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tamarisk:
Can anyone tell me if the Windows Repair (All in One) program is suitable for repairing an Vista installation that will not boot in either normal or safe mode? The inbuilt Windows Repair fails as does System Restore.

Many thanks

Boggin:
As far as I know, WR only runs from within Windows and isn't available as a bootable version.

You haven't said the make and model of the computer but here are a couple of guides to troubleshooting.

http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN85632/en

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00899280

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01443371

tamarisk:
I deliberately hadn't given details so that I wouldn't breach the rules of the assistance I've requested from Bleeping Computer, which is where I found out about Tweaking.com and the WR program. However, since you've mentioned it, the laptop is an Acer Aspire 5920.

I've been directed by BC to the Acer eRecovery Management webpages but they seem to suggest that any repair will result in personal data loss, which I want to avoid if possible.
 
My understanding of WR is that it can only repair the installation in which it is running and it cannot be used to repair a non running instance of Windows that is installed on a different partition or hard disk. Just to make sure, can someone confirm this please?

Boggin:
That's known as cross posting which some forums frown upon.

I'm not familiar with Acer eRecovery Management but I suspect that entails either a reinstall or factory reset, but you would need to be able to boot up into Safe Mode to execute the inbuilt factory reset whereas you could boot up with OEM recovery disks which would do the same thing.

An alternative to that is to create a Paragon Rescue disk which has some tools that may be able to get you back in.

It has it's own burner so you just need a DVD and it will e-mail you a free product key - don't know why that's a requirement, but it is - or was.

Have a read through the User Manual to get the best out of it. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-free/download.html

tamarisk:
Hi Boggin,

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look.

Can you confirm that my understanding of WR, as per my previous post, is correct?

Thanks.
 

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