System Repair Disk not booting into repair options

[Bob Vance]

Created it with no problems, apparently at least. My BIOS is set to boot from CD drive...so why won't my machine boot from the system repair disk? There were no errors when disk was created. My machine just boots to windows.

Anyone else experience this with Win 7 Professional?

Any tips?

 

[gregrocker]

You can also access the Repair console by booting into the Installer, or using f8 at bootup if you have the 100mb boot/repair partition installed along with Win7.

 

[Bob Vance]

Thanks. Glad you brought that up. I was going to ask if I could do this without the disc. I am sure I have that small partition

 

[Ryan2320]

Try This..
Put you CD in the tray when Windows 7 is on and you are logged on is there anything on the CD??

It should look something like this.(screenshot below)
That will at least rule out your CD/DVD Drive..
Hope this Helps..

 

[SIW2]

You can check it is bootable - pick it up with the free ( unregistered ) version of PowerIso- just click the d/l link :

PowerISO - Create, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Mount, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive

The problem with booting WinRe is - it only works if you can get as far as bootmanager.

Usually you want to use it because you can't boot.

Created it with no problems, apparently at least. My BIOS is set to boot from CD drive...so why won't my machine boot from the system repair disk? There were no errors when disk was created. My machine just boots to windows.

Anyone else experience this with Win 7 Professional?

Any tips?

 

[Bob Vance]

Try This..
Put you CD in the tray when Windows 7 is on and you are logged on is there anything on the CD??

It should look something like this.(screenshot below)
That will at least rule out your CD/DVD Drive..
Hope this Helps..

Yes. I did see this. Thanks. There was 264MB of data on disk as I checked properties.

 

[Bob Vance]

You can check it is bootable - pick it up with the free ( unregistered ) version of PowerIso- just click the d/l link :

PowerISO - Create, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Mount, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive

The problem with booting WinRe is - it only works if you can get as far as bootmanager.

Usually you want to use it because you can't boot.

Created it with no problems, apparently at least. My BIOS is set to boot from CD drive...so why won't my machine boot from the system repair disk? There were no errors when disk was created. My machine just boots to windows.

Anyone else experience this with Win 7 Professional?

Any tips?

That raises a huge question if its not bootable. That would be a first in all OS i have used. I will check to see if its bootable. Good tip

 

[Bob Vance]

You can check it is bootable - pick it up with the free ( unregistered ) version of PowerIso- just click the d/l link :

PowerISO - Create, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Mount, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive

The problem with booting WinRe is - it only works if you can get as far as bootmanager.

Usually you want to use it because you can't boot.

Created it with no problems, apparently at least. My BIOS is set to boot from CD drive...so why won't my machine boot from the system repair disk? There were no errors when disk was created. My machine just boots to windows.

Anyone else experience this with Win 7 Professional?

Any tips?

That raises a huge question if its not bootable. That would be a first in all OS i have used. I will check to see if its bootable. Good tip

By the way, How will I know if its bootable or not via this software?

 

[SIW2]

It tells you at bottom left:



You can also use it to create a virtual cdrom drive and run it from that.You can edit .iso's too - up to 300mb with the free version - which is often all you need.

 

[Bob Vance]

Im an idiot. My BIOS was not set to boot to CD first. Fixed!! But thanks for tips. I learned a lot tonight

Next problem. Tried making system recovery disks but it keeps conking out on second of three DVDs to write telling me I need higher quality disks. Frst disk was written. Maybe I will just buy them from HP

 

[gregrocker]

Im an idiot. My BIOS was not set to boot to CD first. Fixed!! But thanks for tips. I learned a lot tonight

Next problem. Tried making system recovery disks but it keeps conking out on second of three DVDs to write telling me I need higher quality disks. Frst disk was written. Maybe I will just buy them from HP

You can wait to order those recovery disks until you need to reinstall Vista, which you will never have to do if.....

After you get Win7 installed and running to your satisfaction, you'll never need to reinstall either OS again if you use the Win7 Backup Imaging utlity to make an image of your HDD which can easily be reimaged.

I make a primary formatted partition on each of my machines to store the image for easy detection if reimaging is needed, but it is best to store a copy externally in case of HDD failure. You just boot from the installer's Repair console, Recover Using Image and reimage your HDD or a replacement in 15 minutes.

 

[Ryan2320]

I agree with gregrocker, I would use the imaging utilities within Windows 7 to make your backups, that in the event of a Windows 7 crash you can just re-image your HDD the way before it crashed and not have the hassle of unstalling all of that software that came with your computer and installing all the software that you need...

Hope this Helps..

 

[Bob Vance]

Thanks for replies. I did make an image the moment the machine was registered. I always like to have all my options covered but I have always used images to restore my mistakes on XP and older OS'. Im a bit irked that I could not make the recovery disks myself but now understand I have about 4 other options outside of recovery disks. The system reapir disc and F8 on boot up both work

My next experiment will be seeing if I can use Seagate DiskWizard (free Seagate/Maxtor OEM version of Acronis True Image) to image machine. I like their .tib files better than the Windows imaging. Seagate support said it should work on Windows 7