Recovering Windows 7 Without CD?
Feb 3, 2011
My friend's laptop won't boot. You turn it on and the Advent symbol comes up and gives you an option to go into the BIOS or onto system recovery. It allows you to go no further. If you go to system recovery you can't even do anything, the typing cursor style thing is just flashing. He doesn't have the CDs to recover Windows 7 and restore it.Is there any way to restore? I also have an Advent laptop, would it work if I made a recovery CD from control panel for Windows 7 and then use it to boot and restore his Windows?
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Mar 26, 2012
My new laptop, after about 8 months of service, yesterday refused to be turned on again. No reaction to pressing the on button. The power supply seems to work. Before sending it for repair, I opened it and got the 2 HDs out in order to recodev some data using a SATA/USB adapter. Unfortunately, BOTH disks, when connected to another PC using the adapter, say that they need formatting. I tried to open a DOS window and typed : chkdsk e: /r It replied that the file system was RAW and chkdsk didn't work for it. When connected to a Linux PC, I can see the partitions but I could not mount them.
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May 21, 2012
I work at a pawn shop and someone did a reinstall on a pc that had a 7 ultimate upgrade from 7 home prem. Is there any way to recover the key for the 7 ultimate? Keep in mind this pc was out of pawn and can't ask the original owner.
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Oct 26, 2010
I had given my Pc to someone to fix it and he did that but also reinstalled windows 7 (fresh install), even though there weren't any problems with windows. I've lost all my settings, favourites, games, software etc. Is there any way to recover the old windows installation? Or atleast the favourites, games, software individually?
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Nov 6, 2009
I have just upgraded from 32 bit Vista Home Premium to 64 bit Windows 7 Professional. I did the custom upgrade and have a huge Windows.old folder that contains most of the files from my Vista setup. I forgot to save my Windows Mail files. I'm assuming that they are still in this folder somewhere. Is there a way to recover them to use in Outlook 2003 (its what my company still uses) or Thunderbird? I have tried a few methods to use Windows Mail in Windows 7 but haven't managed to get any of them working.
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Aug 30, 2012
I bought a Corsair force 3 SSD 60GB and I'm using it as a cache with IRST on my Asus p8z68 v-pro /gen 3 mobo (bios updated), well something has happened 3 times since. First I performed a clean windows 7 32 bits install, and installed the latest intel IRST drivers 10.8 (and now 11.2), then installed a game called SWTOR played for a few weeks everything was fine. Then uninstalled the game (20gb size) and after a couple of times using the pc, I can't shut down windows 7, had to press the power button off, then on, then a screen appears telling me intel caching is rebuilding itself and finally 0 access to windows 7.
Seems IMO like the raid 0 is not working anymore. I've never had issues with my pc and my HDD drive so I am suspecting 100% about the corsair ssd drive. I have had this issue 3 times since last March all after doing a full clean windows 7 installations, sometimes I updgraded the mobo bios other the ssd firmware currently everything is updated even the ISRT drivers however this issue still happened today again for the third time.
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Nov 30, 2011
My Hard-drive recently crashed so I purchased a new one but I didn't have my recovery CD's so I went ahead and used my friends Windows 7 "ULTIMATE" disc not realizing that the product key I own is a Windows 7 "Home Premium" key. Now Ultimate is installed on my machine and not authenticated so I purchased the recovery discs for Home Premium from the manufacturer's website but when I boot up the PC with the disc in the CD-ROM it just goes straight to windows and won't recognize or load the disc.
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Dec 28, 2011
I accidentally deleted a partition in Windows 7 (dynamic disk) using the disk management tools. That partitions is full of works and photos from the last 2 years. Are there any way I can recover the data? The space left by the deleted partition are still un-allocated at the moment. Do I need to create the partition prior to data recovery? I am using Active Partition recovery to scan at the moment. No result yet.
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Nov 19, 2012
i want to install windows 8 without recovering my windows 7 in my hp pavilion dv6
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Oct 12, 2011
Rebootedmy laptop after latest Windows 7 updates. While closing it started installing latest service pack. Next time I looked at screen it had gone to a black screen scrolling white text. Each line is 'Recovering orphaned file xxxxx into directory xxxxx' has been doinng this continuously for an hour now with 2 or 3 occasional half second pauses. Any ideas what is happening and what I should do next?
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Mar 8, 2012
I am trying to recover my ASUS K52D Notebook PC to factory settings. I am currently running Windows 7 operating system. I do have the Driver & Utility Ver.1.0 disk, but I have lost the System recovery disk that was made by the store where I purchased my laptop from. I have tried recurring it using the partition file thing that's on my computer, but I received an error message. I am wondering, is there a way to recover my Notebook to factory settings without using the partition or the recovery DVD?
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Aug 15, 2011
I have a duplicate image of my windows 7 system. I want to move my windows 7 system off from my 2TB drive on to a smaller 500GB drive instead. I used an imaging program to duplicate the drive contents onto the 500GB drive. My question now is, is it safe to switch to my 500GB as my primary drive and boot up from it without affecting my Windows 7 activation status, or do I need to de-activate it first on the 2TB drive then re-activate on the 500GB drive?
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Oct 24, 2010
I got a pretty bad virus on my Asus G72GX-A1, from which I could not get rid off.After backing up decided to run the Windows 7 Recovery Media Disc included with the computer.I booted up the computer from the recovery disc, selected the language and selected recover windows 7 at HD with 2 partitions. The program starts a counter, which goes to 100%, afterwards it prompts me to insert the support disc. After inserting the disc, a cmd windows opens up and apparently it runs a program calles AsCopy.exe.After some time, the computer restarts and, at the Setup is starting services screen, an error message pops up with the following message: "Windows could not complete the installation.To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation."I did the same process over 10 times, tried the options of recovering just the windows partition and the entire HD, but I get the same problem over and over again.
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Jan 15, 2013
I have installed the operating system again, thinking that I would have kept all the applications installed, but I now have only the Windows.old folder
My question is: how can I get the calendar I used to have in Outlook 2010 and import it into Outlook 2010 I have installed now?
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Mar 4, 2012
I was repartitioning a 3 NTFS partitioned 1,5tb drive down to one partition via win 7 Disk Management tool. I successfully shrank one of the partitions. After shrinking the second partition, win 7 had a hiccup and reported the remaining single partition is now in a 'RAW' format. I still have data on the drive that i would like to recover prior to reformatting it.Apparently, on reading up about "RAW' files, the data is still there. What i would like to do is to somehow view the data and extract portions of it at a time to other smaller hds. From what i has read i can only extract everything to another 1.5tb drive, which i just don,t have available. If i can find a solution, i will eventually reformat and reuse my 1.5tb drive.How can i extract portions of data from a "raw" drive to a second smaller drive?
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Dec 12, 2012
I have a cd-r disc that won't open that has pictures on it, how can i open it & recover the pictures.
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Jan 29, 2013
After reinstalling a new coly of windows 7 i cannot find my pictures in folders windows.old.The strange think is that i cannot find the pictures and the files that where in a sub folder inside a directory. The capacity of my hard disk shows that files are not deleted but i still cannot find them.
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Aug 23, 2012
Not one of the smartest things I did but my mate gave me his old computer excluding the HDDs
So I installed my HDD into it and thought while I was at it might as well upgrade to windows 7 (From XP) since I had to reinstall the OS. I installed window 7 using the upgrade option and the HDD were cleaned. I left it for a while only to come back now an unbootabe computer..... I reinstalled having to go through the custom install. I can now log into the computer.
Is the data on my HDDs gone forever? Also the OS isnt recognising one of my HDD's?? (Maybe save it for another post)
If this isnt the right section please let me know where to repost
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Dec 13, 2011
I recently had some spyware hit my computer and then removed. Since removing the spyware, one of the things i have noticed that is not working properly since is that when i click on the "Start" Menu, then try to highlight and open one of the programs in the "All Programs" folder, i get a message sub the program saying "empty" and then the programs will not open. i have tried to update windows and also run a command prompt computer scan.
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Jan 7, 2012
My husband's laptop had an issue. When that issue occurred our father in law created a stack of back-up discs. My husband had 100s of music CDs loaded on his laptop. so these recovery discs include all that music. He had his computer system restored by Geek squad with windows 7. But we can't figure out how to restore this stack of discs with all of his music. We've searched on windows help with no luck. He puts the disc into the e: drive and the files are visible. We don't simply drag and drop right?
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Dec 29, 2012
Tonight I was reformatting my external hard drive when I accidentally chose the wrong drive and reformatted my internal hard drive. My screen went black and now I have a computer with no operating to boot up. What are my chances of recovering? How can I recover my hard drive?
P. S. I tried doing a system restore and my disks hang on 80% completion twice now.
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Sep 11, 2011
I made a system image backup from my ssd,then I bought another ssd to put the system image on,I tried when the 2nd ssd was completely empty; it saysthere is no disk to recover to ( or something like that )then I installed clean version of windows on the 2nd ssdafter that I tried restoring via the system repair disc but it kept telling me the same message
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Mar 30, 2012
Right, I was basically writing a series of files onto my dvd-r using the windows 7 cd burner (the default one). The problem is, I cut-pasted them onto the dvd.Now, this was the fourth DVD being burnt and I had done the other three quite successfully. However, the third DVD, despite deing burnt, was still showing the files as *not* burnt. The problem was that the completion dialog hadn't shown upThat didn't seem to be a problem. I therefore deleted those files (which were written successfully) and cut-pasted the next batch for the next DVD. So far so good.However, the burn completion dialog now showed up. In my haste, I clicked finished. Because of this, my newly copied files were deleted (as Wi
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Sep 13, 2009
I have recently installed windows 7 RC on my pc but after installation my D drive has been missing. It has all my final year college projects and other important information which i totally hate to loose.
This is my disk management screenshot where it has not assigned any letter to my missing 20 gb drive and it is taken as system type.
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May 25, 2012
So i have my computer running with a 120gb ssd as the boot drive and 2x 1tb hdds in raid 0 for the data. And today when i went to boot up my computer the raid 0 failed to start....both of the drives are detected but only one appears to be in the raid 0 volume. I know the disc physically still have all there data on them because i have not touched them. Is there any way that i can recover that raid 0 volume? i ask because i have data programs and complicated mk links setup to manage the files.....and yes i know i should have backups..i have a asus p8z68-v pro gen 3 board with 8gb ram and a i5-2500k
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Mar 7, 2011
When you delete files from a network share, they don't go to the recycle bin, they go for good. So I'm looking for a freeware version of Diskeeper's Undelete - something that can be used to recover deletions from networked drives.
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Apr 11, 2012
All of the desktop Icons on my Father-in-Laws laptop have disappeared. He says he didnt do anything to cause it to happen. I have tried various methods read on this forum , to no avail. They are not in the recyle bin, and do not appear if I try to re-create them.
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Oct 16, 2011
I recently lost my partitions while resizing it using a software.Getting directly to the point, I re installed windows 7 on C: after formatting it. But the D: drive where all my files are backed up is now unrecognized. I have used another recovery software and recovered some photos & videos, but I'm sure some more important files are still remaining. Can I rebuild or re-structure the D: drive using a software so that I get it back in its actual state, i.e just like how it was before my resizing accident? If yes, which is the software I should use/buy ?
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Jul 15, 2011
I've been having problems restoring my laptop. It came with a system restore partition on it, but I've been unable to access it due to the laptop failing to stay on long enough to do so. So i wiped the laptop and installed my PC's copy of Windows 7 on there, didn't activate or anything. I did this so i could actually get in the laptop and restore it. When i installed it showed me the partition's still there for the recovery. So i installed on the main drive, leaving the recovery partition alone. Now I've got a fresh install I cant see how to recover it off that partition.
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Oct 7, 2012
how to recover a lost confirmation page. I entered a lottery visa today. I wanted to print the confirmation page but firefox was not responding. At the request of my aunt, I clicked the option to close the firefox program. I restarted firefox and the confirmation page did not reappear. The tab is not in my browsing history either. Is there anyway I can retrieve the information from my computer files?I have tried looking at the browser history. It was the only page not showing up. I have tried looking at the firefox cache but it only showed the last two hours of activity. I have tried looking in the temp files but all of the ones I have went to in the computer are from days ago. I cannot find a folder that says internet temporary files.
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Apr 9, 2011
Recovering my system a faced this error after the instalation was started, so now my HD is formated and I can't start my windows in anyway, when I try I get the follow message:Windows couldn't.a recent hardware or software change might have caused the problem. To get fixed: 1-Insert the Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2-Choose your language settings and click "Next. " 3-Click "Repair your computer ". If you do not have the disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance. Status: 0xc000000f________My pc is an acer aspire with was runnig windows 7 ultimate can?
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