MBR/BCD Recovery In Windows 7?
Nov 13, 2012
I have looked at some of the other posts, but I didn't find answers to my specific questions. I have an older pc with Win 7. I bought new hd to have dual boot XP/Windows 7, and I made the mistake of installing XP without first unplugging Win 7 hd. Now, of course my Win 7 MBR was over written by XP during installation. I was thinking of using "EasyBCD" utility to recover Windows 7 MBR, instead of manually at the dos/cmd promt. My question is, after Windows 7 MBR is recovered, will I be able to boot from either XP hd as well as Windows 7 hd? Do I have to make any changes to the BIOS? The answer to this next question may be obvious, but just want to be sure. Do I disconnect XP hd during recovery, or leave it connected? Do I have to do anything to the XP hd MBR, or is that over written during the recovery process, (that is, assuming it is to be left connected)? Reinstalling Windows 7 is not an option at the moment, since I have a lot of software that would need to be reinstalled. Finally, would it make a difference if Windows 7 was 64bit OS, or is the process the same as recovering Windows 7 32bit MBR. Don't remember if Windows 7 is 32 or 64bit. Sorry about the barrage of questions. Just trying to cover all the bases.
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Dec 25, 2012
I have Unallocated space at the very end of my hard drive, even after the 25gb Recovery Partition, this is due to copying my old hard drive onto this new one via Clonezilla, and it automatically keeping the unallocated space at the end. Can I either move the unallocated space around the Recovery Partition, or delete the Recovery Partition altogether? Sorry if I am being a little unclear.
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Jun 23, 2012
I've gotten to the point where I need to just reinstall windows completely on my Asus G74SX (too many problems, I want to start fresh.). I encounter an error 1029 with Asus's recovery disks that I made when I had windows working: it says it is recovering all the way to 100% then doesnt work. I am in the process of trying it again so I'll see if it actually managed to wipe my hard drive like it said it was doing, and maybe if it did actually work and reinstall windows.However, I'd like to be able to get into the recovery partition because I would prefer restoring it with Asus as they recommend me to. However, when I hit F9, their target to get there, it doesn't do anything and just reloads the boot screen, with the Asus logo on it. I don't have an actual Wndows recovery CD so that's not an option, and at this point since my hard drive has likely been wiped by these recovery DVDs, I don't think going into Ubuntu and fixing the MBR will do me much good anymore.It may be worth noting that before I last restarted, I marked the Windows partition as active because of a tutorial here, making it so that recovery partition isn't active anymore.
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Jun 26, 2012
is not empty - it is almost 80% full but when i click on it there are no files. Tried - to the extent of my knowledge - to see if the files are hidden but didn't reach anywhere. Tried a restore point but that didnt work either.
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Mar 4, 2011
I am trying to delete the recovery drive and use all the c and recovery drive with windows 7. I do however want the Toshiba extras that come with it, well some of them. I also would like to use the windows experiance ratings.
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Nov 19, 2011
It seems to me that XP's recovery console is somewhat better than the one that comes with Vista or 7, unless someone can point me in the right direction for finding further documentation on this topic.
The main difference is the lack of ability to tinker with services (LISTSVC / ENABLE / DISABLE commands). A missed opportunity is the lack of registry tweaking, considering that REGEDIT can be run, but I think it only allows you to look at the registry for the recovery console rather than the main Windows installation, which doesn't help much (though I haven't tried to import/mount the registry file from the main Windows installation).
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Dec 27, 2012
Windows is not starting on my laptop and I used restore but that didI am trying to recover the computer and go back to factory settings and I tried everything: F8 F9 F10 F10Alt and I cannot find an option to recover without an image or CD. i am trying the recovery on VAIO Care but it doesnt work in safe mode. Without safe mode Windows shuts down randomly. My computer is VAIO Vpcea21fd and windows 7.What can I do? I think I have a virus,
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Jul 3, 2012
I have laptop with windows 7 home premum 64 bit when I bought my laptop I made 4 DVDs ,3 DVD recovery windows and one DVD wore in it ( you can use this disc to access system recovery option that can help you recovery your computer from a serious error )my question is how i can use these DVDs to restore my system? I have 2 laptop. one for me and the other for my sister my computer work slaw but my sister's computer doesn't boot
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Aug 4, 2012
I have an emachine comp.I would like to burn recovery discs.but I dont have a clue where to start
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Oct 9, 2011
i have 3 pc's with windows 7 installed on all. i would like to format one of them so all memory is wiped clean but im wondering if there is a way of doing this without losing windows 7 or a way of getting windows 7 again after with no disc. the discs wernt supplied with all 3
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Jan 1, 2012
i got a windows 7 2012 virus by downloading a picture so i wanted to use my homemade recovery disks that i made when i first purchased the laptop and i dont know how to use it. i pressed f2 to go to boot options but cds wasnt listed, also when i restarted the laptop with the cds inside it doesnt prompt me to do anything, it justs boots normally. how do i use these disks?!
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Apr 4, 2012
I am receiving a windows error recovery each time we power up the compter. The first thing that comes up is windows error recovery. It says to use system repair (recommended) but when we do that it just goes to boot recovery. The other option we get is start windows normally...windows then starts but then freezes and goes right back to windows boot manager. It will not even load up in safe mode anymore.
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Jun 19, 2012
I have a toshiba satellite with Windows 7; approximately 2 years old.I would like to reinstall Windows 7 and have a series of Recovery DVDs. However, I am not exactly sure how to go about doing this.I need detailed instructions as I am not very computer savvy.
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Jun 22, 2012
Is there a repair with these disks? I am getting a BOOTMGR missing but I checked the hard drive and it is fine. I do not want to lose anything because I have a lot on it.I cloned my image about 5 days ago and I may go that route, however, I have done things since then and don't want to lose the data. Before I load the HP Recovery disks (4 of them, and I had to order them for free except pay for shipping), is there a repair option?
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Nov 8, 2012
I have my brothers Dell vostro laptop with me. Right now it has a fresh windows 7 install. But I need to re-install Windows 7 using his 2 recovery dvds. Edit 2: I got the screen in which they asked me to put the last dvd from the system image. I put it and clicked refresh but it isn't showing up in the list.
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May 14, 2011
It's a HP Pavillion running Windows 7. When I start it up it goes into Windows Error Recovery, does it's thing then says "Startup Repair canot repair this computer automatically". I've then tried going into the advanced options where I can run a system restore but this fails too. Is there anything else I can do?
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Jun 6, 2011
I just got some virus that im assuming is either scareware or ransomware that prompted me to buy some windows 7 recovery bs. I managed to remove the virus, i think so at least, with Malewarebytes software but now all my programs are gone.
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Jun 7, 2011
cleaning up this virus to restore my program folders that are showing up as empty.Unfortunately, I ran a temp files cleaner and I no longer have the smtmp folder. Is there a way for me to restore this? There is no way I am going to restore all those shortcuts manually!
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Aug 5, 2012
Now I am having trouble on starting Windows. I get the "Windows Error Recovery" screen on startup or restart. And now I also get a blue screen that says something about "dumping files" at the bottom, it goes by so quickly I can't read everything.I've done some reading on the internet and most say that my registry has been compromised and to buy a registery cleaner. Is this correct? I am afraid to do anything, I don't want to lose what is on my harddrvie.I went to system restore and chose a restore point but then was afraid if I did that I would any programs I had installed, like the PC Tools I just installed last night
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Nov 1, 2009
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Dec 22, 2010
how to get into recovery environment upon booting up .I'm facing a boot mbr problem when installing a new os on a hd on a removable hdisk drawer. i were told to write new boot procedure at recovery console prompt but i do not know how to get into recovery environment on bootup.
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Jan 27, 2011
Im running in Ubuntu and Made a USB recovery to get my Windows partition back from SFS. I changed the type to NTFS via testdisk. I loaded the recovery software once and tried to do a repair. It restarted and now when I try to boot the USB it brings up the Windows bootloader with a 0xc0000098 error that has to do with boot/BCD.
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Jul 4, 2010
My HP Pavilion DV7 laptop will not do a system recovery after I hit F11 when I boot the PC.The recovery drive on my computer says it's just about full.It's running windows 7 64-bit
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Jul 27, 2012
I have a Toshiba c660, I've decided to reformat it using toshiba HDD recovery because the hdd was full and was having a malware. Then after the recovery it said that i need to type the activation key for windows, I don't know it, and I don't own the CD of the windows so I used a keyfinder software to find it, then I typed it and this error appeared. This is not a pirated windows because before the recovery it was fine and the activation key was working. And also when i use slui.exe 4 the phone option doesn't appear, it only shows the options of buying one, contacting and try a different one. There are no stickers at the bottom of the laptop or in the battery compartment telling the product key.[CODE]
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May 28, 2011
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Aug 24, 2011
Just bought a ASUS laptop with 7 home premiun 64 bit on it. I do have a Windows 7 Pro installation disc that I have for my scratch built desktop. Can I use that disc to reinstall windows on the laptop if need be and just use the license # from the laptop and I assume microsoft will just turn off the added features of Pro??? or do I have to create that 4 dvd recovery disk?? Also if ya know this is a ASUS A53E that has a super multi DVD drive is that dual
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May 17, 2012
I have two identical Acer Aspire One (722) netbooks each running Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit).The OS came pre-installed on the netbooks with no Windows 7 disks. There is a Windows 7 product key number on the underside of each computer.One of the netbooks experienced a HDD crash that I have been unable to recover from. I am not able to boot. I tried several different repair utilities and recovery disks. I am able to see all the files and folders when I view the drive using a SATA to USB adapter cable on another PC.
I am going to install a new SSD to replace the failed HDD.I created an image of the HDD from the other identical working netbook.(I failed to create an image or back-up of the HDD that failed - my bad.)I want to install this image onto the new SSD that will then go into the netbook that has the bad HDD.I assume at this point I need to do something with the activation licenses or product keys,because I don't want to do anything illegal.I also don't want to have to buy a new copy of Windows 7, since I feel I already had bought two working copies as part of the two netbook purchases.
So my question is, do I then have to reenter or change the product key from the newly installed (restored) image file from the working netbook and use the product key that was originally associated with the netbook that had the failed HDD? How do I do this? Will this plan work? I want to end up with two working netbooks each with their own legal and activated version of Windows 7 with the two product keys that I have, just as I had before I suffered the HDD failure.I realize I could have avoided all this if I had created an image and back-up of the HDD that actually failed.
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Jul 2, 2012
I have lost the password of Windows 7,without this password I'm not able to access my computer. What should i do to recover my password back?
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Jul 31, 2012
windows 7 recovery disks and ssds. I bought a computer with the OS preinstalled on the ssd.
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