Image your system with free Macrium

spencer1 · 24 Jun 2013

Is Win PE the "system repair disc" that Windows 7 creates?

Here is the repair disc boot menu:

Britton30 · 24 Jun 2013

No, Macrium make it's own WinPE disk. The windows rescue disk is to get into the advanced options, it won't restore an image.

spencer1 · 24 Jun 2013

Oh I see. So the Windows 7 system repair disc is also a WinPE.. but of a different flavor so to speak.

mjf · 24 Jun 2013

Similar but it is a WinRe. It contains repair tools.

spencer1 · 25 Jun 2013

Got it. Hopefully I won't be in those "environments" too often.

kado897 · 25 Jun 2013

It does restore images but only those made with Windows Backup. The WinPE disk we are talking about here is built on the same code base but contains Macrium built in to it.

spencer1 · 25 Jun 2013

^^Yes, I noticed that image recovery is one of the choices on the repair disc menu.

EchoX860 · 30 Jun 2013

Tried Windows 8, despised it so I wanted to go back to 7. I had a image backup of just all the updates successfully installed. How can I use this as well as the diskpart full hard drive format? Or will this image take care everything for me

Britton30 · 30 Jun 2013

You can reformat the drive with the MacriumPE disk. The imaging process should do it for you as well.

mjf · 30 Jun 2013

Britton30 said:

You can reformat the drive with the MacriumPE disk. The imaging process should do it for you as well.

ditto
But I would be cautious "upgrading" to Windows 8 from a retail Windows 7 OS license. You may forfeit your Windows 7 license rights?
@EchoX860
You appear to be running an OEM PC so you should be ok.