Windows Vista Recovery Disk and Repair Disc Download

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1. Hi,
   I downloaded the iso and verified it. I have burnt it to disc using imgburn. When boot off it, it says it is loading files with the white progress bar. This seems to complete and it shows the normal windows splash page. I then have a black screen while the hard drive seems to be working away. A cursor then appears with a blue background but no options available. Do you have any suggestions?

   Adam

2. Thank you!

   It took me 3 1/2 hours to do it but the point is, i am not a computer guru but i DID IT! It took two failed CD’s…one didn’t work; one PARTLY got me there; and the third one worked. Yep, people, follow these instuctions to the TEE! And it will work!

3. I downloaded and extracted the folders, but where is the ISO ?

   I have the two folders titled : boot and sources

   I dont see a ISO file in either folder ? Help ?

4. Help please

   It seems like a lot of people get good use of this image, i do not.

   After keying the product key in, i get an error message e:\sources\install.wim do not exist.

   And when i look on the disk there is no install.wim only a boot.wim.

   What am i doing wrong.

   PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP :'( :'( :'(

5. Hi,

   I seem to be struggling. I have downloaded the torrent via utorrent and having unzipped it using 7zip i have: these folders

   [BOOT]
   boot
   sources

   and a bootmgr file.

   Where is the ISO file that i need to mount?

   Cheers

6. i have an e-machine is the amd 64 processor x86 or x64? i ask cause i dled and burned the 32bit(x86) version and it runs fine but when i try to input the vista productkey from the back of my tower it says the key is not valid, so do i have the right version? BTW if it helps any this emachine has the “PC Angel” Recovery partition on it. can’t access it at all.

7. Thank you! These instructions and rebuilt disc saved my a$$. Once the file was burned to DVD, I was up and running in less than 5 min.

8. paragon boot manager stuck on my vista,
   someone tell me to use the recovery,but it wont work…

   any ideas???

9. hello guys i have one pc (which is not working ) and one mac computers so my pc has startup problems , and from what i understand is i have to burn this recovery file and insert it in my cd drive .and i need to ask some qs aswell :-

   – is it possible to download it to usb and boot from the usb
   – and if it is not possible from usb , does it make any difference to burn it in mac computer
   – and finally does it work because there are a lot complain in this site?

   Thanks everybody in advance

10. It work for me and is unbelievable :D:D:D, I had Vista Home Premium preinstalled , and only this solution seems to do the trick 😉 My problem was the appearance of the blank screen with only the cursor in the middle of the screen, after many hours ,I found this site and managed to work things out.Many thanks and good luck to all !!!!!!!!

11. Hello, I have a slightly hard question.My computer is a Japanese computer FMV BIBLO . Do you think this recovery disk will work to recover my operational system? Or it s better not to try..? Thanks for the help.

12. Hello, I wanted to ask if this recovery disk will work for me with a japanese computer. Will it recover my files if i have a japanese operation system…? Thanks for help!

13. I’ve used Imgburn and MagicIso to burn the recovery disk (32 bit), but everytime I get past the windows green-bar loading green; the screen freezes at a black screen, NO mouse, nothing. I’ve tested the disks on my XP machine and they boot fine. Its just on my vista laptop it constantly freezes at the black screen. Can anyone provide any assistance?

14. Do you have to back up files before doing this? Will I have to reinstall all my programs? When it boots from the DVD a screen comes up asking me which language to install. I don’t want to loose files.

15. Thank you very much sir

16. I burned the image as a bootable disk. I inserted the disk held the f12 key down and I get absolutely nothing. Nothing is booting from the disk. My computer is not responding to the disk drive. Huh!

17. Where/what is the product key for the x86 ISO? I cannot use the disc to reinstall vista because it needs the key?

18. Hi all,

    I made a copy of the recovery disk and ran it on my laptop.
    When startup repair attempts.I get a error advising “cannot repair this computer automatically”

    When I go into command prompt and try chkdsk , it runs, chkdsk /f, I get disk is file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

    C: I get the same message

    Any ideas anyone

    Thanks for any help

19. I made the recovery disk, but when I boot using it, it goes into a loop at the point where you select which operating system to repair. It has already identified the operating system on the C drive, but I can not select it because the loop keeps searching for windows installations .

20. I have a HP Slimline PC with a bad HDD. HP says that I need their HDD becasuse it is tattooed, and want to charge me $275 for a 250gb hdd.

    I plan on buying a new HDD at local store. Will this image do the full vista install? If not, where can I find the new isntall CD? I have a Vista license key from HP

    regards, Dave

21. hey “G”

    wel um…i had mint in one of my drives…all i needd is get back my disk , take the controls from ‘GRUB’….repair my ‘mbr’…
    i tried ‘SUPER GRUB DISK’…. ‘bootable’ and ‘exe’ both…none did the job..!!!
    exe just loads files and do nothing.
    any solutions sir!!

22. Hi, guys!
    Yahoo Messenger tricked me into receiving a file from a chat, a fake chat, and Windows Defender told me there was a threat. I didn’t open it. Closed the computer and now it won’t boot up. All I get is a blue screen with a movable mouse. 🙁

    I downloaded and successfully copied the Recovery Files, twice, just in case. I have a Compaq Presario CQ50. I changed the boot process to DVD/CD first, but I get the same: a blue screen with a mouse.

    Can anyone help?

23. Thank you! You saved my life!

24. hi i press the vista recovery for 32 bit and i get akll these symbols, can someone help me cause my emachine didnt come with a cd to reinstall windows vista cause i did a systemn restore… and it made it have no oprerating system or w.e and i am trying to reboot the whole system

25. tnx from SLOVENIA !!!

26. Hey.. i have a question..

    after i’ve tried to boot from the recovery disc.. it has directed me to the windows setup… n it prompted me to choose either to boot with safe mode, safe mode with networking or safe mode with command prompt.. i’m rather clueless of which to choose.. can anyone pls help… would really appreciate your help.. thanks in advance…:)

27. Hi.. I have a question here…

    I’ve tried using the recovery disc and after i clicked the repair the computer.. the system prompted me for system restore… however.. it (system restore) has been running for like more than four hours or so… is that normal? Or does that mean that i’m using the wrong Bit disc (because i’m using the 32-Bit)?

    Would appreciate if anyone can help… Thanks in advance..:)

28. Thanks a lot you guys! that was very helpful.

29. Hi,
    I dl Vista x64 recovery, but the Md5 checksum isn’t listed here or anywhere else. Mine was: 6a2c38312c5391d39cc0d429a1f123a3
    Could you confirm, please?

    Thanks a lot!

30. Downloading via bittorrent is guaranteed to be corruption-free. Your bittorrent client automatically checks the hashes.

31. i getting a wim install missing mesagge is it i need to renistall vista?

32. thank you.

33. just wondering? if utorrent checks the hash and guarantees it’s correct, why does the hash number under the general tab in utorrent differ from what winMD5sum detects. for instance,the vista recovery iso’s hash is aff5ceef6dbf202cc1beb9fc81e8d02b which is the same as what Computer Guru states, utorrents tab says something completely different? i hope that makes sense to some1 as I’m not to good at this kind of thing? anyway thanks for ur help, this seems like a really good site. i will let you know how the vista recovery goes! thanks again

34. The hash that uTorrent shows is the torrent hash, not the MD5 hash 🙂

    There are many different types of hashes, all more or less reliable for this purpose… But you need to make sure you’re comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges.

35. Alright i guess i’ll see if it works…thanks.

36. hi…

    i have successfully down load this via imgburn… then i insert, and it says click any key..then came up the screen of install bla bla bla, i select repair… then it came the window repair start up… then… it shut down… so i turn on the pc again but the cd is still in, so it asked again to select any key for the disc to run, before i could do that straight away the ‘restore…’ or start window normally… so i click the restore… as it repairing.. it says “start up cannot be repair” ….what should i do? do i took the cd out or run the cd again??

37. Thanks! It worked well. I have a Lenovo Y410 that i was about to recycle until i saw your recommendations. I tried it out and it work just fine, fast, secure and easy.
    Thank you very much

38. hey i ve an dell studio 15.5 so in my laptop the dell factory restore option was not coming now and i want that option so wat i will do to get it back plzzzzz help me …….

39. Rioght whats with this: I donwload the file and I have done everything like you said and when I boot from the CD it just says the instal.wim file is missing. And despite people already complaining about this on the fourm no_on has given a solid answer why it does this or how to fix it.

    Please can someone tell me what o do I really dont want to reformat.

40. “Again, for the last time:

    If you get an install.wim error, it’s because you’re trying to install Vista with this CD. That’s not allowed. You need to use the “Repair your computer” link on the screen before.”

    I need help with this problem eerytime I put in the CD it comes up wtih this error: install.vim missing beofre I can get the repair option. And despite alot of people puttin this up as a problem you have just thought that it ou fault for trying to instal windows. Would someone please let me know the way to fix this problem.

    AGAIN: I AM GETTING AN ERROR THAT SAYS INSTALL.VIM IS MISSING BEFORE I GET TO THE REPAIR OPTION OR EVEN ANY MENU AT ALL. THE DISK LOADS UP FINE BUT ERROR JUST COMES UP AFTER IT HAS LOADED.

41. I tried to compress my files and forgot i had done it and closed down my pc. When i turned it back on it kept saying bootmgr press ctrl, alt & del. made a restore disc put it in loaded it up. clicked repair system. gave me my system recovery options which is my windows vista. clicked next then startup repair but says there is no problems found but obviously there is otherwise it would start up. tried doing system restore with 4 different points but still when i turn on the pc gives that same bootmgr message. anyone help me? Ive done exactly what this tutorial says.

42. Thank you for restoring my computer! Your startup disc was very helpful. Everything appears to be in working order now!

43. Thanks helped alot, sorted my office pc problems.

44. Your awesome, I got that winload.exe corrupted error, and your site fixed it by following these instructions!

45. Hey guys… after spending a lot of time reading through the forum, I have found a problem I can’t seem to fix. My Gateway laptop recently had system registry errors due to corrupt files. Like many, Vista was installed on the machine when I purchased it and I had no recovery CD. I followed the steps and have burnt a 32-bit CD to begin restorations.

    However, when I boot from the CD, it loads the Window’s files completely. Then it continues to a loading screen with just a green loading bar for Windows. Shortly after, the screen is black and my computer seems to have quit processing. The only related post I have found is:

    Gray
    Nov. 26th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    I’ve used Imgburn and MagicIso to burn the recovery disk (32 bit), but everytime I get past the windows green-bar loading green; the screen freezes at a black screen, NO mouse, nothing. I’ve tested the disks on my XP machine and they boot fine. Its just on my vista laptop it constantly freezes at the black screen. Can anyone provide any assistance?

    I did not see any solutions to Gray’s problem in this post and am having a difficult time searching for related posts. If anyone can assist me, I would greatly appreciate it.

46. To clarify, I have found images on your website that can better assist you in knowing the problems I am dealing with. On the Windos Vista Installation page (found at http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/G/Installing+Windows+Vista), I get the first 3 black screens shown that load the Windows files.

    However, the problem is that when the third image is done, the setup fails to continue onward to the colorful Language Select screen. The screen is just black, stuck in between the two stages.

    Is this a problem with the disc I am burning? As far as I know, problems burning the ISO file to a disc will result in other problems, such as the disc not being recognized or not loading the Windows files. I do not want to keep burning additional CD’s if this is not the problem.

    With that being said, could this mean that my hard drive is faulty or damaged, since the files seem to load from the disc but fail to apply to the hard drive?

    Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, especially the ones that will not run me in circles all day. 😛

47. this wont work for me. I changed the BIOS to run CD first but then it just starts the hard drive. Could it be because i burnt the CD through a mac?

48. Thank you so much, this was really helpfull, you saved me. keep on helping people THAnK YOU

49. I use grub so I can get on ubuntu anf vista, will that have any effect on this disk?

50. hello
    My computer crashed for the first time and right on Christmas day and also the day my friends decided to throw a birthday party for me(my b-day is the 26th) so I really need a miracle for me
    I will address the problem so I don’t have to find out if the disc works or not

    I wanted to make a video for youtube to see how I roll so I downloaded an editing system and an audio recorder and then I tried putting it on youtube but it wouldn’t work so I gave up. Then I played a game and it froze. I tried doing every thing I usually do when a game freezes but that didn’t work. I tried turning off my computer but it wouldn’t. Then I pulled the plug and put it back in. It worked and it did all that mandatory stuff for Vista. I tried my game again and then I got the blue screen of death. It restarted my computer and it got stuck on the window’s loading screen. Again I pulled the plug and restarted it but a blue screen came up with just the mouse. I turned off my computer but it ended up on the black screen this time and every time I turn it off, it goes back to it and I can’t do anything. I am speaking from a different computer
    so help plz