Many of the next few Repair screens will also be familiar. The "installing devices" screen, for example, is identical to the one you normally see during a full, from-scratch setup. But Repair is actually retaining much of the current setup's configuration and so will move through these steps faster than in a full setup.

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Screen Thirteen The Repair version of the setup process skips or shortens many steps because it already has the information it needs from the existing setup. For example, Repair's "installing devices" and the network setup steps are both much faster and require less user input than a new setup does.

The setup screens don't reflect the fact that a Repair proceeds much faster than a normal, full setup. In fact, the time estimates in the setup progress bar will be way off. You'll be done in far less time than the progress bar predicts.

Screen Fourteen Just as with "installing devices," the network setup proceeds rapidly because Setup can reuse many of the configuration details from the current installation. In fact, a Repair setup takes far less time than the installation progress bar indicates.

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When this portion of the Repair is done, you'll see a "completing installation" screen:

Screen Fifteen The "completing installation" screen means most of the heavy lifting is done, and you're just minutes away from finishing the repair operation. (click image for larger view)

Setup then reboots your PC again, and this reboot will also take longer than usual. This is normal.

Screen Sixteen With the bulk of the repair work done, your PC needs to reboot once more and will do so automatically. The reboot will take a bit longer than a standard boot, but this is normal. (click image for larger view)

After the reboot, you'll be brought to an abbreviated version of the "Welcome To Windows" setup pages.

Screen Seventeen The Repair process ends with still more screens borrowed from the full setup. (click image for larger view)