Repair option not available

Not at all, that is why the word "Perhaps" is there.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"PLL" wrote in message
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Oh and YOU can tell others how to behave?

Huh? Non sequitur.Has nothing to do with your high opinion of yourself.
Stick to the computer stuff and leave the human relations stuff
to......................well you know.

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in message
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Not at all, that is why the word "Perhaps" is there.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"PLL" wrote in message
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Oh and YOU can tell others how to behave?

Are you telling me that after all this complaining and bitching to microsoft
about having no repair option, that all I had to do was install a little
longer to get it? Why didn't microsoft tell me that? That's all I wanted to
know. What difference does it make what system I have, all I wanted to know
was where the repair option was on my cd.

Is PLL being a real Pill?

"PLL" wrote in message
...
Huh? Non sequitur.Has nothing to do with your high opinion of yourself.
Stick to the computer stuff and leave the human relations stuff
to......................well you know.

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in message
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Not at all, that is why the word "Perhaps" is there.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"PLL" wrote in message
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Oh and YOU can tell others how to behave?

"j-d" wrote in message
...


Are you telling me that after all this complaining and bitching to
microsoft
about having no repair option, that all I had to do was install a little
longer to get it? Why didn't microsoft tell me that? That's all I wanted
to
know. What difference does it make what system I have, all I wanted to
know
was where the repair option was on my cd.

How about this type www.google.com and do a search for How To Repair XP or
How To Run A Repair Install or something similar.


--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Consider it Water over the Dam. Now you know and you can write home about
it. Don't be too upset I can understand your frustration but honestly we
all live and learn.

--
George Hester
_______________________________
"j-d" wrote in message
...


Are you telling me that after all this complaining and bitching to
microsoft
about having no repair option, that all I had to do was install a little
longer to get it? Why didn't microsoft tell me that? That's all I wanted
to
know. What difference does it make what system I have, all I wanted to
know
was where the repair option was on my cd.

I'm installing a new motherboard and booted with my XP 1a service pack CD
and wanted to do a repair to replace the drivers but there is no repair
option. Setup only allows for a fresh install. In other words, Setup fails
to find either of my XP installations (c and d drive) and offer me teh
chance to repair

What's wrong?

In ,
Jupiter Jones [MVP] had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Not at all, that is why the word "Perhaps" is there.


"PLL" wrote in message
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Oh and YOU can tell others how to behave?

Well Jupiter, there comes a time when all you can do is sigh... "That old
mare she aint what she used to be, she aint what she used to be." I'm still
grateful usenet exists, I just long for the 'old days.'

Reminds me of the adage, "You can lead a horse to the water..."

Here's an odd way to think about the issue...

What if the OP had been in any one of a number of different countries but
been using a proxy server thus their time was "correct" for where they
possibly were on the planet and the IP address wasn't truly indicative of
their physical location on the planet? These days, with the leasing and
sub-leasing of IP blocks you never can truly depend on the whois information
being correct even and that still doesn't take into account the possibility
that they're using a proxy server of one type or another. With such
configurations (or leasing) one could appear to be on an entirely separate
part of the globe and the IP address's owner/leaser (is leaser a word???)
could be on the complete opposite side of the planet.

Some interesting food for thought if nothing else.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes

"Galen" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jupiter Jones [MVP] had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Not at all, that is why the word "Perhaps" is there.


"PLL" wrote in message
...
Oh and YOU can tell others how to behave?

Well Jupiter, there comes a time when all you can do is sigh... "That old
mare she aint what she used to be, she aint what she used to be." I'm
still grateful usenet exists, I just long for the 'old days.'

Reminds me of the adage, "You can lead a horse to the water..."

Here's an odd way to think about the issue...

What if the OP had been in any one of a number of different countries but
been using a proxy server thus their time was "correct" for where they
possibly were on the planet and the IP address wasn't truly indicative of
their physical location on the planet? These days, with the leasing and
sub-leasing of IP blocks you never can truly depend on the whois
information being correct even and that still doesn't take into account
the possibility that they're using a proxy server of one type or another.
With such configurations (or leasing) one could appear to be on an
entirely separate part of the globe and the IP address's owner/leaser (is
leaser a word???) could be on the complete opposite side of the planet.

Some interesting food for thought if nothing else.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes

Te OP hasn't come back yet as to what kind of XP CD hr/she has!!V

"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message
...
! Anong wrote:
I'm installing a new motherboard and booted with my XP 1a service
pack CD and wanted to do a repair to replace the drivers but there is
no repair option. Setup only allows for a fresh install. In other
words, Setup fails to find either of my XP installations (c and d
drive) and offer me teh chance to repair

What's wrong?

Fix your damned clock! Post dating is incredibly rude and many people,
myself included, will not respond to post daters except to tell them to
fix their clock, calendar and/or time zone. You are in Singapore
(GMT+0800), yet your time zone is set to US Mountain Time (GMT-0700). And
before you say anything, the reader's server automatically adjusts the
time for their own time zone and it certainly isn't 10:03 tomorrow morning
here in the UK!

Fix it and you might receive a more helpful response from me. Otherwise,
you'll just end up killfiled.

You OK Sarah?

Will

In ,
Will Denny had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Te OP hasn't come back yet as to what kind of XP CD hr/she has!!V

(The old mare is Usenet by the way, figured I should make that clear. I
recalled a conversation in a private email list that you were partaking in
and after reading this thought I'd clarify that it's usenet that's old and
nothing like it used to be.) And no, they haven't... I just wanted to remind
people that IP addresses can (and do) lie easily enough. Just because we can
trace IP addresses to a location doesn't mean that the OP was actually
anywhere near that part of the globe with any certainty. The last time I
looked at mine the State was wrong, right region but wrong state. When I was
using a different compression utility my IP address had me all the way in
Australia. (The worst part was Google was convinced I was there so every
time I went to give someone a link it came out .com.au which was a bit
frustrating and one of the reasons I switched to one hosted in the States.)
Even still with the increased awareness of security issues more and more
people are beginning to use anonymous proxy servers (or so they hope they're
anonymous) and that skews things even more further. Coupled with the
depletion of IP addresses, leasing, and sub-leasing it is no longer a true
measure to find where people are posting from. It can be off by entire
continents.

The thread portion in which I was responding to was the part of Jupiter
pointing out that while Miss Tick had been strong in her approach and even
then that there was no call for the next person in line to be aggressive and
that, to be honest, is what isn't like it used to be. I happen to agree with
Jupiter on this one. Those of us who've taken the time to watch the postings
from Miss Tick probably also agree with Jupiter. Yes, she was strong willed
in her posting but not outlandishly so and to react towards that
aggressively - as the person behind her did - is just plain silliness.
Anyone who's ever posted in here should long since be aware that failing to
not take the caps lock off, setting your time ahead, or posting gibberish is
going to get Miss Tick to yell at you. We've come to accept it or, in some
cases, appreciate it because some of the things said are often things we
simply wanted to say but didn't quite have the gall. And for someone to come
and respond to that in that manner is abhorrent. Not to mention it serves no
purpose.

Once usenet was pretty tame really, a nice quite place where you could bring
the family for a picnic. Well, okay, not all that idyllic but these days
it's hard to go a day without witnessing at least a couple of flame wars
that veer so far from the original intent of the thread that it's almost
maddening at times. Anyhow, after my recollection of a past thread in which
we all reached some sort of acceptance or greater understanding I figured
I'd do better to explain myself and my verbiage lest anyone think there was
anything remotely personal involved in my post. (I wouldn't want that of
course... *nods* g) To speak frankly if it was assumed that my post was in
reference to Miss Tick it was not but rather both in defense of Jupiter's
ideas and the old mare wasn't her but Usenet herself and the changes that
have taken place. I saw where my post could have been read a number of ways
and just in case people didn't know better I figured I better make sure I
clarified it.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes

Sarah's OK, you've just got to know how to read her postings.

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups


"Galen" wrote in message
...
In ,
Will Denny had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Te OP hasn't come back yet as to what kind of XP CD hr/she has!!V

(The old mare is Usenet by the way, figured I should make that clear. I
recalled a conversation in a private email list that you were partaking in
and after reading this thought I'd clarify that it's usenet that's old and
nothing like it used to be.) And no, they haven't... I just wanted to
remind people that IP addresses can (and do) lie easily enough. Just
because we can trace IP addresses to a location doesn't mean that the OP
was actually anywhere near that part of the globe with any certainty. The
last time I looked at mine the State was wrong, right region but wrong
state. When I was using a different compression utility my IP address had
me all the way in Australia. (The worst part was Google was convinced I
was there so every time I went to give someone a link it came out .com.au
which was a bit frustrating and one of the reasons I switched to one
hosted in the States.) Even still with the increased awareness of security
issues more and more people are beginning to use anonymous proxy servers
(or so they hope they're anonymous) and that skews things even more
further. Coupled with the depletion of IP addresses, leasing, and
sub-leasing it is no longer a true measure to find where people are
posting from. It can be off by entire continents.

The thread portion in which I was responding to was the part of Jupiter
pointing out that while Miss Tick had been strong in her approach and even
then that there was no call for the next person in line to be aggressive
and that, to be honest, is what isn't like it used to be. I happen to
agree with Jupiter on this one. Those of us who've taken the time to watch
the postings from Miss Tick probably also agree with Jupiter. Yes, she was
strong willed in her posting but not outlandishly so and to react towards
that aggressively - as the person behind her did - is just plain
silliness. Anyone who's ever posted in here should long since be aware
that failing to not take the caps lock off, setting your time ahead, or
posting gibberish is going to get Miss Tick to yell at you. We've come to
accept it or, in some cases, appreciate it because some of the things said
are often things we simply wanted to say but didn't quite have the gall.
And for someone to come and respond to that in that manner is abhorrent.
Not to mention it serves no purpose.

Once usenet was pretty tame really, a nice quite place where you could
bring the family for a picnic. Well, okay, not all that idyllic but these
days it's hard to go a day without witnessing at least a couple of flame
wars that veer so far from the original intent of the thread that it's
almost maddening at times. Anyhow, after my recollection of a past thread
in which we all reached some sort of acceptance or greater understanding I
figured I'd do better to explain myself and my verbiage lest anyone think
there was anything remotely personal involved in my post. (I wouldn't want
that of course... *nods* g) To speak frankly if it was assumed that my
post was in reference to Miss Tick it was not but rather both in defense
of Jupiter's ideas and the old mare wasn't her but Usenet herself and the
changes that have taken place. I saw where my post could have been read a
number of ways and just in case people didn't know better I figured I
better make sure I clarified it.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes

In ,
Will Denny had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Sarah's OK, you've just got to know how to read her postings.

Absolutely - and take the barbs with a grain of salt. *chuckles* Sometimes
she says the stuff I just wish I could say myself or I wish I'd thought of
it first. Anyone who reads Diskworld has to be okay. My point was it wasn't
a personal attack on her and I had thought that it MIGHT be a case where
people could/would view it as such and I didn't want that. I long for the
old usenet days at times but I'm grateful the beast lives on. I'd be pretty
bored without it.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes

Galen wrote:
In ,
Will Denny had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Te OP hasn't come back yet as to what kind of XP CD hr/she has!!V

(The old mare is Usenet by the way, figured I should make that clear.
I recalled a conversation in a private email list that you were
partaking in and after reading this thought I'd clarify that it's
usenet that's old and nothing like it used to be.) And no, they
haven't... I just wanted to remind people that IP addresses can (and
do) lie easily enough. Just because we can trace IP addresses to a
location doesn't mean that the OP was actually anywhere near that
part of the globe with any certainty. The last time I looked at mine
the State was wrong, right region but wrong state. When I was using a
different compression utility my IP address had me all the way in
Australia. (The worst part was Google was convinced I was there so
every time I went to give someone a link it came out .com.au which
was a bit frustrating and one of the reasons I switched to one hosted
in the States.) Even still with the increased awareness of security
issues more and more people are beginning to use anonymous proxy
servers (or so they hope they're anonymous) and that skews things
even more further. Coupled with the depletion of IP addresses,
leasing, and sub-leasing it is no longer a true measure to find where
people are posting from. It can be off by entire continents.
The thread portion in which I was responding to was the part of
Jupiter pointing out that while Miss Tick had been strong in her
approach and even then that there was no call for the next person in
line to be aggressive and that, to be honest, is what isn't like it
used to be. I happen to agree with Jupiter on this one. Those of us
who've taken the time to watch the postings from Miss Tick probably
also agree with Jupiter. Yes, she was strong willed in her posting
but not outlandishly so and to react towards that aggressively - as
the person behind her did - is just plain silliness. Anyone who's
ever posted in here should long since be aware that failing to not
take the caps lock off, setting your time ahead, or posting gibberish
is going to get Miss Tick to yell at you. We've come to accept it or,
in some cases, appreciate it because some of the things said are
often things we simply wanted to say but didn't quite have the gall.
And for someone to come and respond to that in that manner is
abhorrent. Not to mention it serves no purpose.
Once usenet was pretty tame really, a nice quite place where you
could bring the family for a picnic. Well, okay, not all that idyllic
but these days it's hard to go a day without witnessing at least a
couple of flame wars that veer so far from the original intent of the
thread that it's almost maddening at times. Anyhow, after my
recollection of a past thread in which we all reached some sort of
acceptance or greater understanding I figured I'd do better to
explain myself and my verbiage lest anyone think there was anything
remotely personal involved in my post. (I wouldn't want that of
course... *nods* g) To speak frankly if it was assumed that my post
was in reference to Miss Tick it was not but rather both in defense
of Jupiter's ideas and the old mare wasn't her but Usenet herself and
the changes that have taken place. I saw where my post could have
been read a number of ways and just in case people didn't know better
I figured I better make sure I clarified it.
Galen

Thanks, Galen - I think! ;o)

Galen wrote:
In ,
Will Denny had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Sarah's OK, you've just got to know how to read her postings.

Absolutely - and take the barbs with a grain of salt. *chuckles*
Sometimes she says the stuff I just wish I could say myself or I wish
I'd thought of it first. Anyone who reads Diskworld has to be okay.
My point was it wasn't a personal attack on her and I had thought
that it MIGHT be a case where people could/would view it as such and
I didn't want that. I long for the old usenet days at times but I'm
grateful the beast lives on. I'd be pretty bored without it.

Galen

Galen,

Mr T.D.J. Pratchett would be mortified - it's DisCworld, please! I know who
PLL is by the way, I have at least two dozen (if not more) of its aliases
already killfiled.

My bark is worse than my bite, really... ;o) eg