how many times have you seen the black screen of death on your pc and it says that windows cannot find this file? if you have not seen it and you use a pc, give it some time, you will. the microsoft recommendation will have you in a tailspin by the time you read the end of the repair article. i did not even want to attempt it after reading the article for fear that i would lose an entire day.
there is an easier way. place your windows operating system disk in your cd drive and boot to it. instead of going into the repair console, boot into the install portion of windows. once there select the option to install windows. i know, it sounds scary, but trust me. it will then search for previous versions of windows. once it finds windows, you will be able to select the option for repair. this will reinstall windows and maintain all your files and settings.
August 17, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I’ve been using this method for quite a while ever since I read Fred Langa”s article about it. I think they call it non-destructive reinstall. Keep up the good work dude.