Windows Vista Recovery Disk and Repair Disc Download

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1. i still didn’t moved to vista becaude is resources
   but thanks for the link

2. thanks for the files

3. I have booted up using your CD, and it opens a display tha tgives me the option to Install Windows or Repair Windows. I chose to repair and it took me to the same System Recovery screen I had been to when booting my system on its own without the CD. It’s asking me to load my drivers and I’m not sure where I need to point it to. Should I have chosen to install instead of repair? Would you happen to know what driver(s) I need to point it to in order for it to boot up properly? Thanks!!

4. i need vista recovery dvd for x64.
   thanks,

5. This literally saved me, well done, thank you, really great stuff

6. Hi, my Acer laptop needs a recovery disk to start working again and Acer have tried charging me £50 for this and also said it will take up to 40 days to actually arrive! Can I download this and it will work? I don’t want to make the laptop worse so it cannot be fixed…if you can help email me on linekar_9@hotmail.com please.
   Thanks
   Corinne

7. Actually, I don’t know about the other guys, but my computer that I bought from Dell does come with an OEM copy of Vista. It’s not a “recovery DVD”, it’s a full copy of Vista, that is just branded for Dell. I’m surprised that no one clued into this slight error in the article. Now, the recovery CD seems like a great idea, and I’ve seen these over the years in my computer career, but Vista comes with a lot of interesting tools in the WinRE. As well, there are lots of 3rd party tools that one could mount onto a CD, DVD, USBKey, etc in order to repair a computer.

   As well, repairing a Windows installation is usually a band-aid solution at best. It usually is good enough to gain enough stability to remove your data and back up everything before doing a full reinstall of the operating system. I haven’t seen is actually fix anything in the long term.

   Good luck, though.

8. Corinne, thanks for the warning

9. My VAIO laptop is really busted – it won’t start cause of corrupted windows, I really hope this works.

10. I downloaded the ISO file from the above link and used it today. My Vista windows got corrupted in the registry while editing HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip section for security fixes. After that some error came to run “msiexec.exe/unregister” command. I did but, but a big problem arose with .exe, .ink and .zip types of files. So I repaired it by using this heavenly recovery disc. Although it took a long time to understand using it. I was almost about to reinstall the windows newly. I burned into CD by transferring to my friends PC with USB disk. Thanks to this saviour disc which saved from reinstalling windows.

11. Hi,
    I was just wondering if there was a solution yet for those of having the “install.wim” problem. I downloaded the recovery disk both ways and copied them to cd’s using ImgBurn with no luck. Could you please let us know when there is a new file to use? Thanks for all of this, it is a life saver!

12. i have windows vista home premium and media player 11 is a bit messed up. I have yet to find a solution. Vista will not allow me to reinstall wp11, says my version is newer. there is no place in the OS to uninstall it either. will this recovery disk fix wp11?

13. I bought Acronis TrueImage Home 11. I love it. If anything happens to Vista, in 15 minutes I am up and running again. Acronis TrueImage is fantastic.

14. “but it’s damn-decent of Microsoft to make this available to Windows’ users who might not be capable of creating such a thing on their own.”

    hahhaha decent is a word M$ don’t understand

    I bought a lenovo $1000 laptop, came with no restore cds, didnt matter i installed my Ububtu CD and in 15 minutes I had OS, office suite, wireless and internet working easy.

    “but it’s damn-decent of Microsoft to make this available to Windows’ users who might not be capable of creating such a thing on their own.”

    Hahahahhahahahahhahahha

    Microshaft ONLY serve the stock market, ps i bet the above download links are illegal

    Americans are utter wankers, us brits pi$$ on them

15. Hello, I downloaded the disk twice and there is no sub-menu for “Repair”, and the only way to get to a command prompt is to hit Shift + Rt Click, then the only thing you can run is Notepad. I have a HP-preloaded with Vista Home Premium. I had a working dual boot for a couple of months, then I had problems with Xubuntu 7.10 AMD64 X-Server, so I lost my cool & just reinstalled Gutsy. That’s when I lost the main Vista loader. I still has the Recovery partition, but I tried to fix the MBR with an XP system disk, now it says it’s not even formatted on one program, but all the sectors are still there. I used EasyBCD before the first install of Linux & loved it. I’ve tried for days to get some kind of boot loader to work in Wine & CX-Over, with NO success. I would just install XP on free space, but I don’t want to mess things up even more. Anyone know where to find the full-menu version Repair Disk that was mentioned above? I can’t wait to be rid of MS once and for all, but for now I need to get back into my files again. They’re only about 75% backed up.:-(

    Thanks.

16. Hi everyone i have windows vista ultimate and when it was installing i was tidYing up my computer leads and the power cord for the hard drive came out!
    When i went to turn my pc on it said windows installation is not complete please reinstall. And then it restarts and the says the same in some sort of loop – but i dont have a disk – will this recovery iso repair my vista? Any other help needed ~thanks~

17. the download keeps freezing.

18. I really liked your program, and wrote about it on my site. I will be seeding this torrent for a while to help out.

    Keep up the great work.

19. If the download freezes, use the torrent. It’s very well-seeded (thanks guys!) and should finish in no time.

20. Thanks, my problem i deleted xp (while i had vista isntalled) ( xp was broke somehow) and the problem to start vista was removed to, so there was the 2 hours of stress.
    but finaly found something usefull 🙂

21. When i boot from this disk (and the ‘repair’ option on f8 boot menu) it show the windows loading screen then gives me a black screen with a white cursor. anybody know whats up with that?

22. Mike,

    When I fixed my Vista MBR (through TestDisk in Ubuntu) I had to use the Vista Recovery Boot Disk to get back into the Vista Recovery. My F8 Option stopped working.

    Hope this helps!

23. gday, i downloaded this file and burnt it as a image,
    the program work no problem however after inserting my
    product number the error E://Sources/Install.win file
    does not exist error code 0x80070002 comes up

    if anyone can assist please do.
    Ben

24. Hi all.
    Last week I bought an HP Pavilion dv6625ep laptop which, as you know, comes with that recovery partion thing (heaven forbids HP from including a couple of DVD’s containing the Vista I PAID for).
    I was doing some tweaking and remembered it was a good idea to backup that recovery app to a couple os DVD’s. Since I had removed Roxyo from the computer, the “Create Recovery Disc” application simply wouldn’t run. Instead, if posted the erros “This system does not have a unit capable of recording CD or DVD”, or something like that. This despiste I had installed Nero and a couple of other burning software.

    So… rolled back to Roxyo, tried to create the recovery discs again, and it worked. Crazy, huh?
    So I guess I’ll be sticking to Roxyo, and a lot of other apps that Vista is apparently forcing me to use. God, I hate Vista…

25. Just a correction to my text: where it says “Instead, if posted the erros (…)” it should read “Instead, IT posted the ERROR”.
    Kind of sleepy and mixing portuguese with english, sorry about that 🙂

26. Ben, did you switch disks to your own Vista Recovery disk after booting with this one? You can only recover the boot files from this disk. If you want recover the whole system, you have you switch to your own Vista Recovery disk — that has your product number verification. 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.

27. thanks scott, i have wiped off my recovery of my hard drive
    there is nothing on my hard drive. and yes i only used the
    software which i downloaded off here. My system was inbuilt
    with vista home premium.
    any ideas?

28. thanks scott, i have wiped off my recovery of my hard drive
    there is nothing on my hard drive. and yes i only used the
    software which i downloaded off here. My system was inbuilt
    with vista home premium.

29. Everything works fine for me but when i reach up to the point of almost getting it done it stops in the middle of everything and tells me there’s a problem with my disk. Is there something I’m doing wrong?

30. Same for me, it asks for my product key and everything and starts loading up, but at the final stage it says something like a component error and cannot complete the process…Really need to get my laptop working again, so any suggestions would be great! Email me on linekar_9@hotmail.com.
    Thanks 🙂

31. Well guys, the ONLY way you can get your system disks is from the manufacturer of your laptop/desktop (HP, Dell, etc.) and give them proof of ownership. Then they’ll either send you the DVDs (for a nominal fee) or let you download the ISOs. If you bought your laptop second-hand, you’ll need to go the the original owner and have him/her get you the disks, or prove somehow that it’s yours. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

32. Yeah I know that but Acer are trying to rip me off for £50 for a disc which I’m not willing to pay at the moment. Any other advice would be great.

33. Hey Guys can u pls help me on this one, if i use this recovery disc and if this run on my PC, does it will erase o return my system to fresh one or my it will only repair some problems at let my installed programs intact.pls help me im new in this process ive never try any recovery disc and im afriad to lose some programs and files on my system, im totally rookie on this matter, can someone email me. eckszever@hotmail.com
    Thanks Guys

34. Corinne, it is illegal for them to try to make you pay extra money. Kick up a stink and demand it for free, or else you will report them to dept. of fair trading etc. Be courageous and demand the disc for free from Acer.

35. Corinne, it is illegal for Acer to do that to you. They must by law give you what you paid for. Kick up a stink and demand they give you the CD, or you will report them to the dept. of fair trading etc. Be courageous and demand what you are entitled to. If you demand it and threaten them with legal action, they will give you the CD for free.

36. Corrine,

    You can always go with Linux, Xubuntu is just like Windows, even better because it’s FREE, all of it, and it’s almost 100% Microsoft compatible. You can download the ISO for free at http://www.xubuntu.org/get and if you want the disk sent to you, I think it’s about $5.00 US.

37. This website is the closest thing I have found to help, but I need somebody to tell it to me straight.

    I run Vista Home Premium on an Acer laptop from compusa.com. I also use Windows Live OneCare. No recovery disc or Vista disc came with my purchase. Everything was already installed.

    After moving to New Orleans and using a free public wifi hotspot, OneCare did an automatic update and asked me to reboot. After reboot, OneCare could not start; I had strange programs listed in my “blocked programs list” (inihid); my tray icons would not update (like when you plug in a USB device), the start menu would freeze if I tried certain run commands, like msconfig; my volume control and function buttons on the laptop would no longer work; my network center is completely inaccessable; the dollar sign/euro sign button on my keyboard has no response; I can only run a select few programs; and other strange anomolies.

    I’ve spent a few hours with the OneCare tech people, each of their attempts to download a program from the internet and open it leads to simply no action on screen. They just can’t seem to help.

    Here’s the point. I would love to move my important documents and music files, 20gb or so, onto a external hard drive, and do whatever it takes to make my laptop functional again. Is it possible to start over? Wipe out everything and go back to a time before I had this debilitating problem? (The only program I can use now is an ancient version of MS Word).

    If I can follow the instructions on how to burn this .iso image onto a blank dvd on a friends computer, am I on the right track? Is there something I don’t know about in a partition somewhere on my computer?

    I have no attatchments to my configuration or anything else except what I can shuttle over to a external hard drive. Is anyone listening that can tell me if I have the freeedom to format and start over?

    Thank you. Your experience is valuable to me.

    Sincerely,

    Danny

38. after downloading it on a cd and than inserting in to my laptop how do i go about that how do i recover the windows cos im trying to do this cos i forgot my password anyone help me with the steps please

39. Danny, I’m afraid this CD will not help you reinstall Windows. You’re going to need to contact Acer and get a recovery DVD (assuming you don’t have a recovery partition).

40. Thanks for the advice.
    Tony, apparently I would of been prompted when I first got my laptop to make a recovery disc so it’s my fault really as I didn’t do that. I’m no ‘technical wizz’ so had no idea the importance of this.
    So I’m not entirely sure if I can actually threaten them with legal action at this stage…
    I hae just ordered a CD from Ebay that should hopefully recover my hard drive and system, it only cost £2.99 so I thought I would give it a try.
    Corinne

41. Hi!
    After a resent power cut my computer will not restart the loading vista screen pops up then blackscreen for about 5 secs ,as if its goin to load then BAM! blueescreen to fast to read the computer wil not start now and do the samething ova and ova will this recovery disc help this problem.

    running windows vista

    thank u

42. Thanks for providing this utility!
    I’m having a small problem with it, which I thought you might be able to help with. I downloaded and burned the image, booted to it, everything seemed to be working. It took a very long time to boot, and now I’ve been staring at a black screen with a white mouse pointer for a long time.
    The pointer works, moves around and such, but there’s nothing else going on, and it doesn’t seem like the computer is doing any work (the disk light is off, the CDROM doesn’t seem to be reading…).

    I did use Nero to burn the image, but since it booted normally (up until the end) I didn’t think that was the issue.
    Any thoughts? This is a brand new Sony Vaio VGN-FZ140E, with what seems to be a bad hard drive. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

43. I have HP Compaq nx7300 and Vista Business came pre-installed. A set of one recovery disc is allowed for each PC, when I purchased this notebook PC, someone has already made a set of recovery disk. When I tried to do it, it said only 1 set allowed per PC. What shall I do now? Please tell me the way of making one new set.

    Secondly, my system has one recovery partition which is around 8 GB big and total hard disk size of 120 GB. I want to create one more partition where i will keep my documents. Incase, any dangerous virus gets in, i can easily format the C drive where Windows is installed and recover it later. Tell me the procedure of creating one more partition without destroying the recovery partition.

    When I purchased my notebook, the shop person installed HP windows XP Sp2 saying that Vista might cause compatibilty problems with my old peripherals. I have realized that Vista is superior than XP and all of my devices will work properly with Vista. The recovery set discs option is already used and recovery partition too has Windows Xp in it. I have Windows Vista sticker near my keyboard and Vista Business seal (including product key) at the bottom.

    Is it possible to request HP to send to me the HP Windows Vista CD (OS which came preinstalled) and drivers CD as I didnt receive a single CD from HP

44. Hi everyone,

    I tried the burn twice with Nero and cd was not bootable. Then I used ImgBurn and it is bootable. Now I have another problem if you can help.

    After selecting Repair, I have a window asking me to select an OS to repair but there are none. There is a message it says “If you do not see your operating system listed, click Load Drivers to load the drivers for your hard disks.

    I pressed load drivers and it is asking me to “Insert the installation media for the device and click OK to select the driver.”

    I do not know what to do?

    Please help,

    Calvin

45. Hey Guru, for some reason I keep getting an error when I go to burn the CD-RW it keeps saying this…

    “Device error:(16580608) Could not write to Disc (LBA: -150 Length: 26).
    Unkown Error. -0x072700” -This was for CDBurnerXP, there was a similar problem with ImgBurn also. What do you think is wrong? When I burnt the image to a regular CD-R disc it worked for Nero but when I ran it on my notebook it didnt do anything, just sat there with the lil blinking -… Then it said

    1. Insert windows installation CD… Bla bla bla… Am I entering the wrong thing in anyways?

46. Calvin, when you try to boot to the HDD, does it say “NTLDR Mssing”? If so, the way I fixed my problem was to download the Linux Ubuntu Live ISO for free, then boot from that disk. Open a terminal window (in a full screen) and type “sudo testdisk” and choose ANALYZE. It will show you what’s wrong with your disk/partition. Then go to ADVANCED and REBUILD NT BOOT SECTOR, then LIST, then WRITE. This is a radical solution, but it will rebuild your NT Boot Sector, which sounds like what happened. After you rebuild the NT Boot Sector, you can boot with the Vista Recovery Disk and your Vista installation will show up and it will repair any damage.

    Hope this helps!

47. Can I install Windows Vista from this Cd to a notebook which has Windows XP currently installed and was shipped with Windows Vista product key….

    For more details ready my post above…….

48. Hi Scott,

    Thanks for the reply. Even though it did not find any OS I still clicked next and did some repair. After restart I got this message “BOOTMGR is missing”. I booted from the cd again and did another repair. This time in the middle of repair, I got a window saying the recovery can not fix all the problems and asked me whether I want to report it to Microsoft like all the other error reporting they have.

    I tried to do a recovery from the built in tool which comes with Vista by pressing F10 which is supposed to take me to the Utility. But something amazing happened and windows started. I logged in and now all is fine. No idea!!! But hey I am happy.

    Calvin

49. DELL Doesn’t provide recovery discs with machines. They provide Vista re-installation disc with which you can either repair or even format your hard drive and reinstall clean windows. The disc doesn’t include any promotion software or device drivers. The drivers need to be installed separately from a driver CD (provided separately)

50. Anyone who has the the Windows Vista Anytime Upgrade disc also has a bootable Vista recovery environment, the same one that is one the Vista installation disc.

    Some manufacturers may include this Anytime Upgrade disc with the PC, even if they don’t included any other disc containing the recovery environment. For example, HP is notorious for not including a true reinstallation disc (one that is capable of doing a clean install), but apparently does ship Microsoft’s Anytime Upgrade disc with at least some systems. See:
    http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/456746-0-0-225-121.html

    In any event, one can buy (for $7) the Anytime Upgrade disc from Microsoft, among other vendors:
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/windowsanytimeupgrade/faq.mspx
    https://na.windowsanytimeupgradestore.com/WAU_DIRECT/Purchase.aspx