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    Sager/Midern Vista Recovery DvD WTF!!!!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by invain, Mar 11, 2008.

  1. invain

    invain Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've had a Vista meltdown and need to access Vista recovery through the dvd. However, when I boot from the Vista recovery dvd that came with my sager np2090 I don't get the freaking repair option. Is there any way to access repair?
    I absolutely love it when companies change crap around for no reason and when problems arise like this I'm screwed.
     
    invain, Mar 11, 2008
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  2. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    Things are a little different with Vista as the repair option comes after the choose language screen---are you sure it is not there?
     
    gerryf19, Mar 11, 2008
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    jdparlin Notebook Enthusiast

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    I found out hard way that Vista OEM discs don't have the repair option.

    You have two options but the easiest is the CD image here:

    http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

    Also depending on how messed up it is, if you go looking for fixmbr or fixboot in the terminal they aren't there.

    The new commands are:

    bootrec /fixboot
    bootrec /fixmbr
     
    jdparlin, Mar 11, 2008
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  4. lndnny

    lndnny Notebook Geek

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    Just in case you didn't know how to access the command prompt with Sager's Vista recovery discs, here's how:

    When at the stage where it asks you which partition you want to install on, press shift + f10. That should get you the command prompt to use the commands the person above me posted.

    Dan
     
    lndnny, Mar 11, 2008
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  5. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    JDParline,

    Are you speaking from experience with a Sager OEM Disk, or perhaps a "recovery" disk from another retailer. I was under the impression that a plain vanilla OEM disk had the repair startup option.
     
    gerryf19, Mar 11, 2008
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  6. lndnny

    lndnny Notebook Geek

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    The Sager Vista OEM Discs don't have the option to repair the startup. After one or two questions, it takes you straight to the page where it asks which partition to install on.
     
    lndnny, Mar 11, 2008
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  7. Donald@Paladin44

    Donald@Paladin44 Retired

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    invain, please clean up your language unless you are totally incapable of expressing yourself without using profanity.

    Notice that others around you on this forum do not revert to the laziness of profanity.
     
    Donald@Paladin44, Mar 11, 2008
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  8. dexgo

    dexgo Freedom Fighter

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    ya, this isn't notebookforums!
     
    dexgo, Mar 12, 2008
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  9. yukonbob_34

    yukonbob_34 Notebook Enthusiast

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    OK I found this while trying to do the Vista Repair and had no
    option except to install Vista again on my Sager NP5790 and this was the only thread I found on Google that helped me. If you hit Shift + F10 to get to the CMD console then type /cd recovery then RecEnv.exe and you will see the Repair Options.
     
    yukonbob_34, Apr 11, 2008
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