cannot create system repair disc error 80070057

v432 · Oct 21, 2009

Hi

I'm using Windows 7 ultimate RTM and cannot create a repair disc image anymore. i get the error code 0x80070057 incorrect parameter with a dvd inserted. I'm really not sure what's causing this...

Thanks in advance for any replies

SIW2 · Oct 21, 2009

Curious error - do you only get it when trying to create a recovery disc?

Is windows all up to date?

Dvd is a waste - it fits easily on a cd-r.

v432 · Oct 21, 2009

yeah. all the latest updates are on windows from the windows 7 page (of course not all the optional updates but those are irrelevant anyways). Well I can try a cd-rw next time around if i can get this to work somehow.

I'm wondering if repair installation might be a good idea to fix this if there aren't any other options

Brink · Oct 21, 2009

Hello v432, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It will not hurt anything to do a repair install to be safe though. Hopefully you will be able to create a system repair disc afterwards.

v432 · Oct 22, 2009

Thanks for all the replies.

I did a repair installation and it does create a repair disc but requires me to insert the installation disc first. Only after that can I insert a blank disc to create an image.

Is that unusual?

SIW2 · Oct 22, 2009

Strange - have a look on the root of the drive for a hidden folder called Recovery. It claims to be empty.

Copy and paste it to your downloads folder .It should containn boot.sdi and winre.wim.

Brink · Oct 22, 2009

v432,

That is unusual. If you look in Disk Management, do you have the 100MB System Reserved partition?

v432 · Oct 22, 2009

apparently I don't seem to have that. I only have a main partition (C

with 9mb unallocated and then it just shows the optical drive in the disk management.

SIW2 · Oct 22, 2009

Go to folder Options - show Hidden Files and protected o/s files - find the Recovery folder - follow steps in my previous post.

v432 · Oct 22, 2009

I did copy the recovery folder to the downloads folder and it does contain the files you mentioned but I'm still getting insert windows 7 installation disk before I can create a system repair disk.

Apparently there's two copies of winre.wim in the subdirectories of the recovery folder if that's relevant. One in the Temporary subfolder and one in a subfolder that's named with a lot of numbers and dashes that also contains boot.sdi

Thanks for the advice though

SIW2 · Oct 22, 2009

Temp subfolder?

Seems it is trying to make the rescue disc, but jamming somewhere along the line.

No idea what could be causing that.

Have a look on your dvd and copy recdisc.exe to replace the one you have installed - see if that helps.

v432 · Oct 22, 2009

I searched the dvd but I didn't find a redisc.exe file through search even though explorer is set up to find hidden and os folders.

is there any particular folder it should be in?

michaelmullen2 · Aug 21, 2014

SOLVED (for me at least)

After soooo many hours of searching relief finally arrived.

I am running Win 7 64 bit HP SP1.

I "MOVED" the "hidden" folder C:\recovery to a flash drive and rebooted. Everything worked after that. The Recovery folder was recreated. I can only assume the original was somehow corrupted.

Cheers!

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