Hep Needed - Windows 7 rescue disk

[DiscoDes]

A friend of mine has FUBAR's his laptop so he's give it to me to have a look at. He does not have any disks with the computer and when it starts up it POSTS ok but then tries to go into recovery mode but fails. I have been able to ascertain the registry is knackered, I've downloaded Hiren's CD and and I can load it and the mini XP operating system but I don't know what program to use to try and fix the registry. I'd like to make a recovery CD but I was wondering if I made a recovery CD on my Windows 8 machine, could I use this on his Windows 7 machine?

[izan]

Des,
From another site
" A system repair disc is not the same as a OEM factory recovery/restore disc.
A system repair disc is not an installation disc. You cannot do a repair install or install Windows 7 with a system repair disc.
A system repair disc can only be used to repair Windows 7 through the system recovery options.
32-bit System Repair Disc can only be created on a 32-bit Windows 7.
64-bit System Repair Disc can only be created on a 64-bit Windows 7.
32-bit System Repair Disc can only be used to repair a 32-bit Windows 7.
64-bit System Repair Disc can only be used to repair a 64-bit Windows 7."

Depending on the age of the hardware and the condition of the data, it may be a more efficient use of your time to reformat and reinstall from zero.


Good luck

BTW, do you have access to a working win7 box?

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[stu1873]

I would reformat and reinstall Win7 onto the laptop Des. Would save a bit of faffing about.

If you get stuck with a copy of Win7 drop me a PM and i may be able to help you.

[DiscoDes]

Jul 27, 2013 19:52:45 GMT izan said:

Des,
From another site
" A system repair disc is not the same as a OEM factory recovery/restore disc.
A system repair disc is not an installation disc. You cannot do a repair install or install Windows 7 with a system repair disc.
A system repair disc can only be used to repair Windows 7 through the system recovery options.
32-bit System Repair Disc can only be created on a 32-bit Windows 7.
64-bit System Repair Disc can only be created on a 64-bit Windows 7.
32-bit System Repair Disc can only be used to repair a 32-bit Windows 7.
64-bit System Repair Disc can only be used to repair a 64-bit Windows 7."

Depending on the age of the hardware and the condition of the data, it may be a more efficient use of your time to reformat and reinstall from zero.


Good luck

BTW, do you have access to a working win7 box?

I

izan

I think I need a Windows 7 repair disk in that case.

It's a pretty new Laptop and my mate does not want to lose all the Data on there, so I'd try a repair first.

I don't have a Win 7 box.

[DiscoDes]

Jul 27, 2013 20:33:17 GMT stu1873 said:

I would reformat and reinstall Win7 onto the laptop Des. Would save a bit of faffing about.

If you get stuck with a copy of Win7 drop me a PM and i may be able to help you.

stu1873

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on it

[izan]

Jul 28, 2013 9:29:24 GMT DiscoDes said:

Jul 27, 2013 19:52:45 GMT izan said:

Des,
From another site
" A system repair disc is not the same as a OEM factory recovery/restore disc.
A system repair disc is not an installation disc. You cannot do a repair install or install Windows 7 with a system repair disc.
A system repair disc can only be used to repair Windows 7 through the system recovery options.
32-bit System Repair Disc can only be created on a 32-bit Windows 7.
64-bit System Repair Disc can only be created on a 64-bit Windows 7.
32-bit System Repair Disc can only be used to repair a 32-bit Windows 7.
64-bit System Repair Disc can only be used to repair a 64-bit Windows 7."

Depending on the age of the hardware and the condition of the data, it may be a more efficient use of your time to reformat and reinstall from zero.


Good luck

BTW, do you have access to a working win7 box?

I

izan

I think I need a Windows 7 repair disk in that case.

It's a pretty new Laptop and my mate does not want to lose all the Data on there, so I'd try a repair first.

I don't have a Win 7 box.

Des,
If he doesn't have a back up of the data, then the first priority is to get his data secure.
I would remove the HD, copy the data to a back-up location , reinstall the HD and then try the recovery procedure.
But I need to ask, what happened? WHY did a pretty new computer shit the bed? Update?, physical drop? user error?


Is the computer 32 or 64 bit?


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[meeee]

What make is the laptop? Many manufactures create a recovery partition on them which allows you to reinstall windows from it rather than requiring a cd?

[raid2506]

I have to agree with izan, whip out the HD and copy the data.

Then you can do whatever you like to the HD without fear of data loss.

[izan]

Des, the rescue ISO is only 150mb. Find on TPB, pull the torrent and burn.
Just need to know if it is 32 or 64 bit win 7.


good luck
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[DiscoDes]

izan raid2506 meeee

Thanks for your suggestions Guys, I downloaded a system Rescue Disk and tried that but and I can access the recovery console but I get "you must enable system protection on this drive" and I tried accessing rstrui.exe from the CMD prompt without success (many years since I did anything in DOS).

I checked with the Guy who's Laptop it is and there's nothing on there that he really needs to keep so I am going to try re-installing Windows @storm is helping me out on this as I have a product key but no disk at the moment.

I'll let you know how I get on.

[izan]

Best of..
PM if you need anything.

Still kinda wonder what happened to the machine to get it to this point.

Have fun

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[DiscoDes]

Jul 30, 2013 13:46:09 GMT izan said:

Best of..
PM if you need anything.

Still kinda wonder what happened to the machine to get it to this point.

Have fun

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izan

I don't know, apparently his Wife was using it at the time and that's where the damage was done. She does not know what she did!

[raid2506]

Jul 30, 2013 14:01:37 GMT DiscoDes said:

Jul 30, 2013 13:46:09 GMT izan said:

Best of..
PM if you need anything.

Still kinda wonder what happened to the machine to get it to this point.

Have fun

I

izan

I don't know, apparently his Wife was using it at the time and that's where the damage was done. She does not know what she did!

That sounds about right, bloomin wimmin!

[Deleted]

she probably tried plugging an iron into the usb port

[digital7]

If it happens again sometimes a Linux live CD can run in RAM and allow you to back up data without changing the hard disk - Ubuntu is often a good choice www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop