Windows Vista Recovery Disk and Repair Disc Download

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1. Vista home premium error on an HP laptop:

   File: \Boot\BCD
   Status: 0xc0000034
   Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information

   Downloaded the torrent file/iso on a mac.
   moved it to a PC and burned for free with: CDBurnerXP from: http://cdburnerxp.se/

   rebooted vista, chose the repair option.
   after the install and reboot all is well.

   Thanks for this website!!!

2. I have downloaded Windows vista 32 bit (x86) recovery disc torrent, but it is being downloaded as a dead file. Plz help me

3. does this software allow you to restore from factory settings? b

4. Hey guys,

   Wonder if anyone can help me. I have a Lenovo Y500 series laptop which came with a pre-installed Windows Home Basic. They did not provide me with a recovery disc or a recovery partition. Now my lappy has konked out. I need to recover my system. What can i do?? can i use the above stuff and use the same Windows Vista reg key that i have at the bottom of my lap-top??? Please advice.

   Thanks,
   Anupam

5. Just learned that if you hit F10 reboot is built into the Windows Vista with no need for a disk!!!!!!

6. hi, thank you very much. today this bootdisk helped me recover my vista.

7. Thanks. It’s a brilliantly, useful idea to make this utility available!

8. thanks for making this available.

   after 2 days and a serioulsy sick machine, the recovery CD after 3 attempts brought it back from the brink.

   Why this is not available from the micorsoft site given that OEMS are not supplying it to end users. I dont know.

   oh well, can now try and install SP1 again and hope this time It does not kill the machine

   thanks for your support

9. I tried to use this non ultimate dreamscene patch for vista and screwed up with the personalization menu. now it shows “page won’t load” or something like that and a blank window.
   1. will this recovery disc correct this?
   2. do I have to start from the scratch or what do I miss by using this repair?
   Please Help!
   Dilina

10. will the 64 bit torent work on a sony vaio laptop with windows vista??
    and will i lose anything on the computer itself ie pictures and music etc

11. when i turn on my pc i get a black screen with !! 0xc0000034 !! 251/68938(000000000000000_ms) flashing in white. now i was told that i could use a recovery disk to help, if this is true then email me at the email address above. and if anyone can give me any more info on how to fix this problem, it will be greatly apresheated.

    thanks

12. Hey guys my friend just bought a computer from another friend of mines but its locked it’s asking for a password he got it cheap so thats why he bought it thinking he’ll unlock it somehow.

    I found this website and downloaded the link, burned it successfully and tried to boot it, it took me to the boot menu…i clicked on INSTALL NOW…asked me for the activation code I dont have an activation code i tried to click next…and then it said something about it cannot find “install. something but if you know what I’m talking about is there anyway someone can help me?

    Its an HP Pavillion DV9000xd I believe..

    thank you..

    e-mail: shpatb@hotmail.com

13. I have a HP Compaq Presario laptop running vista that i bought just over a year ago. When I turn the power on it just restarts itself. Only when i press any or a combination of F8-F12 does it stay switched on but displays no image on the screen.

    I’ve used the recovery disc as advised on this site but I can’t even get into the BIOS to change the boot configuration to CR_ROM. It spins the disc but then stops.

    Any ideas?

14. I’ve booted from the recovery disk (downloaded the iso, nero’d it to a CD, booted from CD), bu tI don’t see any gui….just a DR DOS prompt, I even tried to fdisk /mbr, but it won’t take.

    why can’t I see the gui?

    any help is greatly appreciated.

    mf

15. Hi, all!

    (1)By using this iso you won’t loose your data. The iso is going to repair the os, not reinstalling it.
    If you have a data partition, don’t worry.

    (2)My advice for future ocurrencies

    Start\left-click on the Documents icon\Proprieties\4th tab\Move\Select a free partition (normally a D: drive, or a non-windows-system-drive with another drive letter)\Create a Folder (Documents)\Press “Select Folder”, and go get a cup of coffe while you wait.

    This process will move EVERYTHING on the documents folder to a non-os drive, normally a D: drive. So, if you need to format, repair or install another os, you don’t need to worry about loosing your personal docs.

    Dito isto, vamos ao que interessa!

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    To prime your dvd/cd drive for start up in the BIOS menu.

    There are 2 ways:

    \\1
    After pressing the ‘on’ button, press the corresponding key to enter the BIOS setup, or SETUP (it could be the BELETE key, but it can be other – watch the bottom of the screen for instructions).

    In the BIOS setup, hit the arrows to go back and forth in the diferent tab menus. Go to the boot menu. Go down (arrows) to select the dvd/cd drive, and use the F5 or F6 to order the boot sequence. || The dvd/cd drive MUST BE THE TOP ONE. ||

    Press Esc and select “exit and save settings”. Your computer will start up using the dvd/cd drive, before the hard drive. (don’t worry about undoing the settings you made in the bios. you will be able to start up normaly after the this repair issue, even other disks inserted)

    \\2
    There is another way… after powering on the computer, press – watch the bottom of the screen for instructions – the BOOT setup key (in the computer i used the cd it was the F2). Using the arrows, select the device you want to boot from. Select your dvd/cd drive by hitting Enter.

    After the cd boot, you will see a language selection menu. Select English, and select your keyboard default (but i think thats only for command prompt – i didn’t use it).

    Another menu will appear, saying install. Instead of install, go to the lower-left options and select “Startup Repair”.

    It worked for me. I had to reboot and repair 2 times. After the second time, windows rebooted normaly.

    Good luck!

    (This is not a very techy thing, but to those of you that are experiencing a loooong black screen after the loading bar, press non essencial keys when it seems that nothing is happening – i used the arrows and worked[!]. Stay alert for the activity led.
    Good Luck!)

16. I used the first recovery disc to wipe and erase the data from my hard drive, then inserted the second cd, but still nothing is happening. My laptop is a sony vaio.

    Please help.

17. Whats the Key

18. i have downloaded the ISO (twice), created the disc using imgburn and recieved the same error message with both copies. The message is:
    ‘Install.wim’ is missing from the source file
    error cose:0x8007002

    can anyone help? thanks in advance

19. Once Again, This is not an installer. This is a recovery disc. Installer disc is 3GB in size. This is only 120mb

20. Hoping someone can help. Received the following message on my Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 upon startup:
    “A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”

    Using this recovery disc I was able to get to the Repair Tools and it scanned my hard drive, rebooted but came back to this same message.

    In trying to boot from this disc again to try repairs once more, it starts “Windows is loading files” and a bar fills the bottom of the screen. When this gets all the way to the right, the Microsoft Corporation with green “scanning” bar appears (the one that usually appears at start up). While this is yone happening you can hear the disc drive working. Then all of a sudden all goes quiet and NOTHING. The mouse arrow appears on the black screen and that’s it. Nothing else happens. I don’t get to the repair/recovery screen I got to the first time I tried this disc. Everything is silent and the only noise the laptop makes is slight clicking/crackling from the hard drive.

    Any thoughts or ideas of what can be done? I would prefer not to reformat my hard drive as there are some files I want to recover.

    Thanks.

21. I downloaded the 64 bit version. It was 145 mb. I wrote it to a cd. but the system will not boot from it. I get the error message ” NTLDR missing” I finally got to look at the disk I burned and sure enough no NTLDR ant where. So after downloading it again several times with the same results I’m asking for help after searching for an answer here and other forums. Thanks

22. I downloaded the 64-bit version. When I try to run it goes through the “windows is loading files” stage and then eventually gets to a blue screen with a white arrow, but nothing else comes up. I’m not sure what went wrong.

23. Your links for vista recovery doesn’t work.

    http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/#respond

24. I downloaded the disc and burnt it, trying to fix my “corrupt” registry but the disc will not boot.

25. @Pinto: Thanks for the explanation. I’ve passed it to my cuz who’s having some issues with his vista

26. Hey ComputerGuru!

    I manages starting up the ISO but the installation stuck saying “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. Error code: 0x80070002” Any ideas!..? :((

27. I bought a new computer over a year ago and was having problems with vista, I then decided to install linux which I absolutely love but I now want to play some games and need to install vista back but I was never given vista disc to reformat as usual, would the torrent posted help me in reformating my computer to vista? If not what are my options? Any answers would be greatly appreciated thank you.

28. Will this work with any computer running windows vista? I got a virus in my laptop and it is shutting down after a couple of mins being on, i won’t let me scan it. I have no recovery disk so i was wondering if this will help me?

    thanks

29. I downloaded the torrent and burnt the image to disc and it says I’m missing a file and it won’t install?

30. hi
    i have dell inspiron 1420
    os is window vista
    i have norton ghost 14
    i just instaled then create backup file of my vista to another drive
    now i have a problem in window vista
    so i want to recover my old vista from that backup file –.v2i
    but i dont know how to recover from that file with the help of norton ghost 14
    pls help
    thanx

31. Hi, I have a HP6710b laptop which came out with Vista Business with a XP recovery CD. Because of work purposes they said i must load XP, which i did and made Vista Business Recovery Discs. Now I want to reinstall VISTA but the recovery discs does not want to run. When I insert the 1st recovery CD is only gives me files with the names “boot”, “preload”, Sources” and “boo.mgr”.

    I am not a computer guru and don’t know much about it. Can ANYBODY PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

    Yolande

32. Hi, i have an HP COMPAQ 6735S laptop.

    It came with an OEM VISTA HOME PREMIUM X86, however i reinstalled the system , and now have an ultimate x64 . My question is that ‘ how would it be possible to restore the recovery partition back to its original state and how to make it possible to acces this partition while booting so i could recover my laptop to its original state, because i have deleted that partition’ ? Thanks

33. “Jan. 9th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Hey guys, I’m having a problem with using this to help repair the start-up file that was apparently broken… I burned it, put it in, setup to start from the disc and it says that windows is loading the files, but then stays on a blackscreen with the pointer forever… Is it supposed to do this? How long do I have to wait?”

    Can anyone comment on this? I’m having the same problem. This also occurs when I try to boot from my Lenovo recovery disc. (i have a Lenovo 3000 k100 desktop running ( trying to run) vista home premium)

    Any input would be greatly appreciated! (my computer’s been out of commission for a week now and I’ve tried just about everything. . .)

34. i love you

35. Microsoft has like a thou o´years making money from us, they actually don´t give a F.. for us, they´s just concerned ´bout their profits. Only thing that we need is have competition (now we can enjoy another kind of softwares like Mac) that is not so very unexpensive, though, we could make a whole final balance of what will be better for us, spending a bunch of bucks at the beginig (buyin a Mac)and save lot money and time through the way or make a poor investement first and start spending money for the rest of my PC life.

36. Computer Guru,

    I have downloaded the file using UTorrent and also installed Imgburn. I belive that the file downloaded is a RAR. file. Do i need to burn the RAR. file with Imgburn or extract the contents.

    Thanks for the support.

    Stevie.

37. Thanks guys! I’ve downloaded VR disk to attempt to repair corrupted winsock2 on my Vaio vgn-fz21m. Will it do the trick? I’ve used reccomedations found on MS support sites as well as the ones found on other fora but to no avail! If one of you has a brighter idea, I’m all ears. Thanks for your feedback!

38. I had problems doing this with ImgBurn – worked with CDBurnerXP. Then I found it was the same as the Recoery DVD-ROM for Windows Vista my manufacturer gave me. I thought this would get me into the file system to allow me to save some files but I just ended up reinstalling vista with this. It did give me the optio to install vista to an external HD which might have allowed me to get to the C:/ drive files. Fortunately I had a partition and could get to my non-system files. It did save off my old program files and all in the c:/ drive under Windows.old – good luck

39. I need help. I deleted my Recovery partition (on accident). I cant download the partition on this site. Well matter fact any site. My CD drive doesnt work. Nortons wont work anymore. And I dont have ANY way of reformatting my harddrive. I am deployed overseas at the moment so I cant just take it to a computer shop either. Im screwed unless the computer gurus on this site can help me!!!!

40. I bought a laptop from a yard sale and I need to get around the password, where can i get a ultimate boot cd or get around the pasword

41. If you prefer direct download: (I hate torrent download)
    http://rapidshare.com/files/133046583/WV.Recovery.pm.part1.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/133042756/WV.Recovery.pm.part2.rar

42. Dear Sir,
    I have acer laptop with vista installed on C drive. But vista is not allowing me to install softwares like C, MATLAB etc. Hence I decided to go for multiboot OS. I installed XP on E drive but now vista is invisible. Please tell me how to recover it. Is it necessary ti again load Office 2003 which was already loaded in C with vista. Please guide me in this regard.

    With regards,
    G S Kondhare

43. Thank you very much for this guide. I as stuck with my home premium, now let me try this.

44. Need help here pls…previously is vista version, then in stall to XP. Now i want install back to vista again but the system recovery doesn’t work at bios page.
    after downloaded this file n burn to a cd.
    all previous step normal but when start install after key in cd key then pop-up a message “This file doesn’t found F:\Source\Install.wim”

45. Can i just take this and use it on my xp pc? so that now i have vista? 😀 OH and do i need an activation key?

46. U are’s life saver!!! Thanks for filling M$’s holes

47. SIR

    I HAVE LAPTOP ACER IT INSTALLED Windows Vista HOME PREMIAM PROF SP 1 , WE ADD MORE RAM FOR ACER LAPTOP AFTER 3 DAYS IT STATED PEOBLEM AS RESTART EVERY 10 MINISTS, IT GET CURRECPTED

    I DON’T HAVE ITS RECOVERY C.D I DOWNLOAD 32 BIT Recovery Disc & TRY TO RECOVER, IT WORK WELL AT LAST IT ASK C.D KEY I PUT THE C.D KEY WHICH STICK WITH LAPTOP, BUT IT NOT SUPPORTING THAT C.D KEY

    HOW CAN I RECOVER MY VISTA

48. Hi, I’m hoping that you might be able to help me. I seem to be having the same trouble on 2 machine. One has xp and the other has vista. When we try and download anything we get the dialog box that say run or save. It doesn’t matter which option you choose it appear to work but then when it gets to about 5% done on small downloads it still looks as if it is downloading but it doesn’t do anything. I have left it like that for hours and it just sits there. Do I need to reinstall the Operating systems? If so, can I download the recovery disk to a flash drive? Any help would be appreciated…Thanks

49. Hi !

    I succeed to burn an ISO CD-RW using ImgBurn but it doesn’t boot !

    This is my CD content :
    [boot] : bcd, boot.sdi, bootfix.bin
    [sources] : boot.wim
    bootmgr

    Does it seems correct to you ?

50. This is actually my CD content : bootmgr ; boot\bcd, boot.sdi, bootfix.bin ; sources\boot.wim

    Is this correct ?