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Windows 7: System Recovery Options
System Recovery Options How to Boot to the System Recovery Options in Windows 7
Published 23 Nov 2008
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Featured Tutorial | | | How to Boot to the System Recovery Options in Windows 7
 Information This will show you how to boot to the System Recovery Options screen to select the Startup Repair, System Restore, Complete PC Restore, Memory Diagnostic Tool, or Command Prompt option to use on Windows 7.  Note The System Recovery Options menu is on the Windows 7 installation disc. If your computer manufacturer (OEM) has preinstalled recovery options, the menu might also be installed on your hard disk as a recovery partition. If your computer does not include the System Recovery Options menu, your computer manufacturer (OEM) might have customized or replaced the tool. Check the information that came with your computer or go to the manufacturer's website.
 OPTION ONE 
Using an OEM Recovery Partition
NOTE: This is if your computer did not come with a Windows 7 installation DVD, and has pre-installed recovery options (recovery partition) instead.1. Start or Restart the computer.
2. Boot into the Advanced Boot Options screen. A) Select Repair your computer and press Enter.
3. Select your keyboard language preferences and click on Next. (See screeshot below).
4. Select your user name and type in the password, and then click on OK.
5. Go to step 6 in OPTION TWO below.
OPTION TWO
Using a Windows 7 Installation or System Repair Disc
1. Insert the Windows 7 installation disc, slipstream Windows 7 SP1 installation disc, or System Repair Disc into the CD/DVD drive and restart the computer.
WARNING: Check to make sure that you set the BIOS to have the CD or DVD drive listed first in the boot order.
2. If prompted, press any key to boot from the Windows 7 installation DVD. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: You will only have about 8 seconds to press this key.
3. Select your language preferences and click on Next. (See screeshot below).
4. Click on Repair your computer. (See screenshot below)
5. Select which operating system you want to restore and the click on Next. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: If Windows 7 is not listed here, or it is blank, then it is ok. Click on Next anyway. 
6. Select the system recovery option you want to do. (See screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn
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25 Nov 2008
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lol shawn
nice +1
" This is if your computer did not come with a Windows 7 installation DVD, and has pre-installed recovery options (recovery partition) instead." | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number Tx2500z Tablet Pc/Homemade Server
OS Windows 7 Ult x64(x2), HomePrem x32(x4), Server 08 (+VM), 08 R2 (VM) , SuSe 11.2 (VM), XP 32 (VM)
CPU Turion X2 ultra (oh well came with laptop)/P4 @3.2 (yes P4)
Motherboard IDK HP Motherboard / Intel DG965SS
Memory OCZ Dual Channel 4GB kit/ 1gb Dual Channel
Graphics Card HD 3200 graphics /GMA x3100 (yay for intergrated!!)
Sound Card Realtek HD Audio(mic working, well sort of)/Siig IC-70012
Monitor(s) Displays built-in Hp 12" laptop screen/ Acer 19"
Screen Resolution 1280x800 /1440x900
Mouse Logi MX Rev. /MS Wheel Optical 1.1A /Logitech Optical Mouse
Cooling All Air Cooled
Internet Speed College baby but its still routed through vpn to 1536k...
Other Info love my wacom pen and pressure sensitivity...
wished it worked in 7, SUSE for that matter though
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25 Nov 2008
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LOL, now they just have to release Windows 7 for a OEM recovery partition.  | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Self built custom
OS 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
CPU Intel i7-3930K 3.2 Ghz (O/C 4 Ghz)
Motherboard ASRock X79 Extreme11
Memory 32 GB (8GBx4) G.SKILL DDR3 Quad PC3-19200 2400MHz
Graphics Card Sapphire HD5870 Eyefinity 6 2GB
Sound Card SB Recon 3Di Integrated Chip
Monitor(s) Displays 3x 27" Asus VE278Q
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
PSU OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition
Cooling Corsair Hydro H100
Hard Drives 256GB OCZ Vector
160GB OCZ RevoDrive X2
2 x 1TB Samsung HDD HD154UI SATA
Internet Speed 50 Mb/s Download and 2 Mb/s Upload
Other Info Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
Lite-On iHBS212 12x BD Writer
Samsung CLX-3175FW Printer
Netgear WNDR3800 Router
Motorola SBG6580 Cable Modem
2x APC Back-UPS XS 1500
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08 Jun 2009
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Windows 7 recovery is definitely improved over previous versions, its saved me from reformatting at least twice now. Is there a way to add recovery options directly to the boot menu like you could in XP? | | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz
Motherboard BIOSTAR TForce965PT
Memory G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Graphics Card GeForce 9600 GSO (768MB)
Sound Card Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays Dell e773c
Screen Resolution 1024x768
Keyboard Logitech Media Elite
Mouse Kensington PilotMouse Optical
PSU OCZ GameXStream 600W
Case Cooler Master Centurion 532
Cooling Stock
Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda ST3320620AS 320GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Internet Speed 3Mbps x 864Kbps DSL
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08 Jun 2009
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Hello Demono,
I do not know, but it wouldn't be very helpful if your computer doesn't boot though. | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Self built custom
OS 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
CPU Intel i7-3930K 3.2 Ghz (O/C 4 Ghz)
Motherboard ASRock X79 Extreme11
Memory 32 GB (8GBx4) G.SKILL DDR3 Quad PC3-19200 2400MHz
Graphics Card Sapphire HD5870 Eyefinity 6 2GB
Sound Card SB Recon 3Di Integrated Chip
Monitor(s) Displays 3x 27" Asus VE278Q
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
PSU OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition
Cooling Corsair Hydro H100
Hard Drives 256GB OCZ Vector
160GB OCZ RevoDrive X2
2 x 1TB Samsung HDD HD154UI SATA
Internet Speed 50 Mb/s Download and 2 Mb/s Upload
Other Info Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
Lite-On iHBS212 12x BD Writer
Samsung CLX-3175FW Printer
Netgear WNDR3800 Router
Motorola SBG6580 Cable Modem
2x APC Back-UPS XS 1500
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08 Jun 2009
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Brink, Another option, which I use, is to put WinRE.Wim on a bootable PE memory stick. The procedure is highly similar to making a minimum PE USB stick. If it willl be of interest, I'll send a couple of .docx files giving a detailed, step-by-step. I've not read up on how to attach a file for upload to this forum and whether such is even permitted. Karl
Brink, Here goes an attempt at including two .docx attachments.
Brink,
Looks like that didn't work. Have saved as .doc files and will try to attach them.
Karl
Last edited by Brink; 08 Jun 2009 at 11:45 PM..
Reason: Merged multiple posts
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Toshiba Satellite S875D-S7239 laptop
OS MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
CPU AMD A10-4600M
Motherboard AMD Pumori (Socket FT1)
Memory 6.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-12-28)
Graphics Card AMD Radeon HD 7660G
Sound Card High Definition Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz)
Screen Resolution 1600x900@60Hz
Keyboard Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse HP Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse Model FHA-3410
Hard Drives SSD 119GB Corsair CSSD-V128GB2 ATA Device
Internet Speed What the local pub, local coffee shop offers.
Other Info Optical Drive:MATSHITA BD-CMB UJ160B ATA Device
Also have an Asus ha1002xp netbook with Win 7 Ultimate installed.
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08 Jun 2009
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Hello Karl,
Thank you. I'll take a look at it.  | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Self built custom
OS 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
CPU Intel i7-3930K 3.2 Ghz (O/C 4 Ghz)
Motherboard ASRock X79 Extreme11
Memory 32 GB (8GBx4) G.SKILL DDR3 Quad PC3-19200 2400MHz
Graphics Card Sapphire HD5870 Eyefinity 6 2GB
Sound Card SB Recon 3Di Integrated Chip
Monitor(s) Displays 3x 27" Asus VE278Q
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
PSU OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition
Cooling Corsair Hydro H100
Hard Drives 256GB OCZ Vector
160GB OCZ RevoDrive X2
2 x 1TB Samsung HDD HD154UI SATA
Internet Speed 50 Mb/s Download and 2 Mb/s Upload
Other Info Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
Lite-On iHBS212 12x BD Writer
Samsung CLX-3175FW Printer
Netgear WNDR3800 Router
Motorola SBG6580 Cable Modem
2x APC Back-UPS XS 1500
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01 Nov 2009
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Boot into Windows 7 to retrieve docs before reinstall
Okay, here's my issue, my install went south about 4 days after install, don't know why. Spent all day yesterday going through the various system recovery options described in this site and available via booting up using my windows 7 install disk. No luck. Fairly convinced the boot mgr became corrupt and no matter what I do none of the fixes work. So, I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I will have to reinstall. But before I do that I'd like to pull some data off the HD that I had not yet had a chance to back up before the computer crashed. What method would best allow me to simply boot into Windows 7 just to recover the information (documents, file folders, etc.)? Help! | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Motion Computing Tablet
OS Windows 7
CPU LE 1700
Memory 4 GB
Hard Drives SSD KingSpec 128 GB
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01 Nov 2009
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Hello Lindsay, and welcome to Seven Forums.
You should be able to do a repair install to fix Windows 7 without losing anything.
Hope this helps,
Shawn | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Self built custom
OS 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
CPU Intel i7-3930K 3.2 Ghz (O/C 4 Ghz)
Motherboard ASRock X79 Extreme11
Memory 32 GB (8GBx4) G.SKILL DDR3 Quad PC3-19200 2400MHz
Graphics Card Sapphire HD5870 Eyefinity 6 2GB
Sound Card SB Recon 3Di Integrated Chip
Monitor(s) Displays 3x 27" Asus VE278Q
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution
PSU OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition
Cooling Corsair Hydro H100
Hard Drives 256GB OCZ Vector
160GB OCZ RevoDrive X2
2 x 1TB Samsung HDD HD154UI SATA
Internet Speed 50 Mb/s Download and 2 Mb/s Upload
Other Info Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
Lite-On iHBS212 12x BD Writer
Samsung CLX-3175FW Printer
Netgear WNDR3800 Router
Motorola SBG6580 Cable Modem
2x APC Back-UPS XS 1500
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01 Nov 2009
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Brink's answers are always excellent. Here are a couple of other things which I have tried and which worked. 1. Get hold of a Windows 7 system that works and via the Backup and Restore option of control panel, Create a Recovery CD, boot from the recovery CD, choose applicable option. 2. Boot from a Knoppix CD and copy off your important files before doing a normal Win 7 restore. Knoppix is a Linux-variant which will allow you to access your NTFS Windows 7 partition and files. Just google Knoppix to find latest version. You will find Knoppix easy to use if you have a Linux user with you when you use Knoppix. I strongly advise (I learned the hard way.) that after you're back to a stable system, then do a full and complete backup t9 an external USB drive using the Control Panel Backup and Restore applet. This will create a VHD-format file on the external USB. Using DiskMgmt.msc you can even mount and copy off whatever you want if you only need cetain files. Good luck, Karl | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Toshiba Satellite S875D-S7239 laptop
OS MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
CPU AMD A10-4600M
Motherboard AMD Pumori (Socket FT1)
Memory 6.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-12-28)
Graphics Card AMD Radeon HD 7660G
Sound Card High Definition Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz)
Screen Resolution 1600x900@60Hz
Keyboard Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse HP Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse Model FHA-3410
Hard Drives SSD 119GB Corsair CSSD-V128GB2 ATA Device
Internet Speed What the local pub, local coffee shop offers.
Other Info Optical Drive:MATSHITA BD-CMB UJ160B ATA Device
Also have an Asus ha1002xp netbook with Win 7 Ultimate installed.
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