Windows 7: Moving Windows from broken hard drive

willgladman · 18 Sep 2012

Cheers. Prior to that, though, do I just have to burn the Windows 7 ISO to disk or is it more complicated than that?

Britton30 · 18 Sep 2012

Right click the iso file/burn image to disk. If you have a blank DVD in your drive, follow the prompts from there.

willgladman · 18 Sep 2012

Do I need to keep any of the Windows files or just move the data I want to try and rescue? If I do have to buy a new hard drive will it be possible to save my Windows without buying another one as I didn't ever get an install disk with my laptop?

willgladman · 18 Sep 2012

Also (again, apologies for being such a pain, and thank you all so so much for your patience) the Windows ISO I downloded from

Quote: Originally Posted by Arc

Download it.

doesn't seem to be doing anything - my computer thinks about it for a while and then just tries (and fails) to boot from HDD again.

Britton30 · 18 Sep 2012

If you have burned the iso you now have an install disk.
Save your personal data, all Windows 7 files are in the installer.

willgladman · 18 Sep 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by Britton30

If you have burned the iso you now have an install disk.
Save your personal data, all Windows 7 files are in the installer.

Okay great. The only problem, however, is that the disk onto which I burned the installer won't boot. Any ideas?

Arc · 18 Sep 2012

Download IMGBURN.

Step:1

Moving Windows from broken hard drive-1.jpg

Step:2

Moving Windows from broken hard drive-2.jpg

Now it will boot.

Britton30 · 18 Sep 2012

You may have to enter BIOS and set it to have the optical drive to boot 1st.

willgladman · 18 Sep 2012

Still nothing I'm afraid. Think I'm gonna give up and take it somewhere.

Britton30 · 18 Sep 2012

Let us know the outcome.

Windows 7: Moving Windows from broken hard drive

Moving Windows from broken hard drive problems?