Create a System Recovery Disc yourself!

[Airbot]

If you type "System" into the search bar you will get "Create a System Repair Disc". You can make a recovery disc within windows yourself. This would be handy if you can not boot into the self healing Recovery options Menu or instead of using an OEM or Installation disc.. It takes about one minute to make a recovery disc.

 

[Brink]

Hi Aaron,

I do not think that is working yet in Windows 7. It will create one, but when you go to test it, it is a dud. The problem is that it does not ask for the Windows 7 installation dvd to be inserted, as it did in Vista, to add the boot files needed.

Did yours work?

 

[Airbot]

Well I made it and then booted off the disk and it loads the windows files and shows the System Recovery Options menu, from which you can choose what option you want....startup repair, restore from backup discs, etc. At what point exactly does it not work at?

 

[garysgold]

When I type System into the start menu I get this. Don't see anything about a disk. Am I missing something?



Maybe indexing isn't finished yet?

Gary

 

[Airbot]

Yeah, yours is different from mine. I can type in sy and it pops up. Did you try typing System Repair Disc?

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[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello.

It's in mine, with either system or System.



Later :shock: Ted

 

[garysgold]

I did and I got 336 items, mostly license.rtf files and saved web pages. No repair disk item though.

Gary

Edit: I have set indexing to index most everything.

 

[limneos]

I works here too...

Hey Brink...the recovery files are hidden (+s +h) ...under C:\Recovery\{GUID}.

There is a ramdisk image "boot.sdi" and the recovery winre.wim...
That's where it finds them from so it doesn't require Win7 DVD.

Cheers

 

[limneos]

This options is available here too..

 

[garysgold]

Update: I tried searching just the C: partition in explorer and unchecked 'hide sys files' and got 160 items, but still no repair disk option.

Gary

 

[garysgold]

This options is available here too..

Yes I found that one, but it should still show up in the search. Not doing so for some reason.

 

[limneos]

hmm...

perhaps you have to open it from there at least once first...have you tried that?

 

[garysgold]

No go. Just went and created the disk via the CP. When it was done I tried the search and still nothing.

 

[limneos]

hmm...I bet users must have run something else before it can appear in search..

anyway, the file's location is in C:\Windows\System32\recdisc.exe

 

[garysgold]

If I type recdisc.exe, it comes right up. Very odd. Thanks.

Gary

 

[Mike]

I'm just restoring to my harddrive, probably a dumb move so I will probably eventually make disks, before I get too many documents and stuff all over the place.

 

[Airbot]

I haven't run anything or even knew it was in the backup and restore center or messed with any indexing and mine showed up.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

If I type recdisc.exe, it comes right up. Very odd. Thanks.

Gary

Hello all.

I just typed Gary's command into "Run" and got this; I haven't done anything with it yet.




Later :shock: Ted

 

[garysgold]

Credit where due. limneos gave the file name. If I type it into the search bar and hit enter, I get the same window. Just odd that the 'system' search shows nothing for me but does for the rest of you. The gnomes are on strike I guess.

Gary

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Sorry limneos....


















Later Ted