you,

@Matthew

re: Using Startup Repair to repair a boot failure due to a missing file

hklm — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:46:49 GMT

1) While I appreciate your efforts with Win RE and Startp Repair you made a drastic mistake in misnaming Startup Repair. It can be used to fix many broken components of Vista where there is not a Vista no-start issue but you have confused your end users in the thousands with the name.

2) As has been pointed out before, your OEM VP Scott Di Valerio has twisted the arms of the 300 OEM named partners like Sony, HP contracturally forbidding them to ship a Vista DVD and so, they don't have any access to the panopoly of Win RE tools.

To me this is unethical if not illegal, because you deny people viable ways to recover Vista including to use the DVD for a repair install, one of the tools for fixing Vista no boots and systemically damaged Vista that boots. A repair install or inplace upgrade works in Vista.