Download: Windows Vista x64 Recovery Disc

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1. lol thanks for this. i never got a disk from the stupid people i bought the comp from. and somehow it doesn’t show somethin or whatever. but ty this should help me out 😀

2. guys can this work on my vista 32bit
   i reformat my desktop and now it says
   “Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key

   anyone know how to fix this?

   appriciate

3. Hi there, I have a Sony Vaio, which has been broken for over 2 months. I downloaded this torrent using BitTorrent, which worked fine. I then burned the file onto a CD and loaded it onto my computer. The screen came up (hallelujah!) and it then asked me to choose a system, which I chose as Windows Vista, but then it came to a screen saying ‘Startup Repair’, which I thought was fine, but then it read ‘This may take over an hour to complete’. Is this normal and how long approx. will it take?

4. I downloaded the Windows Vista Recovery Disc and it failed to work.
   The laptop that needs repairs is a Toshiba Satelite Pro.
   Error msg: 0xc00000e9
   The CD I created with the recovery disc could not load up so it shows a cursor for a while and then it returns to the error page. I burnt the CD as an *.iso file and got the laptop to boot from CD by changing the BIOS settings

   Help needed.

   Thanks

5. my laptop means alot to me and i depend on it for almost anytihng. however, i did the system restore and it said restore successfully but when it restarted it just went back to the windows vista menu and when i took the cd out that same annoying message BOOTMGR COMPRESSED POPPED what am i suppose to do now??

6. HEY AGAIN I FOUND OUT WHAT I THIKN THE PROBOLEM IS. WHEN I GO TO SYSTEM RESTORE THERE ARE 3 BOXES. THE 1ST IS:

   DISK STATUS

   [ ] (C:) (SYSTEM) READY TO RESTORE

   [ ] PQSERVICE (E:) THE DISK IS NOT IN THE SELECTED RESTORE POINT

   [ ] BOOT (X:) THE DISK IS NOT IN THE SELECTED RESTORE POINT

   THE FIRST BOX, C SYSTEM HAS A CHECK IN IT BUT THE OTHER 2 BOXES BELOW IT DONT AND IT WONT ALLOW ME TO PUT 1. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THOSE 2 BOXES MEAN BUT IM PRETTY SURE THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH WHY I CANT FIX MY COMPUTER BECAUSE THE C SYSTEM SAYS ITS READY TO RESTORE BUT THE OTHER 2 ARE NOT. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW CAN I FIX THIS PROBLEM??

7. After going through ALL the rig-a-ma-role about this disk for over a month now, I use my HP windows vista $850.00 laptop as a flat surface for my drink as I watch TV at night. Sometimes, bucking the aMErican System of money and power and lies and admitting that one has been screwed is better for the soul.

   I trust NO ONE who makes money in the Computer racket to be of any real help. They are out to sell computers and with luck to “fix” the same computers. This is the very reason I no longer buy at BestBuy— their “ComputerGeeks” set up my computer and gave me their own “restore” disk which did the very destruction! And that was also the very last HP or Canon that I will ever purchase too. The first time was rape, a second time by the same company just ain’t gonna happen.

8. i cant save it

9. The issue with not having the Install.wim file is that you are trying to “install” rather than “repair”. This is a repair disc and does not contain the install files. You need to select the repair option when you get to the screen with the big Install button on it.

10. Finally i found some good recovery discs, thanks, you saved my life!
    Kisses,
    Andressa

11. Mr. Dave,

    My Acer 2920z laptop couldn’t boot because of this problem: “Windows failed to load because a critical system driver is missing, or corrupt.”

    The file’s directory is “\Windows\System32\Drivers\foxxbg.sys

    Status: 0xc0000225

    I tried your recovery disc (x32) a lot of times. It says the problem was fixed but when I reboot, the same problem appears.

    I Googled what “foxxbg.sys” is but I got no information. Does this file even exist, or a virus is causing my system to look for an unreal file?

    Thank you in advance. 🙂

12. can you email me an physical address so I can send a check or moey order to help out? thanks in advance ds

13. Thank you so much, this disc worked perfectly! Sending donation via Paypal now. Keep up the excellent work. Cheers

14. Please I do own a satellite A305 Toshiba (window vista home premium-64). Recently, it started acting weird. When I put it on, it makes a funny sound and would not boot to windows. But once I start my system and insert the f12 it takes me to where I can boot my system with HDD
    Further, while inside Microsoft word or typing on social sites, the cursor delete all what I have written by moving backwards all by itself.
    I have observed this error message- 0x80070057
    Please can the recovery disk help resolve this problem?
    Thank you
    Kelvin

15. Hi, when i click on the download link it just takes me to a page with a bunch of mumbo jumbo. please help!

    thank you

16. Has anyone go another link for “Windows Vista Recovery Disc 32-Bit (x86) Edition” the tracker is not connecting for me.

17. We’re in the process of moving to a new server. The tracker will be down for a few hours!

18. The tracker is back up and running now. We don’t foresee more downtime in the future, God willing. We’ve now moved to a much bigger and better server farm, everything should be much smoother from here-on out 🙂

19. It works like charm! Great creation

20. Thx this helped me sooooo much!!!!!!!! i Hade the dreded “BOOTMGR is missing” message and after alot of searching found you thx allot. Just for refrence i think it was coused after me installing windows 7 on hard disk portion with windows vista on an other organily i think it got a bit corupted so thx you saved my life

    RW

21. You can use bitlet.org to download torrent in web client, without installing any torrent desktop apps.

22. My HP PC provided me with a way to create recovery disks which I did soon after I bought my PC. So what will the Neosmart disks buy me? (Anyhow, I read that a recovery disk is specific to a PC since it contains the required drivers for it). Is there any way to get hold of M$’s “RecEnv.exe” program which is on the Vista install DVD and creates a recovery environment?
    Thanks,
    Dan

23. INSTALL.WIM issue Still no resolution to this?

24. I am trying to help a friend (cancer patient with no money) fix her hp. Has had for a few years. Has the BSOD error c1f5. I have tried everyone of the f8 options, system recovery, repair, and even tried to download the 32 and the 64 with no sucess on anything it just keeps trying to go straight to windows loading the the BSOD. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

25. notebook starts to bootup, then I get an windows error recovery window.
    in the window I can select start windows normal, or launch startup repair.
    seems like ti is looping back to the windows error recovery window.

26. @JB. Install.wim is for the Windows installation. There isn’t an “issue” here, you just need to click the repair option instead of install. Asking for install.wim is essentially asking for a full-fledged installation CD, which obviously can’t be freely distributed.

27. I was able to download torrent filer, but uTorrent just keeps saying “DHT:Waiting to log in”, any idea what it is talking about?

28. Didn’t work for me. I used it for error message [c:\windows/system32/drivers/lsi_fc.sys is corrupt] on Windows Vista 64-bit Home Premium.

    any suggestions anyone please

29. THANK YOU!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you…

    I followed the instructions (ahem…) and it worked perfectly.

30. Thanks guys, worked a charm on my G60 HP… only issue is my product key has partly worn off under the laptop,now it’s just a guessing game i have to deal with!

31. says bootmgr is missing

32. Hello, Wanted to say that I downloaded the torrent file a couple of weeks ago and installed it on a CD in order to gain access to my daughter’s friend’s computer. Whole operation worked like a charm. Thanks! By the same token I used the same file to install onto another CD and get an error message saying that it is missing a file, something .wim I think. It is of no consequence as I will just assume that I didn’t do this one correctly and do it again. As a side note I saw some posts about The Geeks charging for a recovery disk. FYI HP charges $8 US for recovery disks. Not a bad investment. Thanks again!

33. Kagnew: Follow the instructions at http://j.mp/BcdRepair

    Don’t click “Install Now,” press “Repair my PC” in the bottom-left corner of the same dialog.

34. Hello again and thanks for the input. And by this time I have resolved my problem. I used the download a second time and it worked. I had tried using a Lenova Vista disk but my friends Toshiba would not see it as such but when I put it into an HP or back into the Lenova machine it was recognized. That is the reason I used the ISO method. In any case, I appreciate all the help. Your doing a great job with this site in helping those of us who don’t have access to other information.

    HAGD
    Kagnew

35. This worked for me. Thanks for the very precise instructions and for providing the links to all the tools required.

36. did this working fine on Vista Ultimate sp1 32bit?

37. @rasyid: yes.

38. Followed the instructions and my PC is back up and running.

    Thank You!

39. My laptop (Acer Aspire 4315) would was booting up to a black screen with a moveable cursor error, but would not finish loading Windows Vista. I followed all the instructions EXACTLY, then ran a restore from the recovery disk and I was back up and running in no time. I’m so happy! Thanks!!

40. Can anyone show us what the disk is supposed to look like after burning?

    I have three items at the root level of the disk I created:

    boot (folder — contains 3.27M total)
    sources (folder — 144 MB total)
    bootmgr (file, appears to have no type, 325 KB)

    This is what I got using the download link for the 64-bit version of Vista, and I am running Vista Home Premium.

    After changing the boot order, nothing different happens when I start the computer.

41. I have an acer 5920- Vista won’t start at all on my laptop after installing update.

    I’ve made the CD, and changed BIOS to boot from CD/DVD first.

    I get a screen that says “Press any key to boot from CD”, so I do.

    I then get a screen that says “Windows is loading files…”, with a white progress bar. This bar fills up and then I get to the Microsoft Windows screen with the green loading bars.

    From there I get a blue screen saying “Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer”, etc. Any tips as to where I go from here?

42. I would be checking hardware and the first thing I would check is that my coolong fans, particularly CPU fan) are working.

43. ” D:\Sources\Install.wim ”
    now this pops up and it lets me look threw the systems folders but i do not know where to find it. anybody out there know?

44. I love you. I honestly love you. The world is a better place because of you. Thank you!

45. I concur with Don Lane I love you!!! Thank you so much!! I thought I had lost everything and now thanks to you wonderful, wonderful peeps, EVERYTHING is restored, It all worked as said. Mmmwwwaaaahhhhhh.

46. Help! restart computer and put the recovery disc ! after can do what? why nothing happen? help~……………………..

    why my recovery disc only get two folder ? It that work??

47. Thank you very much. My SystemMax PC just kept rebooting over and over, never getting to the Windows login. The restore disk I had offered to reinstall Windows with a fresh copy, but had no repair option! It took two tries, but your recovery disk worked.
    Thanks again!

48. Was getting:

    “File: \Boot\BCD
    Status 0xc000000f

    An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.”

    Following the Vista Security 2011 fake antivirus program (this people could probably cure cancer if they would devote their time to good)…not sure if it was the program or me cleaning up something I shouldn’t have. Anyway below is what I did so far:

    Downloaded Vista torrent file and uTorrent app as suggested
    Used uTorrent app to download ISO file
    Downloaded ImgBurn app to burn ISO file to DVD
    Hit F8 when starting computer to get list, chose to boot from DVD
    It started the “Install” process, I hit an option to Repair instead
    It gave me a message that it found errors on startup settings and did I want to repair, I did of course and rebooted.
    Computer came up fine
    Still could not see any files/folders or programs. Went to my user folder, clicked Organize, Folder and Search Options, View tab, Selected “Show hidden files and folders”

    My folders are transparent right now but I’m alot farther than I was! Will work on that next. Thanks neosmart for your help! Much appreciation!

49. Hello guys, thank you so much for doing this. i followed this step by step and I got everything to burn to the disc and it works great. The only thing is that in order to get your 25 character key so that you can confirm this that you have the operating system. Don’t you have to right click on “My Computer” and go to that key that is on the bottom? If you can get back to me that would be great thanks!

50. Hilda,
    As I understand the Recovery Disk it assumes you are recovering an already installed version if Windows. This being the case the key the recovery program is asking for is the one that came with the original installation set or on the label pasted somewhere on your machine.

    Give ut another try and good luck!