Add WIndows Recovery?

[mtissington]

I have Windows 7 installed (with the System Reserved partition)

How can I add a boot option to boot the Windows Recover?

 

[mqudsi]

Download a copy of our Recovery CDs from here: Windows Vista Recovery Disc Download The NeoSmart Files

Copy the .ISO to somewhere on your PC. Use EasyBCD to add a "Boot from ISO" entry that points to that file.

 

[mtissington]

Thanks ... it does not work when booting from USB ... I get the message press a key to boot from dvd and then windows generates a fault.

A little more information for you .... the 32-bit repair works great ... again this seems to be an issue with the 64-bit repair crashing.

It starts booting, I get the bar that says it's loading files and then it faults with a msg that it can't find ntskrnl.

 

[mqudsi]

Try copying the .wim file from within both images to the USB, then add it as a WinPE 2.0 entry.

 

[mtissington]

Thanks for the idea - same problem, 64-bit version crashes just after "Starting WIndows" saying that it can't find ntoskrnl

 

[mqudsi]

Try extracting it to the same layout that it was on the ISO. (I mean the same folder structure) then add it as a PE entry?

 

[mtissington]

I tried that too ... seems to be something funny with the 64-bit version (maybe related to my other issue with not being able to boot the 64-bit setup of windows 7)

 

[mqudsi]

It's definitely one and the same - the recovery disk is really a stub of the Windows setup, so if you could get that one to work, this one would naturally follow suite.

 

[mtissington]

OK I'm not sure what you are saying, so booting 64-bit Windows 7 iso/wim from USB is a problem then ?
Can you fix it?

 

[mqudsi]

It seems to be. I don't think the fault is with EasyBCD, more likely with the Windows Boot Manager itself. I'll test it (too) and get back to you