Use W7 Ultimate disc to repair install of W7 Premium?

[stop!theradio]

I use Windows 7 Ultimate, and my friend has Windows 7 Home Premium. His logon "situation" got corrupted and I need to 'repair' the install. Would I be able to use my W7 Ultimate 32-bit disc to use the repair options to fix his Home Premium 32-bit install with? Thanks

 

[Joe Average]

It's all the same in the Repair respect, as long as you use a 32 bit disc for a 32 bit install, 64 bit for 64 bit, etc. The boot repair that gets done is the same for any edition of the OS but the version (32 or 64 bit) needs to match.

Another thing to do is to make a recovery disc for the OS once it's up and running, or you can make one yourself on your Windows 7 Ultimate installation: click Start and type system repair and wait a second, it'll appear on the Start menu - select it then get a blank CD or CD-RW (always handy to have at least a few CD-RW in your disc inventory for such purposes). It'll create a disc that is expressly designed to fix/repair a Windows installation with respect to boot issues and other problems including login/password issues.

You can find it under Start - Maintenance as well; I just find it easier to click Start and type a few letters and Windows 7's search will find most anything for you...

 

[stop!theradio]

Thanks for the info! Yeah I was hoping a simple repair install or restore point might fix my buddys issue, but it's not happening. The Ultimate disc worked as far as TRYING to repair goes, but it never actually fixes the issue. Both Windows versions are 32-bit so of course I understand that the disc isn't the issue or anything like this; it works fine, it's just that Windows refuses to be 'fixed. A little more on the problem itself:

Apparently my friend was surfing the web (nothing fishy, he wasn't downloading any programs, no porn, according to him ) and then Chrome just crashed. He says that Windows itself crashed right after that. What happens since then is he will try to log on, and it will say "logging on" and then suddenly say "logging off" right afterward and go straight to the logon screen. I've never had to deal with that problem so I'm kind of clueless. I took his machine home to look at it over tonight and sure enough it does exactly what he described - it logs his account off as soon as I try to log in. It doesn't go to his desktop or anything - it just tries to log on, and then immediately logs off. I created a recovery disc for his install a while back but, of course, he doesn't have it anymore. The Windows disc itself won't even work, so I imagine making a recovery disc right now, even from my computer, would be useless, right?

Of course I'll test hard drive/run memtest/try safe mode later, but I was wondering if you've heard anything about this issue? Is it well known or is there some kind of common fix I should know about to save myself a nights worth of trouble?

I appreciate your help!