Repair Install Over-the-Top

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For Susan Bradley:  I want to do a repair install over the top on another person’s computer.  Is it required that the ISO file produced from the Media Creation Tool be created on the computer to be repaired, or can I copy a windows.iso file from my computer to the computer being repaired?

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For your Peace Of Mind, wait for Susans reply. I’ll watch for it as well to double check myself.

I’ve done 3 over-the-top repair installs and they worked perfectly.
What matter is to have a fresh up to date ISO file. I downloaded it to an external data SSD then copied it to the target computers and ran it from there. In the space of 3 days I used the same ISO file on two different machines. The 3rd machine was done later with an fresh up to date ISO file.

Note: Downloading the ISO took some time as the downloads appeared to by throttled by Microsoft.

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Many thanks. That solves it for me.

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Bob Blum wrote:

Is it required that the ISO file produced from the Media Creation Tool be created on the computer to be repaired, or can I copy a windows.iso file from my computer to the computer being repaired?

It is not required. When creating the ISO select for ‘any PC’.

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You can save some time by running the Media Creation tool from the PC that needs the repair install as that’ll download all the installation files onto that PC and you’ll be able to start the install without having to create an ISO

I.e. you won’t have to wait for it to download all the installation files, create an ISO using those files and create an installation USB, copy the ISO onto the target PC, and then mount the ISO so you can run setup.exe to do the install.

When the Media Creation tool displays the following screen…

…select Upgrade this PC now instead of Create installation media, and it’ll use the files it just downloaded to do a repair install that keeps all the existing software and settings.

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n0ads wrote:

…select Upgrade this PC now instead of Create installation media, and it’ll use the files it just downloaded to do a repair install that keeps all the existing software and settings.

. . .  and data, I presume?

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Many thanks. That solves it for me.

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I am glad for you Bob Blum

I tried the same here, all of these actions mentioned….
Though,
The Repair-Install_over-the-top fails. Almost at the end of the end of this repair-install there comes a BSD , the be hated Blue Screen of Death, ….
Restarts automaticly, and it seems nothing has been changed at all.
Just like when installing the last security fix from December2023 for W10pro fully patched ((seems like a sick joke right now)).
Removed all Bitlocker diskencryption, and again same results.
Is my Secured-Boot environment corrupt?
If so, why does this pc start and operates so very normal, so it seems. But just doesn’t accept these decemberpatch or the repair-over-the-top?

Thoughts and help are more than appreciated,
Thank you

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Fred,

Consider UNINSTALLING (not just turning off) any 3rd party security software. I also return any libraries (pictures, documents, etc.) to their default positions (if I’ve moved them). Ensure your C: drive has enough empty space (used to be 9 GB, but I’m not sure currently) for the upgrade. Never hurts to clean all the cruft off your drive first, with CCleaner & DiskClean, then defrag (if a spinning drive). Good Luck.

Bill Zigrang

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Fred

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Thanks Zig,
I ‘ve to take a long breath for this exersize, but it sounds solid. I never thought off repositioning these libraries to their original places. But it’s Windows, isn’t it    ‘-(
Fortunately this installation runs okay, apart from ‘repair-upgrade’ and the last ‘security-update’ that in reality is much more than a security patch.

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Fred wrote:

I never thought off repositioning these libraries to their original places.

You should have copied the data to new location leaving the original empty at the original location (that’s what I do).

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Fred

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Alex5723 wrote:

Fred wrote:

I never thought off repositioning these libraries to their original places.

You should have copied the data to new location leaving the original empty at the original location (that’s what I do).

Right! Never to old or shy to learn! 🌟

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Alex5723

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[Fred]

@alex + @zig
I have been off the streets quite a while, so was puzzling with ‘some’ coffee…..
Finally succeeded. The trick was (I presume) …
downloading from Micro$∅fts site the very latest W10 install (cd/usb). This one was only 6 weeks younger than my previous version AND Appeared to be different than the former one (this was new to me).
Booted from this new version and executed Chkdsk in various versions on the systempartition. It repaired the bitmap on a part that was hidden fot the first time (Weird but tru).
After this WithIn Windows10(pro) I ran the install .exe, so did a ‘RepairInstall’-OverTheTop, as some literary writers call it.
Finally this version Did finish the installation without faults.
Than needed a couple of Windows-Updates,that included the obligatory latest ServicingStack alltogether (? coupled-merchandising to force unwanted AI functionality, and telling these are SecurityFixes?)((so Redmond wants to push everyone to the edge of Linux ?)).

All seems right so far…
Till when? Will they leave the W10 user at peace after this?
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