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Windows 7 repair
12-09-2010 10:10 PM
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Is this just one of those things that can happen at random or could it be a sign of a hard drive starting to pack up or a symptom of something else ?
Just curious !
Re: Windows 7 repair
13-09-2010 8:54 PM
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Windows 7 has far more advanced automatic recovery system than the previous versions of windows (Windows XP/Vista).
Note that if using System Restore has failed to fix a problem and Windows 7 doesn't launch an automatic recovery, you can perform a repair installation from within Windows. Due to its complexity, it is no longer possible to perform a repair installation by booting from the Windows 7 (or Windows Vista) installation DVD as it was in Windows XP.
Here is how to perform a repair installation from within Windows 7:
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Use-Restore-Recover-Repair-Windows-7-Win7.htm#repairinstall
Re: Windows 7 repair
14-09-2010 9:01 AM
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Re: Windows 7 repair
14-09-2010 7:05 PM
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I have a recovery disk and a backup of everything on a external hard disk and DVDs.
I Tend to just muck about on my computer, keeping anything important on an external hard drive and set my own system restore points.
If the hard drive did pack up I could reinstall windows 7 from scratch but just out of interest could I recover my system to a new hard drive using the recovery disk previously made along with the backup saved to DVD ?
Re: Windows 7 repair
15-09-2010 9:07 AM
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It's a belt and braces system really - the recovery partition on the HDD if there is a problem with the OS and the recovery discs if there is a problem with the HDD.
Re: Windows 7 repair
15-09-2010 3:57 PM
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I Guess my incorrect description of ' recovery disk' may have mislead you into thinking a recovery disk had been provided with my computer.
Re: Windows 7 repair
15-09-2010 4:43 PM
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There must be some system that identifies your PC as being the one that W7 was originally installed on, otherwise you could be installing W7 all over the place!
Re: Windows 7 repair
20-09-2010 3:01 PM
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You won't be able to use a Recovery Disc provided by a PC manufacturer to install Windows on a new hard drive, because you have to format it first and the Recovery Disc won't be able to do that because it can only return the system to the state it was in when the computer left the factory, but it would require a formatted hard drive to do that. With a very large hard drive, you can partition it into several partitions that can all be formatted to use the NTFS file system.
Re: Windows 7 repair
20-09-2010 4:06 PM
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Formatting a new hard drive (which is likely to already be formatted for NTSC) or indeed formatting an active system drive would not be all that difficult as there are a number of programs (some free) that allow you to burn an ISO image to CD that can be used for that purpose providing your computer is set to boot from there first.
So assuming you formatted the drive first could you then proceed to use the system recovery disk to get everything up and running from the full backup on your hard drive ?
Must admit this is all hypothetical as I would take the easy option and reinstall via the original windows 7 disk but ask the question as a matter of curiosity ?
Re: Windows 7 repair
20-09-2010 5:01 PM
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Quote from: julesandsand I didn't know that you could make a system recovery disc in W7.
You can't, it's more as Gleneagles said.
You create a REPAIR disk (about 164MB for W7x64) and (additionally) system backup disks (a set of DVD's normally). The combination can be used to reinstate your system after serious damage.
This includes (by implication) after replacing a faulty hard disk.
That may result in activation issues but these are normally resolved by a phone call to MS.
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