Restoring Windows 7 Onto New Computer
Oct 27, 2012
I am not new to Windows 7 at all, and I know quite a bit but I have never came across the problem that I am faced with.My old computers motherboard failed and quit on me, causing the computer not to boot or even turn on. So I got a new one. My question: What and how is the easiest way for me to restore my Windows 7 onto my new computer (all new hardware), without loosing any system settings, programs, files ect. I dont have a backup point of the old Windows 7. All I have is the HD with Windows 7 on it. (However I have a backup of all of the important files.) Searching around a little on my own I could not find anything on how to restore Windows 7 without making a restore point in the past.
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Sep 19, 2011
So, I recently bought a used computer from CL. The machine is a Dell Laptop that originally had Windows Vista installed on it. The original owner upgraded to Windows 7 Enterprise and had a bunch of new software installed on the machine. (FL Studio, Photoshop, etc.)I was able to use the computer successfully for the first day until I installed iTunes. Something went wrong, and now when I boot up in normal mode Windows will freeze as soon as i try to open anything. I can open the Start menu, but anything past that will cause a freeze. The computer works fine in all Safe ModesSo, what I would like to do is restore Windows 7 to it's original configurations and still be able to keep all those great programs already installed. However, I do not any of the Windows 7 media that was used for the upgrade. What can I do? Will creating a system image work, or will I end up just copying the freeze problem if I do that?
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Jul 11, 2012
I have a question about restoring my hard drive. Recently, i bought a laptop from the pawn shop. I have been using the laptop for a couple of weeks and have some unimportant programs and files on it. Factory my hard drive is 222.22 Gb, but currently it's space is 179.8 GB. Since, i bought the laptop from the pawn shop, i did not get any windows disc. I'm afraid that if i restore to out-of-box-state that i wont be able to have windows 7 anymore and would be left with a laptop paper weight. i have made a repair disc but i did not make an restore disc. Should, i create this recovery disc before restoring? Also, is there anything else that, i should do before going threw with the Factory Restore?
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Sep 28, 2012
I've backed up my computer using macrium using system imagine how do I restore my computer bk to that cos I've saved it onto a external hd as I've got no DVDs or CDs and I tried doing it through macrium and it said it couldn't because its on a external hd so I copied it to the desktop and still no joy?
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Feb 24, 2011
My friend just tried to run a restore on his computer (against my advice) and he somehow uninstalled all of his programs and reset his rights to standard user. I know for fact he didnt have any restore points on his computer (company computer, they dont have it turned on) would this restore go back to his fresh install? I'm trying to figure out where to go from here.
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Jun 21, 2012
I am attempting to restore my 3 year old HP desktop back to factory condition. My question is my computer shipped with vista and I later upgraded to windows 7. Will recovering the computer to original factory condition roll me back to vista and delete windows 7?
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Nov 1, 2012
I'm certain that this has been answered before but I am aware that for certain computers it can be quite different.My question is how do I restore my computer to factory settings? I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H, I've looked all over the manual and still can not figure out exactly how. I always try to access my BIOS but there seems to be no recovery management on it. I have my Win7 reinstallation disc and Gigabyte Drivers installation disc if that helps.I'll reinstall windows if I have to, but only if it'll reset everything. I have a 60GB Boot Drive and a 1TB hard drive.
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Mar 30, 2012
I just did a factory restore on my computer. Now it's asking for a user name as well as a password. I used what I'm sure was my user name and password, but it isn't working. I can't find my password reset disk.
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Sep 23, 2011
I own an HP G70 laptop which came preinstalled with vista. I received a free copy of Windows 7 (as an .iso image) with a legitimate activation code through MSDNAA. I burned the image to a DVD and install Windows 7 from the burned disk doing the necessary task of formatting the hard drive, etc. etc. Now, before I started installing programs and putting my files back from back up disks, the idea of making a system image right when I first started up Windows went over my head (fail on my part), so if I were to make one now, it would be over a 30GB. Now, if my hard drive were to go bad, can I just restore Windows 7 with the installation disc I made instead of making a system image or recovery partition?
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Jan 18, 2012
we have two different PC's[PC1 and PC2](hardware totally different) PC1 After preparing all my windows 7 (installing programs, configuring them, installing updates, activating programs and so on) I make my drive C: total image back up to external hard drive. PC2 I Boot up windows 7 recovery startup and choose restore from image and then I put in external hard drive with usb and make it restored on my other computer. Everything looks fine, it finishes with no errors and then system restarts. When windows are finishing to show "Windows starting" screen, computer restarts instantly.Then system autimatically suggests me to repair it, so ok then auto repairs are scaning and guess what it can't repair, because it finds some kind of problem with drivers, could be that they are incompatible with my new PC.how to make this work, how to fix issue that old PC's drivers are being loaded, maybe I am able to turn it off so default drivers are being loaded?The reason why I want to make this work cause I want to use it for multiple computers.
Simple summary:
PC1 Windows Image backed up to external HDD
PC2 Windows Image restored from external HDD
PC2 Windows can't start because of driver error
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Jun 20, 2012
A few months ago I upgraded my Sony Vaio E-series Laptop memory from 4gb to 8gb of RAM. Within the hour of the upgrade I received a few blue screens closing windows in order to protect it (best I can recall of the message) from a certain threat. (I believe it is good to note that I play Global Agenda, which I probably shouldn't since its an i3 2.4 Ghz without a video card) I let the computer rest that day and afterwards it has been working fine (with the occasional blue screen crash whenever the computer's fan runs high) Recently the number of blue screen crashes has increased when ever I would run processor heavy programs such as Vegas Pro 11 (video editing) or even Global Agenda when the computer is cool. It eventually got to the point where windows explorer would freeze sometimes (and it would take a while to unfreeze) I eventually couldn't take it so I concluded that something was either wrong with the hard drive or a virus which AVG or Kaspersky couldn't detect.
First before booting up to windows I pressed F10 to bring up Vaio Care Recovery (or something along those lines.) I believe I skipped the restore point restore and went strait to erase or format the hard drive. The process started after a ten second countdown and stopped at 43% giving me this error message:"An Error occurred while executing an application. The operation was not completed. Shut down your computer then try the operation again after Reboot.Error:320"
I tried formatting the hard drive about 4-6 times each with the same message. I quit. Then I found two recovery discs that I had created earlier. One I wrote "Vaio Backup Disk" which was on a Duel Layer DVD and the other "Repair Disc Windows 7 Boot Disk" on a CD-R. I inserted the Repair Disc and windows loaded files containing system recovery options. A window opened up containing the following message about either Restoring your computer using a system image or use the recovery tools that can help fix problems starting windows. == One thing to note is that in the middle was a graph showing operating systems - partition size - and location. There were none of those shown; no operating system or what so ever == So apparently I couldn't choose system restore point since there was no system to restore. I eventually got to the command prompt and choose to finish the job that Vaio Care Restore couldn't which was to format the hard drive. I looked through the internet, found out how to do it and formatted everything that had to do with the storage (didn't touch the recovery partition). == I had about 4 volumes. C: D: E: F:. I believe I combined C: and D: since there was no need to have them partitioned. And finally formatted them. I tried formatting the Recovery partition, but it wouldn't let me. == After all of this I inserted a Windows 7 Home Edition installation disc but one of three things would pop up after the Vaio logo. One would say that bootmgr is missing. (this is the most recent message and the rest have popped up in the past, but do not continue to do so.) Other messages would say that there is no operating system found, or if it reads the disc at all that a certain file in the boot folder is not valid or found. I am pretty sure that the installation disc works because it launches right away on my other computers.
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Jan 3, 2013
Okay, I'm sure this is really quite easy, but for whatever the reason I'm finding it really confusing...
How do you restore your computer to factory settings with a windows 7 disc?
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Sep 28, 2011
i have downloaded a windows 9 version for my laptop. and i dont like it, i prefer windows 7. how do i remove it and get it back to ho
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Oct 1, 2012
I've been placed in charge of setting up new PCs at work.These are tablet PCs and the hardware in each is identical...I've now setup one PC to function EXACTLY how I want it.My question is, what's the best way to image the entire drive and then load it onto subsequent PCs (please nothing like PXE) the restore will be done from a USB thumb drive.
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Jan 14, 2013
The hard drive failed on my friend's Win 7 laptop. I replaced the hard drive, now I am in the process of recovering documents that he had backed up on an external hard drive. He was using Windows Backup.When I start the application in restore mode and direct it to the external hard drive, it shows a backup done on Jan 2. But when I browse through the backup folders using Windows Backup, it does not show any of his recent files. I went ahead and restored the folders, but the most recent files in the restored user folders are only from mid November
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Jan 18, 2013
My main desktop PC having HDD only setup, then I bought a Intel 320 Series 80GB SSD and migrated my system over to it using Intel's software, then made the HDD a storage drive due to limited space on my SSD. Fast forward to now. My SSD is basically dead from a firmware bug that makes data irrecoverable without some special algorithm that professional data recovery centers have. Oddly enough, it came back to life, I rebooted, imaged whole system including both drives. I had been doing this, but most recent backup was a month prior, so I stood to lose quite a bit that I had done over that month stretch. The new image went great. I was saved and so excited. Apparently that was a one and done deal, as it never has worked since then.
I intend on ordering new (bigger) SSD to replace it, keeping setup the same, as new SSD will still be too small. Now from my understanding, I can restore my image to both drives and everything will be as it it never left? Is this correct? How about things like partition alignment or special SSD configuration that I had to do some of when I first configured it as so? Is that carried over since it would be in the image or am I good to go once restore is complete? Also, in meantime, I have another SSD in box, but it is smaller. Is it worthwhile to use that temporarily, then migrate system over to new SSD when I get it? Or should I just wait until I get new SSD and restore current image to that?
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Dec 31, 2010
I have windows 7 on a pc with only a 70gb drive. I want to upgrade the drive to a TB drive. I have only two slots for sata drives. I am considering buying two 1 tb drives. Is there some way I can make an image or a back up of my current windows set up and then load it to the new drive?
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Jun 9, 2011
I am trying to do something very similar, but not quite exactly the same as here. I hope that there might be someone here that has some tips that would be useful to what I am trying to acheive.
I just got a new system running Windows 7. I bought the "professional" version of Windows 7, so that I would be able to run "XP only" programs. I have some old software from companies that went belly up and no longer provide support. I was told that the professional version would run these programs, but I guess I didn't do my research well enough. They are not compatible.
What I would like to do now is run a dual boot between Windows 7 and XP. The difference in my case is that rather than doing a clean install of windows XP on the new partition, I would like to restore an image that I have of my old computer's drive (running XP) to the new partition on the new system (running Windows 7). Restoring to a new hardware environment shouldn't be a problem in theory, since I am using Acronis True Image Home 2011 with the add on that facilitates this.
I am assuming that the process would be the same, up until the point that the directions here say to insert the CD to install windows XP.
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Dec 10, 2011
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Jan 24, 2012
Twice now I have had all the updates that I have hidden become unhidden and indicate by bubble message that "updates are ready to be downloaded and installed."
Since these are mostly language packs they are NOT required for my system. Any idea why this has happened?
This last time this happened I had rebooted after a iTunes update and the bubble message popped up. Not sure what the circumstances were the first time.
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Mar 14, 2012
So I recently reinstalled a clean copy of windows and kept a full backup of my old one on a seperate hard drive, I reinstalled windows because of driver issues, and I was wondering if it was possible to restore back to my old one without ALL drivers. I would reinstall motherboard and graphics drivers after if this is possible.
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Jan 5, 2013
Before I had my current PC I used a cheap little Acer I got at Best Buy that served me well over the years. It's got some age on it though and it runs very slowly by now. I wiped it clean as best as I could, running antiviruses and ad aware, but it still feels very slow. With my new PC I bought a copy of Windows and I was wondering if I could use this disc to help me restore my Acer to it's original state. I know I can't actually format the drive and use it to install a fresh Win 7 on it, but can I just perform a restore with it?
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Feb 14, 2011
My computer (details below) is new and after using it for two weeks a message appeared on the screen last night asking me if I would like to create a set of DVD discs that could be used to restore it to factory state if needed. It cautioned that this set could only be made once. Since I was busy at the time I closed the message.
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Jan 5, 2012
I recently got a SSD for my comp, before installing I did a backup of windows and included the system image option. I am now on a fresh install of windows but can only restore the files I had on my old windows and not the entirety of windows (programs, program settings.. ect). How can I use this image to put everything back exactly the way it was before?
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Jan 30, 2012
I had to reload Windows 7, and made a backup copy of my hard-disk before restore. When I reloaded the backup files, most went well, but some of the .pst files took an extra effort. BUT 7 years of personal folders were nowhere to be found! The backup file is about 58 zipped folders of 200 MB. How can I look up for my personal folders in this backup? Adress book, sent items and some other folders I have recovered, but all my saved e-mails (sent and received) are lost or at least disappeared.
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Oct 24, 2009
I'm trying to restore files from a Vista backup into 7, but, once they're restored I can't find them.
It only affects files that were in the various 'my documents', 'my downloads' etc folders on my Vista install - files from other partitions etc restore fine.
It seems as if the files are definitely being restored somewhere, because if I restore them again I get 'would you like to overwrite these files' dialogs. I've tried searching for the filenames after they're restored but they don't appear. I think maybe it's possible that 7 is restoring them under a different user (although my user name on 7 is the same as it was on Vista).
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Jun 14, 2012
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May 23, 2012
I have an HP 6735en pre-installed with vista (hp recovery partition) which I upgraded to windows 7. I have some compatibility issues so i would like to return to factory vista setup but have been reading that once you upgrade you cannot go back. My HP recovery manager only allows me to restore to a previous point and f11 does nothing. I have not created recovery disks before upgrading (yes slap me with the stupid stick) so is there any way to factory restore it since that's the only way I will be sure all my hardware and software will work perfectly again.
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Sep 8, 2011
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Jan 24, 2012
my old vista laptop died but i had been doing regular backups via my wireless network (using the windows backup/restore function..) to another pc in my loft.now my NEW laptop is win 7 home premium 64bit edition.My problem is i cant restore my files from the vista backups to the new win 7 laptop.the Windows 7 laptop can see the remote machine and all the directory structure and can see the "backup sets" but when i click on the set all i get back is "no backups found) and yet all the zip files and the catalogs ARE in the remote location.
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