Create repair disc on Windows 7

• Create a repair disc
• Access the tool allowing the creation of the repair disc
• Burn repair disc
• Use the system recovery disc
• Use the Windows installation disc
• On video
• Other links
• To see also

Create a repair disc

Windows 7 includes a tool that allows you to create a repair disc, just as the Windows Vista installation DVD allowed. An improvement therefore, since you can therefore have this one without having a boxed version, delivered with its installation DVD.

Necessary material :

• A CD to burn the system repair tool

Access the tool allowing the creation of the repair disc

Done :
Start> Control Panel> Backup and Restore> Create System Repair Disc

Burn repair disc

Insert your CD into the drive.

Select your burner if you have more than one and click on Create disc.

There it's finished !

Use the system recovery disc

• Insert the System Repair Disc into your computer's drive.
• Restart your computer using the computer's power button.
• If prompted, press any key to start the computer from the system repair disc.
• If your computer is not configured to boot from a CD, DVD or USB key ..., consult the documentation supplied with the computer. You may need to change your computer's BIOS / UEFI settings.
• To boot from the recovery disk, you will need:
  • Either go to the boot menu (select boot device), by pressing the key indicated on the screen when you start your computer. Example on a Toshiba computer

• • Either configure the bios by going to the boot menu. Example of Bios in picture:

Note: Remember to confirm the startup changes:

• Select your system and press enter to go to the next step.

Note: Pressing the Tab key during this step will launch the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool.

• Wait for the loading time then select your language settingsAnd click Following.

• At this stage two choices are offered,
  • The first allows you to launch tools to repair your system as shown in the next step

• • The second choice is to directly use a disk image created with Windows (but by checking the first option you will also have the choice of using a disk image!)
• Then click Following.
• If you checked the first option during the previous choice you will arrive at this menu:
  • Startup Repair
  • Restore the system
  • System Image Recovery
  • Windows memory diagnostics
  • Command prompt

• If you selected to recover the system image in the previous step (or even from the menu of the previous image), you will come to this screen:

If the system image is on an external media not connected you will have the following message:

Use the Windows installation disc

• If you cannot create a repair disc and you have the Windows 7 installation CD, you can start with the repair option by booting from the original Windows CD.
• So we can start with the repair options without having created a repair disc (especially since in some cases the creation of repair CDs does not work, it is quite recurrent on the forum.).

On video

(Thanks to hephaistos59300)

Other links

• Create a system image on Windows
• Create and use a repair disc with Windows

To see also

Netbook - Create a Windows 7 repair usb key