Recovery Discs for Vista and Windows 7

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I have found a website that is hosting downloads of recovery discs for Vista and W7. If you have the installation disc for you OS, you don’t need these. If however, you are one of the many people who bought a new PC with the OS pre-installed and did not get an OS disc, these discs may prove invaluable in repairing your system without having to revert to the state the machine was in when it left the factory. They are NOT installation discs, they just give you the Recovery Console in a bootable format from which you may be able to repair your system.

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

The files they offer are torrents that have to be used in a bit torrent client such as uTorrent. I know, the dreaded P2P, but these are perfectly safe and a legal and legitimate use of the technology. If you really don’t want to use P2P, I will be trying to upload the actual disc ISO files to my online storage site. I will keep this topic updated if I’m successful in the uploading.

UPDATE: I have uploaded the ISO for 32 bit Vista. I tried it out on the Vista machine here and it boots up into the normal installation screen with the options to install or repair. You can NOT install with the disc so you have to click on repair. It seems to work from there but I didn’t run it completely since my Vista installation is fine. There are no guarantees that these discs will work but I think it’s worth a shot to try them before doing a full factory state recovery and losing everything on the HDD.

The link for the 32 bit Vista ISO:
http://www.adrive.com/public/09a07828c4a98ff6552455ec242eb6136a98730169be36b8650f85c231527a19.html

32 bit Win7:
http://www.adrive.com/public/cde835489d1c5c74d48218038edefb8fdb89adab3ebcad2440a8f8a32a100b78.html

64 bit Win7:
http://www.adrive.com/public/91b24aca6df0c4740f595cff81a5a8a5357bbe90d99a8bbe6c4ffbccd8b81067.html

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Boot discs for most versions can be found at:
http://mysharedfiles.no-ip.org/BootDisksForMostVersions

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these recovery/repair discs can be generated from Windows ;D >>> no need to download anything ::slight_smile:

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Darn I just found that as well - you definitely need it if you have no windows media and wish to do a startup repair

Thanks for the hosting Dch48 mind if I usse the link with kricxjo in the malware section ?

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@ essexboy: would be fine if you read my post (again?). You’re in Seven so you can generate this repair disc YOU DON’T NEED TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING >>> the option is meant in the first place for people who do not have the regular Win DVD but just a recovery partition or recovery DVDs to re-install, and nothing to just attempt a repair (ie access a console, restore points etc…)

so please do yourself a favor, explore Windows ::slight_smile: it’s all there already. This thread is ridiculous.

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This thread is ridiculous.
Please check the link I posted before making that statement. :) http://mysharedfiles.no-ip.org/BootDisksForMostVersions
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Bob, excuse me if I don’t as I prefer to stick to the topic of this thread

Recovery Discs for Vista and Windows 7

edit: again, the option is native in Vista (since SP1) and Seven :smiley:

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You are right I don’t need it, I have the disc - but there are people out there with a recovery partition only and no discs. So this is the only way to get it, unless you want to re-install to factory settings and lose all your data due to a non bootable machine. At the moment kricxjo cannot boot his sytem and has no discs only a recovery partition. For some reason OTLPE is not working on his system so I can not replace userinit and wininit that way. And this is the solution to my current dillema

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Ah I did not see that you had it as well Bob - do you mind if I use your link for when I come across this problem elsewhere ?

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noooooooooooooooooooooo!!! >>>> read my post above

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edit: again, the option is native in Vista (since SP1) and Seven
But only if the user is savvy enough to make it before he has the problem. How many new users make recovery discs ?
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That’s what the server is there for. :slight_smile:

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exactly

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Okay somebody beat me to it but the ones at the bottom are the same ones I found–they come from NeoSmart.com.

Yes Essexboy, you can use the links. That’s why I took the time to upload and post them. Adrive is slow at uploading . It takes a half hour to upload each one. Maybe my efforts were for naught? I hope not.

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It’s kind of hard to explore Windows on a system that won’t even boot.

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Okay somebody beat me to it
I guess so since I've had them available since 05-06-2008 :)
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Not the Win7 ones

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Your right. That was added 02-14-2010

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…no, it’s hard to have the DVD available when you had no idea that it even existed, which would have allowed you to burn one in the first place, before shit happened ;D

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It’s even harder to create a recovery disc from Vista or 7 when the manufacturer of the computer has removed that option and only left their own recovery system in place which involves creating discs that perform a destructive recovery and return the machine to it’s factory state. The option you showed in a previous post does not exist on some Emachines or Acer computers. It’s not there on the Vista system we have here. From reading up on it, it is also removed on some Dell and HP systems. You don’t get an OS DVD with many computers sold by the major manufacturers. I also saw on one site that in order to create the repair disc in Vista, you have to have the OS installation disc. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070929/vista-sp1-recovery-disc/ .That doesn’t make much sense since you don’t need the repair disc if you already have an OS disc.

If I would not have downloaded the ISO from the site I mentioned in my original post and burned it to a CD, I would have nothing to possibly avert having to do a destructive recovery on the Vista machine here. There is no option to create the repair disc on the machine. I know I can’t be the only person in that boat so the thread is not “ridiculous” at all.