Windows Vista Recovery Disk and Repair Disc Download

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1. ignore me, i only just realized what i had done… the file file IS an iso and not a rar as the image suggests, so i mounted the file instead of unzipping it.

   sorry guys,

2. Thanks guys for all the info. I have downloaded and burned to Cd, it boots and the gets to the page to either install Vista or repair. I click on repair and it takes me to the repair page I have already been to and tried. I try again but with no luck. My problem is, I can get as far as the windows login page, if I wait at the login page after approx 60″ it Blue screens. If I login, it gets to the welcome page, then after 30″ I get a black screen, sometimes I get my antivirus flash screen others I don’t. Then I get the blue screen. Both times the Stop error code is 0x0000008E. I understand this is a kernal problem, poss graphic.(at this point it is getting beyond me) Does it blues screen when it trys to change screen res? Not sure if I am barking up the wrong tree. If it is how do I correct. Thanks in advance. Gary

3. My dell wont even start i tried the boot disk and i clicked start up repair then it restarted but i keep gettiing the same thing as before a blank screen with the white key flashing i need help n i neeed it fast

4. product key?

5. Hi everyone!

   For those who are having their vista crashed I have good news!
   Now, I have no experience in repairing Vista, but I can help you to retreat your files to a safe place.
   Just get a free copy of Linux Ubuntu or Kubuntu(you will find it in internet, or most probably at some library, since it is a free OS). So you get the CD, boot from it, it should give you 4 options on how to install the OS, you choose the one that “installs it without making any changes or harm to your computer” and navigate through Linux to your files and than get them to a safe place like external hard disk for example.

   Toni

6. @DB: It sounds like there is something else wrong. I don’t think this disc will help you with your problem. You should investigate using the program made by the manufacturer of your hard disk to determine if your hard disk is properly being recognized by the system.

   @Gary Hornbuckle: If your system boots, this rescue CDROM is not for you. You should investigate other tech support resources for problems with windows.

   @Quana: Are you sure you have configured your computer to boot from the CDROM drive first? If so, and all you get is a flashing cursor with a white screen, then something else is wrong, perhaps physically with your computer, and this disc won’t help.

   @breki: This disc is only for rescuing an existing system. The install options on the rescue CDROM do not work. There is no key needed.

   Regards,
   Dave

7. i somehow deleted vista off my computer and my computer wouldent load so i snaged my frends ubuntu disk but ide like to get my old vista back im running on a toshiba A305 and it didnt come with restore disks and the disk i downloaded from you askes for a product key that i dont have can you halp me out any? if anyone elese can e-mail me @ emoassassin1@yahoo.com

8. @breki: You can’t use this CDROM rescue disc for installation. You should use the recovery disc that comes with your laptop to reinstall the system automatically to the factory defaults.

   If you can’t do that, you’ll have to buy a copy of Vista.

   Regards,
   Dave

9. can somebody post the recovery disc made from a vista SP2?

10. Just use the Windows 7 version of the CD from here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/

11. Hello…. I have not used Windows for several years now (linux instead) and my wifes hard drive will not boot up. She uses XP. I can use Ultimate Boot Disc to see the files, but dont know how to transfer them. So, I know the data is still intact. I am able to boot into a live Ubuntu disc, but am not able to mount the XP hard drive. When I force mount it, it shows nothing on the disc.

    Is there any XP Recovery discs like there are for Vista? Anything would surely help me out right now! Thanks!

12. @Dave, can’t you put the disk into another computer that works, and just copy the files from there?

    If not, download the Linux SystemRescueCD and use that to boot:

    http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

    You can then use ntfs-3d to mount the disk to see the files. You can also set up networking and use that to transfer the files using rsync or ssh or another method.

    Best regards,
    Dave

13. Using the Vista recovery disc here I *did* get the drive bootable again! Thank you! The Vista recovery disc said it would only fix Vista systems… I ran it anyway and it worked. All data is backed up now before the HD fails again. Thanks for the help.

14. I’m pretty knew to this and wanted to know if this can help with Windows Vista Starter?

    Plz Help ;D I Appreciate it

15. First, thank you for the recovery disc, it’s a life saver.

    Every once in awhile randomly I get a failed boot and the following message (even after I’ve repaired my computer with your disc):

    Windows failed to start. a resent hardware or software change might be the cause.
    To fix the problem:

    1. Insert your Windows Installation disc and restart your computer.
    2. Choose your language settings, and then click “Next”.
    3. Click “Repair your computer”.

    If you do not have this disc, contact your Systems Administrator or the computer manufacturer for assistance.

    FILE: \Boot\BCD
    Status: 0xc000000f
    Info: An error occurred while attempting to read or Boot configuration data.

    To boot my computer I use your recovery disc again and all works fine.

    Is there a cause for these random boot failures? If so what should I be looking for?

    I’m running Windows Vista, Home Premium .

16. @Roger, I actually have the same problem, and haven’t been able to fix it. I have a Toshiba laptop and have been using the rescue disc every few weeks to fix it. It is either a hardware error or a driver error, but haven’t had time to narrow it down.

    If you search on Google for the error, we’re not the only ones having the problem:

    http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=FILE%3A%20\Boot\BCD%200xc000000f

    Start out with a chkdsk run of your hard disk to narrow down the possibility that there is a hardware or sector problem wit the disk. You might also try and run the manufacturer’s disk test/verification program to make sure.

    You might also check out support.microsoft.com for further information. Here is one that might be helpful:

    http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/thread/6b00ed7d-3c69-4ebe-b1e6-4d8225bd4232

    Best regards,
    Dave

17. Thanks a Million!!! Never recovered a Windows version quicker or better!

18. thanks a bunch, you guys saved me also!

19. Help, anyone!
    I am extremely angry with Microsoft for once again sending out updates that seem to be only in beta mode and which have completely messed up my son’s laptop – can’t even get to his desktop now.
    He’s running Vista on an Advent laptop and agreed yesterday to download and install Microsoft’s latest Service Pack update. After an hour of waiting it said the update had failed, followed by ‘reverting changes, do not turn off your computer’. 26hrs later it still says the same message, despite booting in safe mode, running a repair disk (didnt work), and attempting to do a System Restore via advanced tools. A message comes up to say there are no System Restore points on his laptop, and after searching the net have read elsewhere that this update actually removes any restore point previously made!
    What on earth is going on. I have spent all day today and last night on this, and its abysmal that such a multi-billion dollar company can screw around like this.
    So even if I can work out the instructions on here for using the ISO/torrent fix, where will a restore point be found if MS have wiped it?

    Thanks,

20. @birdlife, sorry to hear you’re having such difficulty. Unfortunately, I don’t think this rescue CDROM will help you. It’s really only to recover systems that have difficulty booting due to missing bootsector and/or MBR issues, not actual software problems with the system.

    If Microsoft actually wiped the restore point, then I’d say it’s probably been deleted permanently.

    I think you would have to provide more information on what the actual problem is with the system. In my experience, it’s rare that trying to go to a restore point actually works anyway.

    Best regards,
    Dave

21. Hi Dave,
    Thanks for the prompt reply, and as its not booting up perhaps the ISO fix might work. But I have no more information to give, because the constant message simply says “Service Pack failed, reverting changes.Do not turn off your computer”.
    Not much to go on is it.
    On searching the net, I found a whole torrent (no pun intended!) of hacked-off people who have had exactly the same thing happen to them. One guy said he’d been on the phone to MS for nearly 4hrs only to be finally told he must have a hardware error. Yeah, right.
    I had a similar thing happen to me some while back with XP and SP3, but I was able to roll back to SP2. My son doesn’t have this option. Its a complete disgrace for an OS company to offload software onto the general public that has the potential to damage or completely destroy their system.
    I am emailing MS, let you know if I get a valid reply or find a way out of this nightmare.

    Thanks,

22. I am getting the “Windows cannot open the required file D:\Sources\Install.win. The file does not exist….” when I tried to boot from the disc. I entered the Product Activation Code that is found on the sticker at the bottom of my VAIO laptop. Can anyone help me on this issue? I see a lot of people have posted on this but I couldn’t find a feasible solution.

    Thank you all so much!

23. @Jeni, you cannot use this CDROM to install Vista. It can only be used for the recovery portion of the process.

    What problem are you having that requires you to install Vista?

    Best regards,
    Dave

24. @birdlife, unless the error relates to a boot record issue, and doesn’t get to the loading windows stage, the disc won’t help. If your computer begins to load windows and then fails, I don’t think this recovery disc will help.

    Please do let us know how you make out.

    Best regards,
    Dave

25. Dave–

    I assume I should reply to your reply here?

    I have a Sony VAIO VGN and it’s crashing all over the place. I can’t even finish a powerpoint presentation without it saying (Not Responding). It’s completely stochastic as to when the sound (speakers and mic) works. I’m really aggravated by it and wanted to just wipe the whole system and start anew. (not even sure if that’s a good idea at this point).

    Can you advise?

    Thank you,
    Jeni

26. @Jeni, do you have the original disc that came with the laptop? If so, that should give you the ability to reinstall much easier than trying to install from scratch using a regular Vista disc. For that, it requires some expertise, as you’ll likely have to download and install hardware drivers for your sound card, network, display, printer, etc, and set it all up again. Not a pleasant experience.

    Is the system any better when running in Safe Mode? If you haven’t tried this, press the F8 key immediately after your system tries to boot. You should then be prompted with a menu where you can choose Safe Mode, which loads only a specific set of capabilities that are necessary for your computer to function. This will eliminate much of the other non-critical programs. If your computer still runs slowly, then you may have a different problem.

    Start with seeing if you can check for viruses. Go to something like symantec.com and do their online virus scan to see if you have any viruses, even if you have a virus scanner already running on your PC. Then go to malwarebytes.com and download their spyware/malware scanner to see if you’ve been infected there. That would certainly cause your system to run slowly.

    There are also thousands of resources on the Internet to help you troubleshoot why your system is running slowly that are far better equipped than this site. support.microsoft.com might be a good place for you to start, too.

    Best regards,
    Dave

27. I’m having any issue with Vista not booting on my laptop, and want to make sure this can do what I need it to. At first I could startup recovery to come up, and access the command prompt, but now it won’t even go that far. No booting in Safe Mode or anything. I got an error one time saying something about the boot file missing the required information.

    Thanks

28. @Jax Reaper, @Jeremy, you should learn to be more specific in your description of the problem. Saying “something about the boot file missing the required information” is very vague for us to try and give you accurate information.

    It does look like the rescue disc will help you. It can’t really cause any harm, so I suggest you download and try it.

    Regards,
    Dave

29. Sorry about the vagueness, but that’s essentially all it it told me; aside from techniques to fix the problem that I had tried previously to seeing the screen. I tried the 32-bit version, but it said it wasn’t compatible, but I thought that’s what I was running. For some reason my laptop has two different Program Files folders, one of them followed by (x86), which is another reason I thought that one would work. I’ll try the other one, hopefully it downloads a little faster than the 32-bit version did.

30. OK the 64-bit disk is working, but startup repair can’t fix my computer. My computer doesn’t have any restore points, so that’s out of the question. When I open a command prompt and run chkdsk it lists 4 index entries that are incorrect:

    wermgr.exe
    NCProv.dll
    ncprov.mof
    ncsi.mof

    When I run chkdsk /f it gets about 75% done and stops saying:

    “Failed to transfer lodded messages to the event log with status 50.”

    When I run chkdsk again it tells the same 4 files are incorrect. Any ideas?

31. @JaX, looks like very bad news:

    http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vistahardware/thread/0eacd1bf-4357-4a47-b135-e96f1177eec1

    Good luck.
    Regards,
    Dave

32. On closer examination it appears that chkdsk /f did in fact finish, and deleted and recovered the 4 files I mentioned above. They still came up as errors when I ran chkdsk again. I was able to replace all of the files manually, and all of them except ncsi.mof came were no longer showing up as incorrect. I don’t know if this has anything to do with my laptop not booting or not.

    I noticed when I tried to boot a blue screen flashed and then the computer would restart, and disabling auto-reboot, I was able to get the screen to say up.

    It says the usually stuff about a problem being detected and windows being shut down to prevent damage to you computer, to check any new hardware or software installations, disable BIOS memory options like caching or shadowing, and to boot into Safe Mode, which gives me the same blue screen. The technical information is:

    *** STOP: 0x000000123 (0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)

    I’ve searched around for what that means and discovered the first part means physical memory dump, but any solutions I find involve actually using windows. I really don’t want to have to do a factory recovery. I know I can save some of my files to a thumb drive using command prompt but I would rather not lose anything. I will do this if I must, but I’m not quite that desperate at the moment.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

33. Nevermind. I fixed it. Not really sure what I did but I got windows to boot finally. Couldn’t have done it without the recovery disk though.

    Thanks!

34. Ive downloaded both the 36 bit and 64 bit and wrote them to two different CDs, tried them both and got the same result: i start up the Hp laptop and the nothing different happens, the windows boot manager screen still comes up with “An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.”

    Am I supposed to do something extra to get the disc to load up or what?

    thnx in advanced
    -Kam

35. @KAM, you need to configure your laptop to boot from the CDROM drive instead of from the hard disk first. Most computers use the F2 or F12 key. While the computer is initially powering on, tap the F2 or F10 key repeatedly, and before it actually boots, it should prompt you with a menu that lets you select the media from which to boot. If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to find out what the actual function key is that needs to be pressed on system start directly from HP on their website for your model.

    Best regards,
    Dave

36. Ive burned the recovery down on a disk and ran it on my laptop. It works fine until i press repair my computer and the window with system recovery options pop up it tells me to choose a OS to repair but i dont see any.

37. my computer is stuck on “configuring updates 3 of 3” it’s been there for a couple days..I unplugged the computer from the wall waited tried to start up agin same thing happens..I tried to run in “safe mode” and the other 3 modes nothing happens..I tried using system recovery and went back a week ago nothing happens..It keeps rebooting then goes back the the 3 of 3 configuring update…I tried using this disc and did the “system repair” but it says it cannot fix the problem..I tried using the command prompt and typing in the above commands and it says not a valid specified path…I tried changing the drive from “x” to C but it will not let change the drive it’s reading the restore disc from….I have my old drive thankfully and can get online but I cannot fix this problem…can anyone help or point me where to go..I went on other site with the info I posted and tried that boot disc but it will not work and after all this it still goes back”configuring updates 3 of 3″ stuck at 0% for hours…help me please…

38. Hi Dave
    ,
    Re the Vista failed service pack update that’s left my son’s laptop unworkable, I complained to MS and got this unapologetic response: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistarepair/thread/04537e4a-22b0-420d-929f-3ee6c6bed9c1

    Looks to me like we have two options, a) slave the laptop to my pc (major headache for me)
    and hope something can be rescued, and b) BUY an external harddrive (major dent in his student pocket). Personally I’d rather put it towards an AppleMac aafter this latest fiasco from MS.

    **tj** – if you follow the instructions from Microsoft on the link above, it may help you out …. good luck!

39. that’s the kicker birdlife..I did that and nothing was fixed…same 3 of 3 cycle..

40. tj- what, you slaved it and its still no go? Well that’s a b*mmer, as MS’s third option is for the general public to trot off to a computer repair shop for them to attempt to undo the error they’ve inflicted on us. Someone’s laughing somewhere, and its not me.

41. Thanks for your helpful links in response to my last posting.

    I have noticed I get the black screen only after Microsoft has downloaded an update for my Vista operating system and reboots my computer.

    Is this something that is being done to make us frustrated enough to upgrade to Windows7?

42. I’m attempting to slave today..But I fear I might screw it up since the files I need are on the drive that won’t update….And the computer I’m suing only has 17gigs memory..I’ll give it a go….This blows majorly..If I can’t get this going I have to pay with money I don’t have to fix something they did to my computer..that’s BS any way you cut it..I should save my receipt and send it to them to pay me back for it…These computer repair outfits charge A LOT of money to fix something I might just be missing..

43. Exactly, tj – major hassle, and likely to cost. Can just see MS asking us to please send them our bills – I’d laugh but its likely to come out a tad hysterical. Please post how you get on with slaving it, I may attempt it tonight but also only have limited memory on my desktop pc.

44. IF I understnad ocrectly the repair/in-place upgrade wil kepe my documents, but i’l have to re-insalt any programs i’ve instlaled since then, ios that correct?

45. slave is not an option…the cables do not match to what my drive has..oh well…I gonna try once more before I give in a pay someone to fix this damn thing..

46. Bad news, tj.
    Slaving it won’t work for us either, there’s nowhere near enough memory on my desktop pc to do that and it would take ******* forever to transfer data anyway. Can’t even load a different OS onto the laptop, as that would wipe all his stuff that’s irreplaceable. Need a boot disk that works, then try and see where all his stuff is stored, then save it to an external drive – just had to buy one online at £70! – then reload or change the OS. Should go public with this, no doubt MS would then get around to issuing a patch long after the damage is done.

47. I’m not sure that i totaly understand this. I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 0769 release with Vista Home Premium. I accidentaly formated the service partition wich contained the restore files and i don’t have any recovery disks. This means that if i boot from this disk it will conect me to a server and will instal original factory vista?

48. I had a problem with dual boot between Debian Lenny and Windows Vista in my Laptop HP 1212LA.

    Error: Archivo \Windows\System32\winload.exe Estado 0xc000000e

    I could repair the problem with this wonderful tool.

    Thanks a lot!

49. Dude..I need recovery disc of SONY VAIO FZ serires VGN15G .
    it came with windows vista home premium..
    and after 1 year I downgraded it to XP..
    but its brightness and AV controls dont work
    I searched many drivers but very few worked..
    I m in a real need ,,,can u guys please help me…
    Actually I had one recovery but it is scratched…
    guys please help..

50. I am trying to download the Windows Vista REcovery Disc 32-bit version torrent and when I click on the link it opens a file of mostly jibberish. Can you fix the link please?