Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

If you’re like most PC users, you probably got Windows 7 with a new PC or laptop. And if you’re like 99% of the population, you get your new machines from one of the major manufacturers. Dell, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo; who all have one thing in common: they don’t give you a real Windows 7 installation disc with your purchase. Instead, they bundle what they call a “recovery disc” (that’s if you’re lucky – otherwise you’ll have a recovery partition instead) with your machine and leave it at that.

It doesn’t matter that you just paid a thousand dollars for a machine that comes with a valid Windows 7 license – your computer manufacturer just don’t want to spend the money (or perhaps take on the responsibility) of giving you a Windows 7 installation DVD to accompany your expensive purchase.

The problem is, with Windows 7, the installation media serves more than one purpose. It’s not just a way to get Windows installed, it’s also the only way of recovering a borked installation. The Windows 7 DVD has a complete “recovery center” that provides you with the option of recovering your system via automated recovery (searches for problems and attempts to fix them automatically), rolling-back to a system restore point, recovering a full PC backup, or accessing a command-line recovery console for advanced recovery purposes.

NeoSmart Technologies is hosting a copy of a Windows 7 Recovery Disc for your convenience. It’s a ~150 MiB download ready to burned directly to a CD or DVD. It contains an antivirus scanner, access to system restore, Windows backup, memory diagnostics, and command-line tools for advanced repair procedures. Please note that this download is no longer free, due to licensing restrictions imposed upon us.

What it does: The Windows 7 Recovery Disc can be used to access a system recovery menu, giving you options of using an antivirus, System Restore, Complete PC Backup, automated system repair, and a command-line prompt for manual advanced recovery.

What it doesn’t do: You cannot use the Windows 7 Recovery Disc to re-install Windows – it only fixes (not replaces!) Windows.

Why you need it: If you bought your PC from a major retailer, you didn’t get this CD with your hefty purchase.

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Windows Vista Recovery Discs (x86/x64)

Windows 7 Recovery Discs (x86/x64)

Instructions

Click the link above then select the edition you’d like to download.
Select a payment method and enter details.
Download the link displayed onscreen and sent to your email.
Burn the .iso file that was downloaded to a CD using these instructions.
When you want to use the recovery center, put the CD in your drive and boot from it. This is usually done by pressing F8 at startup, or changing the boot drive order in the BIOS.

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436 thoughts on “Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs”

Marten on February 18, 2011 at 3:24 pm said:

Awesome !! thx for this guys!
Good work!
william on February 21, 2011 at 12:09 am said:

Windows 7 Recovery Disc 64-Bit (x64) Edition torrent is no longer being seeded by anyone. So if anyone still has his downloaded torrent version PLEASE SEED IT !
sunh on February 21, 2011 at 5:15 am said:

Wow, THanks! I downloaded ubuntu 10.10 on an external drive, but the process somehow messed up my computer so I couldn’t boot my Windows or the Ubuntu. I used directions from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708 and solved the problem. Thanks again!
Namdel on February 22, 2011 at 12:20 pm said:

I have Sony Vaio P39, it has no CD/DVD, only USB ports. Therefore I can not use advise on boot from CD. Message I have is “bootmgr is compressed, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”. Connecting external CD does not help. Any suggestions?
James M Singleton on February 22, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:

I have used the Startup Repair and it works.
israel on February 23, 2011 at 3:24 am said:

tnx!!
allen james garbisch on February 27, 2011 at 2:15 am said:

ok i used the windows 7 recovery disk that came with my ASUS G60Vx laptop it recovered windows but it has a problem the service pack it is showing is (windows 7 service pack 0) i sanr run it for maybe about a minute or two then it pops up a blue screen of death then reboots it keeps doing this my question @ Mahmoud Al-Qudsi is will this disk fix the problem or do i need to find a windows 7 install disk install windows 7 using the wni 7 key on laptop so it has sp1 and use my asus drivers disk to install all the drivers that are needed to run all parts of the computer or is it not going to work and i this disk will fix the problem i dont have recovery partition as i had a nasty virus and only way to rid my self of it was to wipe hard drive with a high grade hard drive reformater the computer is still under warranty but ASUS will not stand behind the warranty because i reformated the hard drive so they wont give me files needed will this disk fix missing files?
allen james garbisch on February 27, 2011 at 2:16 am said:

ok i used the windows 7 recovery disk that came with my ASUS G60Vx laptop it recovered windows but it has a problem the service pack it is showing is (windows 7 service pack 0) i can run it for maybe about a minute or two then it pops up a blue screen of death then reboots it keeps doing this my question @ Mahmoud Al-Qudsi is will this disk fix the problem or do i need to find a windows 7 install disk install windows 7 using the wni 7 key on laptop so it has sp1 and use my asus drivers disk to install all the drivers that are needed to run all parts of the computer or is it not going to work and i this disk will fix the problem i dont have recovery partition as i had a nasty virus and only way to rid my self of it was to wipe hard drive with a high grade hard drive reformater the computer is still under warranty but ASUS will not stand behind the warranty because i reformated the hard drive so they wont give me files needed will this disk fix missing files?
Millzee60 on February 27, 2011 at 12:41 pm said:

Thx, very helpful
Harini on February 28, 2011 at 12:43 pm said:

Thank you so much! My laptop is back on track.
pau16 on March 2, 2011 at 11:52 am said:

i recently installed ubuntu 10.10 in my fujitsu laptop but theres something wrong with grub and it made me unable to access my windows 7. some forums told me to use this but when i boot this from am external drive it doesnt work. i only got a flashing cursor at the top left of the screen. help plizzzz!! what should i do?? please help me! thanks!
Jon John on March 8, 2011 at 2:13 pm said:

Thank you so much for this.
you have saved me from formatting my machine.
Karel on March 8, 2011 at 3:41 pm said:

Hello,
I want to thank you for everything. I downloaded and followed your advice,
I’m happy because it succeeded. My machine reboots again after the
restoration. Thank you very much, Karel from Kinshasa DRC
Webslinger on March 10, 2011 at 5:10 pm said:

OMG! I have been looking at a “Insert Bootable disk” screen for almost 2 weeks. I am still waiting on restore disks from Gateway.
Worked perfectly, You Rock!
Krish on March 12, 2011 at 8:43 pm said:

Thank you for this discussion…

I have similar problem(Windows 7 bootup failed with unable to load win32load.exe).. Windows Memory manangement test has no errors but still my pc is not booting up.

I downloaded the torrent files and copied USB but still no change. How can we access Command command when system itself not started?

BootRec /Fixboot
BootRec /FixMbr
BootRec /RebuildBCD
Shashank Brahmavar on March 13, 2011 at 6:34 am said:

hi i just wanna know
if i have the bootmgr missing on my new hp dv7 select edition (extremely fast)
can i fix it with this
and if i can can i recover my files! very eager to kepp my files!!!!!
and also if we can do that exactly where do i click!
Dan Roberts on March 14, 2011 at 11:48 pm said:

Hey,

You have no idea how much this has SAVED MY LIFE. I actually received my laptop today (Dell Inspiron N5010) and I decided to install Ubuntu on it. Unfortunately I didn’t want Ubuntu in the end and followed a guide on how to delete it from my system – but I didn’t know it deleted the boot loader.

AFTER 5 HOURS OF BROWSING, I came across this website, and within 2 minutes, everything got fixed! Back to normal, happy days.
Ellen on March 18, 2011 at 10:51 am said:

Hi,

I wanna thank you so much for this. The recovery disc for windows vista 64 bit have saved my computer several times! I have bought a new computer from Dell, so now i need to make a new windows 7 disc. This tool is a “must have”!
Kartikeya on March 19, 2011 at 10:15 am said:

Thanks neosmart technologies i had some resolution problems with my pc and it worked only in safe mode making it impossible for me to play hd games this is a must have tool!
Ord on March 21, 2011 at 1:21 pm said:

Hi,

My Inspiron 15R haven’t worked correctly after I deleted some keys in registry :(.
I followed this instruction to restore to the previous point but I only saw 1 restore point that I didn’t expect (the point is after my foolish deleting action). How can I restore to sooner time? Please help me :(. Thanks in advance.
mierul on March 22, 2011 at 2:51 am said:

in my case is..when i turn on my laptop gonna black screen..just showing some words..”BOOTGMR is compressed” pleased i need someone can tell me how to solve in this problems..
Cannon on March 23, 2011 at 7:12 am said:

Can I use a USB to do this? Im out of CD-R’s.
roger on March 24, 2011 at 11:20 pm said:

to all the people who expected to download an .iso file and have a.rar file instead, there´s no need to unzip , just use imgburn 2.5.5.0 and with the option ” write image file to disc ” browse to the .rar file you just downloaded and is going to recognise it as a image file.That´s all, you got a working recovery disc for W7.Bye.
glenn24rave on March 25, 2011 at 7:36 am said:

Hey mate, this works for me like a charm.. I’ve spend 3 hours to try the startup repair but you’ve save my ass with this awesome software. Love you man.. Thanks alot.
Ulfat Rasool on March 26, 2011 at 8:31 am said:

Wow……….amazingly it works,,,,,,,,,i recovered my window 7 (Bootmgr missing press ctr+alt+del) by using only this software.
Thanks a lot
Cesar Hernandez on March 31, 2011 at 12:40 pm said:

Holly cow! this cd worked amazingly, i was googling for about 2 days how to fix my mbr! then this cd came along! 2 minutes later i had my OS working!
DC on April 1, 2011 at 11:25 am said:

Thanks so much for hosting these disks!!!
The best way to fix any Windows 7 problem is to wipe it off your hard drive and install Windows XP 64bit. LOL Unfortunately, my friend wants to keep it, so once again thanks for the recovery disks!!!!
des on April 9, 2011 at 2:43 am said:

You are the main man!! Thankyou
sonylaptopfrank on April 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm said:

hello,

i cannot start my windows 7 in safe more or use recovery function, what can i do ?

problem happened after windows 7 update, then after restart windows defender asked me to restart again, and then blue screen or auto restart forever.

i would like to disable or uninstall windows defender as i can access the command prompt but i can’t find how to do ?

And do you know how to uninstall windows latest update with command prompt ?

Thanks for help.
Pål on April 19, 2011 at 12:30 pm said:

my windows is atorrent and gets BOOTMGR is mssing does this help me ?? please answer, that would make me happy !!
Pål on April 20, 2011 at 12:35 pm said:

It worked !!

Thanks man, you have saved million of lifes !! :D
GfW on April 22, 2011 at 8:56 pm said:

If you are using Opera 11 (and maybe some previous versions) you don’t need a torrent downloaded because it has one built in. Works great too.
Christopher on April 23, 2011 at 8:58 pm said:

Uhmm I got a laptop and i cant put a cd in my laptop , but i got a virtual cd programe Can i do it white that ?
JAMDAWN on April 25, 2011 at 10:11 pm said:

AS I WAS BURNING THE VISTA RECOVERY DISK FOR A FRIEND, I GOT A LITTLE AHEAD OF MYSELF AND ACTUALLY SELECTED “OPEN” INSTEAD OF “SAVE”.
ONLY BECAUSE MY COMPUTER IS NOW, AND HAS BEEN EVER SINCE I REBOOTED AFTER THAT HAPPENED, ACTING STUPID. 1) the “wireless enable/disable” window does not fully appear. 2) my appearance of windows has reverted to “classic theme” etc.
I THOUGHT IT COULD BE CUZ VISTA WAS “OPENED” ON IT AND SO I’VE TRIED “OPENING” 7 BUT “NOT ENOUGH SPACE” ~~*any suggestions on this please help im going nuts having to be CONNECTED to something
Erie88 on April 26, 2011 at 5:25 pm said:

Thanks alot… you saved my life. My HP laptop was bundled with Vista but i upgraded to 7. The problem is I have Vista Recovery Disc but my internal DVD player already not working anymore. So i used external DVD player but sometimes it doesn’t work..
michele on May 7, 2011 at 9:20 pm said:

I have windows 7 already installed and im just trying to figure out how to burn it onto a CD . Please help :)
Nick Brown on May 9, 2011 at 10:19 pm said:

It worked! The torrent is a ISO file and you’ll need a disk burning software to build a disk from an ISO file. I used BurnAware.
I placed the disk in my DVD drive and rebooted.
Upon start-up the bios will hang for a short time asking if you want to boot from the CD DVD. Select this.

I backed up to a Blu-Ray disk and had this in the BD drive.
When repair asked for permission to rebuild select the BD disk drive and the repair disk software found the backup file.

I was more than happy to donate, Thanks Much!
Elliott Osborne on May 20, 2011 at 9:31 pm said:

FYI for anyone attempting this, boot from your CD / DVD ROM after burning, you may think it is not going to start, it takes several minutes to load through the recovery process. It worked and got my system booted up, and without needing to reformat or lose any data! It’s amazing!!

THANKS SO MUCH IT WORKED!
bibich on May 21, 2011 at 6:52 pm said:

merci bcp
zarizara on May 26, 2011 at 10:35 pm said:

I tried to recover my laptobby using that recovery discs. after disc n 1 and 2 was done system asked for recovery n 3, when i put cd, 3 there says important files couldn’ br found. Could you tell me please what was problem thre and what i should do?
godslav3 on June 5, 2011 at 6:41 pm said:

my laptop does not have any optical driver with it. should i need a different procedure? thanks in advance.
Sami on June 8, 2011 at 12:06 pm said:

Thanks very much, it’s really a valuable help kit.
Kurosh on June 10, 2011 at 11:29 pm said:

Big Thank You!! I screwed up my installation by accidentally making a data disk active.. and I couldnt boot. My install disc couldnt repair it automatically, so tried tons of things like bootrec this and that, diskpart this and that, even tried with ubcd but just couldnt get it right. Then I popped THIS in and in one automatic repair iteration it solved the problem. Awesome.

I would like to make a donation if you’re accepting them. Your paypal donation links are inactive.
Jamie on June 20, 2011 at 10:12 am said:

Hi – is the Windows 7 download no longer available?
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi on June 20, 2011 at 6:50 pm said:

It’s been temporarily withdrawn while we negotiate licensing issues with Microsoft.
bob on June 22, 2011 at 1:41 am said:

please please please i need a copy of recovery disk for windows 7 pro 32-bit .. i cant boot my new dell machine after messing up the bootloader when trying to put on an xp partition .. is there other tool i can use or when will this one be available again? please any help would be so appreciated
zaheer on June 24, 2011 at 10:03 am said:

please help me to remove the bios passward on acer laptop
jsmoothJoe on June 25, 2011 at 12:54 am said:

Hi I have Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit & when i compressed a bunch of files is saying “ACVMJ is compressed Press ctrl+alt+del to restart”….but nothing comes up it’s on a loop basically saying to cntrl alt del to restart Any way to correct this I don’t mind if all files are loss i just need access & my pc back 2 start from scratch all over again any input would help Thanks in advance ….;-(
lolo on June 26, 2011 at 9:50 am said:

were can i download the windows 7system recovery discs 32 bits plz
Guest on June 29, 2011 at 5:41 pm said:

Where is the told w7 recovery disk? Here I can’t see it…

Why I should use the Vista disk?
@Zaheer on June 30, 2011 at 10:21 am said:

It says do not ask for help down here.
harry on June 30, 2011 at 12:35 pm said:

my system shows
bootmgr missing
Press ctrl+alt+del to resart
even i cant log in advanced boot option ,I press f8 but does,t appear anything, I also dont have repair DVD/installlation DVD for window 7.
CAn anyone please help me to shortout
Patsy on July 3, 2011 at 3:17 am said:

I am having the problem the first person was having it keeps blue screening with the same error message, would the recovery disk be of any use??? I backed up my files already on another source.
alok on July 3, 2011 at 10:57 am said:

Thnks
atok on July 5, 2011 at 8:13 pm said:

I used paragon backup 10 free version to create all win bootable cd and also i have build the win7 bootable thumdrive ! amazing isn’t it ?. Backup win7 system including MBR and save to any storage such as internal harddisk, thumbdrive, or any other external storage. We can restore our backup system from windows or from bootable cd/thumdrive. Thanks to paragon. So try it yourself. Good luck.
narmo on July 5, 2011 at 9:56 pm said:

Is there any information on when you will have the links back up? And is there any alternate links at all? Does Microsoft have this available, or do we have to wait until they get their heads out of their asses?

Really, WHAT copyright clarification!? Arrg! Just when I needed it the most too!!
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi on July 6, 2011 at 12:14 am said:

narmo, we are working on it. Microsoft asked us to take down the links while we work out a licensing agreement with them on behalf of our users. We hope to have good news shortly.
charles on July 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm said:

why i can’t got it?
Armaan on July 8, 2011 at 2:07 am said:

Screw Microsoft. They make it so difficult to perform what should be easy tasks, and then prevent websites like this one from helping people where Microsoft has failed.
ugh... on July 9, 2011 at 3:13 pm said:

its for obvious reasons, microsoft wants “power” and “authority”, also known as “dominance”, fucking selfish bitches, go die in a fucking hole…
Jayasankar on July 13, 2011 at 9:10 pm said:

I bought a G 450 Laptop from US and warrenty has expired. today i pressed some key by mistake and Lenovo suddedly did not work and failed to start . cause it says may be software or harware change to fix insert your WINDOWS installation disc and restart your computer, which i do not have. I hve only Lenovo Recovery CD. when inserted it is showing no signs.

Now how to find out the Product. I went over the tool free no and spoke to service centre and they are asking to contact tool free no 18004252666. now I do not have the Windows 7 CD. i called service station they have asked me to check the warrently perooid and register. now how to go about.

I have only LENOVO RECOVERY DVD. i tried with that also but failed.

Can some onehelp me to recover my laptop. i am in chennai
bricks on July 14, 2011 at 3:30 am said:

help , is this different from the recovery disk you can make by clicking start=program=maintenance=create system repair disk……….?
qawarasa on July 15, 2011 at 7:30 am said:

hei where download link?????
Kenyu on July 16, 2011 at 5:37 am said:

Why the Microsoft always have COPYRIGHT and LICENSE issue…arghh..this is just the system repair discs and not the windows installation discs
ken on July 17, 2011 at 10:18 am said:

thank
ManTy on July 18, 2011 at 9:44 am said:

Is that someone already download the file, please upload it!
John on July 18, 2011 at 10:39 am said:

Is that possible for me to get back all the data, which I just formatted my C: drive?
If so, how to do it? I have tried using windows 7 repair disk, it shows “No OS was detected from your drive”. Please help !!! Thanks~
Niddly on July 22, 2011 at 6:54 am said:

Can you please let us know when the Windows 7 is available again?
No one will provide a recovery disk for me! (computer pre-installed, but they won’t supply an actual disk).
Niddly on July 22, 2011 at 6:55 am said:

Thanks for your help.
Kathy on July 25, 2011 at 7:06 am said:

This is definitely useful to know. My laptop nearly crashed and all I was doing was just installing and meddling with the printer settings. The OS is just so unstable at times, I think I better download this first just in case.
EXT on July 26, 2011 at 9:48 am said:

Where is the New Link for windows 7? please respond Thankz…
vincebobmoreau on August 3, 2011 at 2:16 pm said:

And by licensing agreement they mean draw this out so that everyone will eventually forget about it.
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi on August 3, 2011 at 6:07 pm said:

We’re actually still in contact with Microsoft and are perhaps a week or two away from sealing this.
Fawad on August 4, 2011 at 3:33 pm said:

Hey guys can any one tell me from where to download this cuse i cant see a download link in there , or send me the link to where from you downloaded it , i will be very thankful ,thanks in advance . HELp
mandeep on August 10, 2011 at 4:47 pm said:

hi why can’t i see the download link

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