With Windows 7 released and currently making its way to shelves in time for the holiday season, we’ve taken this opportunity to upgrade our copy of the official Windows System Recovery Discs for compatibility with Windows 7.
If you’re like most PC users, you probably got Windows 7 with a new PC or laptop. And if you’re like 99% of the population, you get your new machines from one of the major manufacturers. Dell, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo; who all have one thing in common: they don’t give you a real Windows 7 installation disc with your purchase. Instead, they bundle what they call a “recovery disc” (that’s if you’re lucky – otherwise you’ll have a recovery partition instead) with your machine and leave it at that.
It doesn’t matter that you just paid a thousand dollars for a machine that comes with a valid Windows 7 license – your computer manufacturer just don’t want to spend the money (or perhaps take on the responsibility) of giving you a Windows 7 installation DVD to accompany your expensive purchase.
The problem is, with Windows 7, the installation media serves more than one purpose. It’s not just a way to get Windows installed, it’s also the only way of recovering a borked installation. The Windows 7 DVD has a complete “recovery center” that provides you with the option of recovering your system via automated recovery (searches for problems and attempts to fix them automatically), rolling-back to a system restore point, recovering a full PC backup, or accessing a command-line recovery console for advanced recovery purposes.
Thankfully, Microsoft seems to have realized this problem, and have thankfully made a recovery disc for this purpose. It contains the contents of the Windows 7 DVD’s “recovery center,” as we’ve come to refer to it. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows 7, and just serves as a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, one could re-create this installation media with freely-downloadable media from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK kit, a multi-gigabyte download); but it’s damn-decent of Microsoft to make this available to Windows’ users who might not be capable of creating such a thing on their own. You can make your own copy from Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, but now you have an easier alternative.
NeoSmart Technologies is hosting a copy of the Windows 7 Recovery Disc for your convenience. It’s a 143 MiB download (165 MiB for the 64-bit version), and in the standard ISO format, ready to burned directly to a CD or DVD. Don’t wait until your PC crashes to download a copy! Download and burn your recovery disc today, so that when the time comes, you’ll be ready!
What it does: The Windows 7 Recovery Disc can be used to access a system recovery menu, giving you options of using System Restore, Complete PC Backup, automated system repair, and a command-line prompt for manual advanced recovery.
What it doesn’t do: You cannot use the Windows 7 Recovery Disc to re-install Windows – it only fixes (not replaces!) Windows.
Why you need it: If you bought your PC from a major retailer, you didn’t get this CD with your hefty purchase.
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Windows applications / ISO / OS Support Tools → Windows 7 Repair / Recovery Disk x32 Bit x64 Bit04 Nov 2009, 20:55 You have to login or register to post comments. |
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how about Windows 7 x64 Bit part two
or its only one link?
just wondering.
PART 2 ADDED
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thank
Hold on. What's the difference between this "recovery disk" and the one we can produce within the (start programs) maintenance - create a recovery disk?
SIR PLEASE GIVE MF LINK THANKS IN ADVANCE
if u are using windows 7 u can burn the cd yourself. click start search "create system repair disk" it contains windows system recovery tools that can help you recover from a serious error
is it just me or is part 2 the same as part 1?
Your uploads are always appreciated, TQ!
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Please and if you allow, change the links to mediafire or hotfile .......... Thanks.
Mediafire mirrors:
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Use alternative full direct 100Mbit download
which link should i download above here or the top one?
what ever u like james
Hold on. What's the difference between this "recovery disk" and the one we can produce within the (start programs) maintenance - create a recovery disk?
bump on this question.
the disk u tlking abt, creates ur pc/laptop recovery disk and when u recover from that disk it restore original state of ur pc/laptop (the buying date)
this repair cd is like an global disk, recover, repair major faults
like startup issues, windows not loading, icons, taskbars etc etc..
hope u get the difference
I have deleted and restored the win 7 partition 4 times and each time needed to use the win 7 restore disk to restore the boot manager. Its not computer specific at all. It makes a universal disk for all win 7 installations and repairs them.
The disk created by Win 7 is not a system restore disk unless you create a backup image to restore you system from and is not a restore disk like that given to you by the computer reseller to restore your system.
On a freshly installed vanilla Win-7, the restore disk will repair your OS and boot manager just like the boot disk here claims to do.y
Could use specific details.