Branded OEMs for prebuilds will see the system recovery option for restoring factory defaults there most often. When something isn't fully copied to the drive that is most often the unseen problem. The old SP1 OEM disk used here would and then wouldn't see the repair current option when custom installing with that.
With the current disk the next if and when will probably see the repair option available. If seen then the first thought is to simply follow the steps in the article seen above to see working results and preserve the current installation. The best advice to give to anyone however is simply termed "frequent backups" to another partition, another drive, removable media, etc. to prevent loss of anything not replacable.
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