What if your Windows 7 becomes corrupt and fails to boot? Most laptops and PCs today come with Windows pre-installed and the manufacturers sometimes don’t include Windows installation disc.
This is where Recovery Disk come into play. It is recommended that users create a recovery disk as soon as possible and keep it in a safe location. In case your Windows 7 fails to boot, the recovery disk can help fix the problem.
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.
It’s a 143 MB 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.
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