Windows Vista Recovery Disk and Repair Disc Download

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1. Anjum, so long as you installed that pirated Windows Vista with the CD-Key on the bottom of your laptop, you’re legal 100% and don’t need to worry.

   If you installed it with some other CD key, install it again but this time use the key that came with your laptop. The Windows Vista License is tied to the CD-Key, not the installation DVD. It doesn’t matter if you downloaded the DVD illegally, borrowed it from a friend, bought it from a store, or used the one that came with your PC – it’s the license key you used that matters.

   If the License Key is yours and valid, you’re legal no matter where the DVD came from. In the same way, even if you went out and bought a DVD but used somebody else’s license key to activate Windows, then you’re doing it illegally.

2. Hi again,
   Some help? for some on here:
   If you can’t see your desktop in normal start-up but can in safe mode then chances are a virus…back up your files and re-install your op. system.
   You can create recovery discs in safe mode also for most manufacturers.
   If you have forgotton your password for XP, then boot in safe mode and then remove your password under control panel and user accounts. Unfortunately Vista is more secure and asks for a password in Safe mode also.
   If you have a boot error onstart-up, use your recovery disc up to the point where it’s about to re-install,then cancel and re-start, this normally works and has worked every time for me.
   Hp use F11 for re-install from partition. Sony have the same sort of set-up, Fujitsu use F8 (repair your PC) and Toshiba the same, or tap F12 on start-up and select DVD if you are recovering from Disc.
   With the HP recovery, always go into ‘Advanced options’ it will give you more choice of what to do…..

3. This link isn’t working – I can’t download the vista recovery discs.

4. i have downloaded it. when i burn it, it says that i need CD not DVD. i have DVD burner not the CD one.

   What do i do now? ?

5. DVD burners can burn to CDs too – just put a blank CD in there instead of a blank DVD.

6. i have burnt the cd. when i install it, it says that following file is missing i.e. E:\Sources\install.wim

   Please guide.

7. Hi,

   I downloaded the files & loaded it onto my laptop. I pressed F8, but
   only get two options:

   1. Launch startup repair
   2. Start windows normally

   I changed the boot location to the cd that I burned the files to. It
   still points to these two options.

   Either option brings me back to the startup repair error. Please
   advise what I’m doing wrong.

8. Hello,
   I have the “Bootmgr is missing” issue… My system is a Dell Inspiron 1525 (laptop), running Windows Vista Home Basic (purchased brand new in Jun’08). I followed instructions posted on this forum to fix the problem, but to no avail… Also, as suggested on the site dedicated to the bootmgr problem, i tried to run the repair tool more than once – again, no luck.

   I tried to repair it via the startup repair tool as well as via the command prompt (from the recovery disk), no luck. The reapir tool keeps coming back with “Startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically”. The repair log shows root cause as:

   * Boot manager is missing or corrupt

   * Repair action: File repair

   * Result: Failed. Error code = 0x5

   * Time taken = 5008ms

   * Repair action: system restore

   * Result: failed. Error code = 0xffff

   * Time taken = 23011ms

   The problem signature shows the following information:

   * Problem event name: StartupRepairV2

   * Problem signature 01: ExternalMedia

   * Problem signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6000.16386

   * Problem signature 03: 0

   * Problem signature 04: 65537

   * Problem signature 05: unknown

   * Problem signature 06: MissingBootManager

   * Problem signature 07: 0

   * Problem signature 08: 2

   * Problem signature 09: SystemRestore

   * Problem signature 10: 65365

   * OS version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1

   * Locale ID: 1033

   When i run bcdedit command from the command prompt (either from c: or x:), i get the following output:

   Windows Boot Manager

   * identifier {bootmgr}

   * device partition = c:

   * default {default}

   * display order {default}

   * timeout 30

   Windows Boot Loader

   * identifier {default}

   * device partition c:

   * path \windows\system32\winload.exe

   * description Windows Vista Home Basic

   * osdevice partition = c:

   * systemroot \windows

   When i run bootrec /scanos i get “successfully scanned Windows installations. Total identified Windows installations: 0. This operation completed successfully.”

   When i run bootrec /fixboot, i get the message that it completed successfully, yet when i restart the computer i still get that “bootmgr is missing” message. Can someone pls tell me what might be going on here?

   I am thinking that for some reason, the repair tool is not seeing the Vista installation on the hard drive and thus cannot repair it. the bootrec /scanos would seem to suggest so… Yet when the repair tool runs, it locates windows installation, so i select it to allow the tool to continue. But the result as i described above.

   So, i am out of ideas at this stage. short of blowing away the current install and re-installing the OS (and thus losing all the information on HD) i don’t know how to get this fixed. If any of you have any suggestions, i look forward to hearing from you,

   Cheers,
   Paul

9. Hello,

   I am experiencing problems with Vista HE 32bit (on a Asus P5E3 motherboard).

   Last night the computer had a BSOD and reboot correctly. Later on I went to sleep and when I checked this morning, it was trying to boot. But the only thing showing is the green bar running and nothing changes. Left it running for a couple of hours but nothing.

   I tried to boot with the Recovery Disk and it starts loading files and then again the green bar starts scrolling without stopping.

   Any idea?

   I would like to have a possibility to backup some files before needing to reinstall everything.

   Regards

   Steven

10. Sonuds like disk corruption – connect the HD to another PC and run chkdsk /f from there.

11. This is a good idea. Problem is that the asus mb also has a Intel raid controller and I have 3 disks in Raid5. Yesterday there was a rebuild on this raid group and I don’t know if this has anything to do with it.

    I will try to disconnect these disks from the controller and try to boot up with the boot disk.

    Steven

12. Just to make sure this is what I need:
    I have a HP, with a recovery partition on D.

    I have XP on it now, but I want it back to vista (original OS).

    My processor is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual.

    I am currently downloading the Vista 64 bit one.

    I am correct, yes?

13. Hi,I downloaded the files & loaded it onto my laptop. I pressed F8, but only get two options:
    1. Launch startup repair
    2. Start windows normally

    I changed the boot location to the cd. that I burned the files to. It still points to these two options.

    Either option brings me back to the startup repair error.

    Please advise what I’m doing wrong.

    Thanks.

14. This is just a Scrap !!

    And will cause more harm to your another PC too !! @@@#&*#$^&@!!%!

15. Hi,

    Boot mgr is missing? Try an older Fujitsu Vista disc (last year, when they supplied them) and go through the motions of recovery WITHOUT actually recovering…stop at the screen where it asks you where you want to install vista (if there’s no partition listed then your HDD may have had it!!!!) Cancel the recovery and re-start your PC, it’s fixed it for me before (i work in one of the retailers that sell these things!). Most manufacturers have some sort of fault diagnosis built in now also…F2 used to get an option to check HDD on HP’s, now they have PC-Doctor powered stuff through F9. Fujitsu have a downloadable Boot disc and most have the option to recover without discs if you haven’t made them yet….HP is thru F11, Fujitsu and Toshiba F8 ‘repair your PC’. A reminder that Recovery Disc creation is available thru F8 on Fujitsu.
    NONE of the brands we deal with: HP/Acer/Toshiba/Fujitsu supply recovery discs. Hp dropped it first i think, then Fujitsu followed and now Toshiba…..

    Pete

16. Hi Pete,
    thanks for the info…. not quite sure how i could get hold of a disk like this… this is effectively a disk with os image… i think getting it from the store would be an issue… would you be able to tell me what is the spec for the disk, ie what os version and any other useful info? I will then try local Fujitsu supplier (if i can find one) prove that i am licensed for the s/w, maybe they will be willing to help. thanks!

    Cheers,
    Paul

17. I downloaded the x64 file, but all I can find in the zip folder are the following files:

    One labeled Boot with three files labeled bcd, boot.sdi and bootfix.bin
    Another labeled Sources with a file called boot.wim
    And another file called bootmgr

    Non of them have iso extensions so when I try to burn the disk there is nothing to burn. The total file size is still the correct 147mb, what a I missing? Thanks for your help, this site has been a great find!

    Devin

18. Thank you, this is a life saver. I use my computer for a consulting business and downtime is a death sentence.

    I bought a new Lenovo laptop R61p in late August, and it has already died. Before the laptop crashed I had created regular full image backups on an external harddrive. While the Lenovo tech help was really good at getting out a new harddrive and recovery disks their phone tech help and I are stuck in an endless loop. Basically, I tell them that from everything I have read on microsoft.com I need the Windows Vista Installation disk to access the full image on the external harddrive and the Lenovo tech help is leading me through all sorts of antics trying to boot from one of their recovery disks.

    Anyway, thank you for posting this.

19. I burned the iso using the methods and burning software you recommended (ImgBurn). It all worked except when I boot to the burned dvd, I get a blue textured screen (I assume the background image) and I see and can use my pointer, but I see no text or options to click on, just that blue background and my pointer…

    Any ideas…?

20. Hey guys, I had given my kids my old computer to whom gave it back to me stuffed. I have followed all the instructions given but to no success. I have gotten to the point were it states System Recovery Optionswith no present drivers available. When I then Load drivers it comes up with 4 drivers to which I have tried them all but no good still. Can you give me info on what I am doing wrong.
    cheers

21. I had an Advent computer (UK) which sufferede a corrupted bootmgr file. I dowloaded this file from the link given above and followed the instructions. I rebuilt the bootbcd.exe file and all worked perfectly.

    Thank you for making this facility available to everyone.

22. I am on vista on a compaq presario and I can’t boot computer cause it says bootmgr missing, so i try to recover and i get that error this post is originally talking about, so i downloaded the torrents above and burned them and booted from them but when it tried to install, i got 0x80070002 error and that theres no install.wim at E drive sources or something like that. Can anyone tell me what to do

23. I download the recovery disk and run it.
    it can repair the window vista.
    it is asking to reinstall.
    I worry. do I need to input the serial no.
    I don’t have the serial no. for HP laptop when I bought it.

    Tony Ng

24. when I install vista.
    an error occur.
    “Windows cannot open the required file E:\Sources\Install.wim. The file does not exist. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Erro code 0x80070002”

    Tony Ng

25. error occur when install window
    “Windows cannot open the required file E:\Sources\Install.wim. The file does not exist. Make sure all files required ofr installation are avaliable and restart the installation. Error code 0x80070002”

26. error occur when install window
    “Windows cannot open the required file E:\Sources\Install.wim. The file does not exist. Make sure all files required ofr installation are avaliable and restart the installation. Error code 0x80070002”

27. Guru..

    Pls clear my doubts..

    We purchased a HP core2duo machine as per rate contract. In the rate contract
    it is specified that ‘vista business pre-installed with media and certificate of
    authenticity’. But they provided a system with OEM-vista. The certification is pasted on the CPU. The media doesn’t include the Installation CD of Vista. Only
    recovery CD is provided. Is it cheating ???

    I have more doubt to clear…

    1.If my hard drive is completely damaged and If i install a new one,
    Can i reinstall or recover the Vista O/S from the recovery CD ?

    2. Can I create a vista installation CD/DVD from a recovery CD??

    3. Where is recovery partition ? can i identify it from ‘My computer’ ?

    Pls clarify immediately

28. Thanks for this post and download, it worked out for me, but I have to say: Windows Vista is still running slow with SP1. Why is it called a ‘service’pack anyway? It didn’t help me out 🙂

    Nonetheless, thanks again for the post.

29. Oh man, I really hope this works, I don’t know what happened. I was using my laptop, ugraded firefox, and then when I went to reboot my laptop it came up with this bs. I think if I get this to restore I am going back to xp! Except that this is a rent to own laptop that I have not finished paying for. 🙁 I have an older laptop though, but it isn’t as nice.

30. AARRRGGGH!!! MY ISP BLOCK TORRENTS!!

31. Works great – had an issue where I did an offline defrag and when it was done my machine reported that it couldn’t boot because it couldn’t find the \boot\bcd file. This recovery disk fixed it instantly and completely!
    Great job!

32. thanks for this very useful information. It did exactly what it should have.

33. Hey guys,

    Just a note to say thanks for the cd. My laptop got a boot problem through a corrupt/missing ntoskrnl file. Ran your cd, repaired the file and now everything works great.

    Much appreciated, keep up the great work.

    Martin

34. Vista wouldnt boot this iso image d/ in 5 min booted in 30 seconds. Been on hold with hp for 50 min without any help. use this disk it works perfectly

35. Hi Paul_oz,
    sorry, i’m not viviting this website so often now, hopefully you’ve now fixed your laptop/pc, but if not, yes, it would probably be difficult to obtain the disc i’ve used…ideally check around for anyone with a 2007 Fujitsu laptop/pc who should have recovery discs supplied (o/s Vista Basic or Premium) and borrow one off them to try. good luck!
    Pete.

36. Thanks Neosmart! Downloaded torrent. ImgBurn. Burned to disc and rebooted onto damaged HP.
    Worked well.

37. Neosmart team,

    I almost gave up until somehow fate brought me to your site. Thanks for this great solution. I didn’t have too much confident that this will work but it did! I encountered the ntoskrnl.exe problem after the vista service pack 1 installation.
    Thanks again!

38. Thank you this was perfect and easy worked the first time no problems.

39. HELP! when my lenovo trys to boot up it says “cannot find operating system” and when i try the vista recovery disc it cannot find drivers or the operating system. what should i do?

40. Thanks guys!!!

    This recovery disc rocks!!!
    Saved me the time downloading the 2 Gb file from msdn!

41. Buddy, you are the best.
    Toshiba support are a bunch of retards, waited 40 minutes and then a message pops up that there office hours are closed at 5:00 PM.
    I downloaded your torrent, and it works perfectly. It took me 5 munutes to get my system running.
    Again Thanks, keep up the good work.

42. this has just saved me in a BIG way – my HP DV9500 has been nothing but trouble from day one and when it does go wrong the only option they provide is reset to factory settings, I think not!! Thanks for this, you’ve saved my digital photos, music library and document…PRICELESS!!

43. having problem, disk boots up but when i try to install an error pops-up that says E:/sources/install.wim is missing.

44. Hi Everyone,

    I have a Lenovo Y410 T5750, and the package doesn’t have a vista installer on it that’s why i want to have a PC recovery disc but it seems that my laptop does not have a PC recovery software. Can Anyone help me how and where can i find a perfect software that i need for my machine.

    Advance thanks! 🙂

45. Hi Everyone,

    I have a Lenovo Y410 T5750, and the package doesn’t have a vista installer on it that’s why i want to have a PC recovery disc but it seems that my laptop does not have a PC recovery software. Can Anyone help me how and where can i find a perfect software that i need for my machine.

    Advance thanks! 🙂

    Resending…..

46. i Tried to run the program and got to a point where it asked for the product key…i enter it and it gives me the error code 0x80070002

47. Mike
    The software that neosmart has made is for recovery purposes. it works best if there is a backup/image of the PC already saved somewhere. It wont work (to my knowledge) as a clean install per se.

    Michael, which version of Vista have you got? If you have the business edition, there is a built in backup option

48. my computer recently stopped booting and a friend of the family helped to get it up and running agin except i lost all my things off the computer that i can not get back is there any way to get them back?

49. Hey does that work with Windows Vista Home Basic 32-Bit? Because i followed the guide and it dident work at all

50. i have same as james, home basic. i used to be able to press f11 at startup and use recovery now it doesnt work. also i tried making my own disk with Recovery disk Creation, but doesnt work. i tried clearing space on my computer and i think i deleted some things i shouldnt have.