Windows Vista Recovery Disk and Repair Disc Download

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1. Hi, just another quick thank you. This recovery disk has meant that I have been able to save all my father in laws 80th party photo’s!
   We installed a new keyboard and wireless mouse (Kensington!!) which after installing the accompaning software rendered both mouse and keyboard (and any replacements plugged in!) unuseable – even in safe mode!!! Thank you so much for easy to use software that does what it says on the tin!

2. Mike, x86 is for use with 32 bit operating systems.

3. Thanks a million for the file. I thought my computer was screwed for good but not anymore. For those who say it doesn’t work: WRONG! It does and works perfect.

   Thanks again!

4. I’ve tried using this and it goes through the “Windows is Loading Files” screen and into the actual green windows loading bar, but after that it just sits at a black screen. I let it sit for roughly 20 minutes and it doesn’t change. Can anyone let me know why it isn’t working for me?

5. I get

   windows setup [ems enabled]

   and was afraid to go any further.

   Why didn’t I get Vista?

6. Hey I want to remove Vista from my laptop coz its really slow, but i wasnt given any original Vista DVD so im affraid to format my drive because i paid for it. If I later decide to install Vista again will be the Recovery CD enough to install it all again?? Or what shall I do? Ive tried to burn the recovery disk in the recovery manager inside vista but it just wont work…thanks

7. hahaha. It’s kind of funny. I posted my first comment and right after I closed the window my friend came up and told me that the disk was working. Thank you so much for making these available. : ) I am posting this from my good old pooter in my room and not the slow nasty one up stairs.

   @Dusan This recovery disk can only be used to fix an already installed version of Vista. If you reformat your hard drive then you’ll need to buy windows vista to reinstall it. If you contact the people who made your PC you should be able to con them into giving vista to you for a little bit cheaper.

8. Dude, you saved my a$$ tonight! I tried to install XP to a USB flash stick using my brand new HP Laptop running Vista x64 Home Premium. They didn’t give me Vista Home Premium DVD or recovery/repair discs. I only had my 3 DVD initial install system recovery discs and they didn’t allow me to repair boot problems.

   My system wouldn’t boot because somehow XP overwrote the boot info, even though i directed it to the usb drive. HP laptop says it won’t boot and i see why. I tried a 32bit version of Vista Ultimate to boot and repair, but it wouldn’t work cause it said it was incompatible. Probably because it was 32bit not 64bit.

   I found your disk for x64 Vista recovery/repair disc and had it downloaded and burned in 10mins and in another 5, I had my system booting back up again.

   Again, thank you so much.

   It should be illegal to sell a computer with just a COA and backup partition but not OS CD.

   Andrew M.

9. i need a help guys,
   initially my lenovo came with a preloaded windows vist home basic, it had no option to create recovery discs and it had a hidden partition to do the reinstall work, but i tried other os and now the hidden partition is not there so how can i do the recovery in the future will lenovo people provide me a recovery dvd on request?

10. Hai guys, I’ve tried several times to burn this image onto a DVD-RW disk with the option IMAGE BURNING WIZARD from ALCOHOL 120% and even using the free IMGBRN but still cannot get the disk to boot.

    Sometimes the disk does not have any contents, and other times it has the following:

    bootmgr (file)
    boot (dir) -> bcd, boot.sdi, bootfix
    sources (dir) -> boot.wim

    Does this seem about correct? And if so, why isn’t it booting at startup?

    Thanks in advance.

11. The CD with those files on it is correct. But your BIOS needs to be configured to boot from the CD drive first, then the local hard disk.

12. Answer to Gardy:
    The vista recovery disc once the image is burned will have two folders and one file showing in win explorer.
    The one file showing is bootmgr 325 MB.
    The first folder is: boot and it has three files,

    bcd 256 KB,

    boot.sdi 3.02 MB and the third file is

    bootfix.bin 1.00 KB

    The second older is Sources. It has only one file- boot.wim 116 MB

    And there you have it.

13. I have a Toshiba Qosmio that crashed on me this afternoon. I made the Cd and let the laptop boot from it.

    I was lucky to reach to the green page. Once I selected the repair your computer option, then when I press next the following appears:

    The version System Recovery option is not compatible… bla bla bla
    I tried with both x64 and x86 but neither works ( my qosmio has Vista Ultamite 32 bit )

    please help! what should I do now ???

14. […]if you haven’t hit the button to continue the installation in the partitioning and formating dialog , then you won’t see the mentioned error message with the GPT partition style problem! […]

15. hi¡¡¡
    i want on my computer but i can´t
    i need the recuperation disc windows vista
    if somebody can say to me please like or of I can obtain where it? please is most important, but with himself I lose my work

16. Hey, guys!
    I think it’s great that you’re offering these recovery disks, but unlike everyone else I need the x86 version. I’m getting no seeds at aaaaall. I have a few other torrents going with no problems.
    Seed me, please? 🙂

17. Guru, I’m betting that John, and the others problem revolves around them not burning the disc as an ISO. I check this out myself on a variety of machine, including the ones mentioned and all worked without a hitch. So that’s making me think it’s how they burned the disc itself. Both Nero Burning ROM, and Roxio have a setting so the disc(s) can be burned in ISO mode.

18. I burned the 64 edition but when i boot it says the install file doesnt exist

19. Do you have the 32 bit version of the .iso file? The 64 is incompatible for my system.
    Thank you.

20. Yup, same thing here. Burned with Nero – didn’t work. Burned with ImgBurn – worked great!

    The only problem is the program didn’t help me any. I have a nasty virus and I’m trying to do a fresh install of Vista off of my OEM partition but I have no idea how to do it! Toshiba tech support couldn’t do it. They are (supposedly) sending disks but I’m tired of waiting for them. There must be a way of doing this or they wouldn’t have put the partition there in the first place!

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

21. I’m still not getting it. I burned the disc on PowerISO to DVD.

    I boot from the DVD, everything is fine until I get the error about install.wim – file does not exist. Code 0X800700002.

    I have a Sony Vaio VGN series that did not come with a recovery DVD.

    I was under the impression that the DVD I downloaded from this site was all I needed?

    I also can’t figure out how to do this, recommended by Scott:

    “If you don’t have the DVD, you can start from F8 or F11 when booting up & it should open your Recovery partition and give you a menu. That will restore your system if you can get to it.”

22. my dvd-rw burner does not work and they said its the driver but i cant find anyplace that has the driver to download…do you know how i can get it?

23. For Mike O. Mike, what I want you to do, is go to your Windows Vista Start Menu and look for something like uhhh “PC Help and Tools”, and see within that menu if it has something like Recovery Disk Creator, and Recovery Disk Manager. I’m not sure what Toshiba, or Sony call their recovery disk creation tools, but should be something there. IF you have to contact their support and find out what the tools are called within the “Start menu” is named so that you can make a set of disk. (Note: These disks will ONLY put the PC back in factory state, meaning that you’ll lose all setting that you had created and installed over the age of ownership of your PC.

24. Bryon, THAT’S not what I had meant. The regular software like Nero, or Roxio have a setting that allows you to burn the files supplied here in ISO mode. Look at the menu for your favorite CD/DVD creation software for the ISO method of creating a disk. YOU don’t need POWERISO. The problem with such titles are they are not recommended by computer makers, and so therefore won’t do the job. Also I believe in SP1 for Vista, it now includes a ISO setting for CD/DVD creation right from your Windows Vista desktop. Good Luck

25. I can’t even get the file for Vista Recovery to save itself to my CD. I already have a formatted disk, but all Windows want’s to do is reformatt my disk, which it failed to properly do. What a waste of time.

26. So, this does not work with x32 vista? 🙁 Where could I find a recovery disc working for x32 vista? I bought my laptop in 2007 and I got this “unable to boot…” just yesterday. Out of the blue…

27. I figured it out. I was trying to do an install, but this disc is strictly for recovery and repair.

    It’s still very useful to have.

    Fanis, my Vista is x32. I used the x86 recovery DVD and it booted up fine.

28. Tricky one for the guru’s out there.
    I have a laptop with a working vista OS however the children or wife have managed to delete/remove all the files from the recovery partition.
    As I can still boot up ok and the program files and OS on the C:\ appear to all work o.k. ……………….
    Is there any way I can use the recovery disk and what is still working to create a recovery disk that I can use for a clean install or reset to factory settings ?

    Any help or links would be greatly appreciated 🙂

29. THANX TONS people! 🙂 I just figured it out too. Vista’s x32 architecture is similar to x86. I will be downloading this soon and post the results tomorrow. Anyway, you’ve already been of great help!

30. XXXJASONXXX Your in luck. Since you use Vista, you can simply reverse what the wife and kiddies have done. click on start button, then click “Help and Support” then onto “Recover Factory Settings” Once you have started this process it will give you
    back the recovery partition. BUT before you do those steps. BACKUP ALL YOUR INFORMATIONS & SETTINGS!!! (This is a precaution.) Now once you’re into the restore feature, you have to think of the last most current date your system had all the setting, and files you had the way you liked it, then set that date so it will revert. the drive back to that condition.

    *Good Luck*

31. I am not getting any seeds at all for the x86 torrent. I have been waiting 3 days. Any help?

32. Thanks TEXAS_WOLF If only it were that simple 🙁
    The earliest date when in recovery is only a month or so ago and I’ve tried a reset to the earliest date and time but the recovery was only switched on for C: not the D: partition. So not only did the little darlings lose the recovery partition they must have switched off the recovery for the D: and pressed OK when it said all previous backups will be deleted. I guess the machine was powered down and rebooted and all the D: restore points were deleted.
    As I said I have a working Vista machine with no recovery partion data and no restore points either. (There are a handfull of restore points for C: and NONE for D: as the restore point for this drive was switched off)
    Hope this makes sense, any help would be much appreciated.

33. XXXJASONXXX then that only leaves you with one option. This is what you do, go to your garage, grab your sledge hammer, head to your children’s room, rip their playstation and/or Xbox from the television, and then throw it on the floor, collect up all their game disc and toss them on top, then take the sledge hammer and start SMASHING THEM TO PIECES! Next go into your bedroom, right to your wife’s jewelry box , collect up ALL of her jewelry then go down to the kitchen and toss it into the garbage disposal (note: to protect the garbage disposal’s blades add some corn or vegetable oil in there as well.) turn it on and after it’s ran, remove what’s left of her jewelry take it back up to the bedroom, put it back in the jewelry box, with a note stating this is how I felt when I seen my computer, and files DESTROYED. True Jason it will not bring back your files, but you’ll feel so much better. Now back to your problem, the only thing(s) you can do at this point is bring it back to original factory condition, (with the recovery discs) or ship it off to one of those forensic disc recovery services. YOU’RE HOSED!

34. Texas_Wolf ……………bit drastic
    Some good news, I’ve found the OS disk so at least I can do a clean install.
    Couldn’t find the application disks though 🙁
    I tried to create them using the software already on the machine………. but you guessed it, I get an error message saying no recovery files on D:\
    So I guess I’m stuck with no backup other than the OS disk.
    I have other software that I can use to save OEM drivers etc just frustrating as there were some MS applications that I have the genuine keys for (managed to find some paperwork too ! )
    Thanks for the help.
    To summarise, I have a working system with no recovery partion files, I have the original OS disk and some manuals & paperwork with keys for MS applications but no application recovery disks.
    A final question …. Is it possible to recreate the recovery partition or force the system into recreating the recovery partition without the application recovery disks, or, is there some software out there that could do this for me ?

    PS Not worth going down the professional recovery route ….way to expensive !!!!

35. XXXJASONXXX, Do you have those pamphlets/booklets with your CD-Keys on them still?
    Microsoft will send you free of charge the software(Their software. i.e. Office/Works, etc.) if you cannot get your software from your OEM
    BUT you will need the CD-Key, and serial# of the software, not a recovery disc containing the value added software, and if you can’t find the serial# for the Value added software that came on your PC, most Computer Manufacturer will give you
    that serial number. Also if your still under warranty your OEM will send you a new recovery partition on CD/DVD, less what you personality put on it. BUT this isn’t true with all OEMs. Call their support line first to check if they do this service.

36. Hello Computer Guru

    I should be able to burn the Vista ISO on a Windows XP computer correct an ISO is a ISO is it not, Because this is the only CD-RW/DVD-RW burner I have available too me.

    Thank You
    RichardM

37. i downloaded the x86 version but i only get a file that is called
    “bootmgr”
    and two folders:sources and boot.
    how can i use the disc to restore windows?

38. You need to boot from it.

39. Hello Again.

    As I asked in my first question can I make this ISO file on a computer the has Windows xp pro on it. Its the only computer that has a CD/RW DVD/RW burner available too me. So again if I make on this machine will it work.

    Thank you
    RichardM

40. hey guys just curious i prolly already fuxed myself over but i downgraded from vista home premium to xp and dont have disc or anything….when i did i had to resintall drivers for net and crap like that i even have some missing drivers…btw its an acer aspire 5920…is there any way at all i can recover my vista back anyway at all id sure appreciate the help

41. hey guys just curious i prolly already fuxed myself over but i downgraded from vista home premium to xp and dont have disc or anything….when i did i had to resintall drivers for net and crap like that i even have some missing drivers…btw its an acer aspire 5920…is there any way at all i can recover my vista back anyway at all id sure appreciate the help thank u

42. Attempt ask [quote]btw its an acer aspire 5920…is there any way at all i can recover my vista back anyway at all id sure appreciate the help thank u. [end-quote]

    Sure there is, you can buy a set if restore discs from your OEM -Acer- People, and I’m SURE The Computer Guru will agree with me, create a set of factory original discs when you first purchase your PC. ALL modern computers have either a CD Burner, or a DVD Burner built right in, with either Nero Burning ROM, or Roxio EZ-CD/DVD-Creator. MIGHT not get your system back the way it was after you worked those months getting it JUST how you wanted it, but at least it the original factory Restore Discs can put you back into the game.

43. Tony ask [quote] Well it should be illegal to sell a new PC without the original Windows DVD.[end-quote]

    Tony, this is a VERY simple matter to correct. Microsoft has procedures in place in this eventuality. All you need is your Windows Vista CD-Key, and the serial number from your Windows Vista Disk. WAIT!!!! You say you didn’t get a Windows Vista Disk..NOT even a RESTORE Disk only a partition. WELL Tony your in LUCK Contact Microsoft’s Support, and along with the CD-Key, and the SERIAL Number on that cute little stick on the outside cover of your Computer case is THAT SERIAL NUMBER you want/need. Now with those two pieces of information Microsoft will gladly send you a replacement WINDOWS VISTA disc. (Note: Microsoft know which of their OEMs/Vars got what, try to play a game and get software that your not entitled too and you WILL BE GOING TO PRISON!)

44. Thanks for this great utility. It really saved a hell lot of efforts. I have HP dv6767tx with vista installed on it. I tried to install Windows XP by formatting the Hard disk. But found out later that Xp is not supported on this laptop ( don’t know why, but thats what was told by HP guy). This Utility helped me to recover the laptopn in few minutes…

45. Thanks for this great utility. It really saved a hell lot of efforts. I have HP dv6767tx with vista installed on it. I tried to install Windows XP by formatting the Hard disk. But found out later that Xp is not supported on this laptop ( don’t know why, but thats what was told by HP guy). This Utility helped me to recover the laptop in few minutes…

46. Is there anyway i Can do this myself?They dont supply a recover disc just a erecovery disc u have to make when u get the computer i guess but i didnt get one…

47. Attempt said:

    Is there anyway i Can do this myself?They dont supply a recover disc just a erecovery disc u have to make when u get the computer i guess but i didnt get one.

    It’s very easy to create the disc(s) yourself. You should have some software that will create the disc(s) from the recovery partition. Example HP uses “Recovery Disc Creator”
    Located in the start menu listing “PC Help and Tool” Just follow the directions, and have the CD(s) or DVD(s) that are required. If you do not know what they are listed under, just check with the computer manufacturer’s website for further information.

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50. Hello people,

    Unfortunatley I have Sony VAIO laptop with vista on it.I was trying to unistall vista and did a boot
    Now it is showing File :\Boot\BCD
    Status: 0*c0000098
    Info: the windows boot configuration data file does not contain a valid OS entry ……what should I do now…..
    I am unable to start my vista as well….Plz gurus olz help me…
    I am in a really trouble now.