Tips & Tricks: Windows Vista Recovery Disk
Do you miss the safe mode in Windows XP?
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta version is already being tested by beta testers and as such it was reported that Windows Vista now has the feature to create Windows Vista Recovery Disk.
The Windows Vista Recovery Disc allows you to boot up Windows Vista with only the most basic feature set enough to fix errors in the operating system. This sounds like booting your computer up in safe mode just like in Windows XP.
You can access the recover disk creation through: Start menu>>All programs>>Maintenance>>Create a Recovery Disc. The completion of the Windows Recovery Disk would take around 5 minutes.
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11 opinions for Tips & Tricks: Windows Vista Recovery Disk
Stewart McKeen
Feb 27, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I don’t have or want Vista SP1, not yet anyway, but there must be a way to create a recovery disc. I recently had a crash, where parts of the MBR were wiped out. Cure: reformat and loss of lots of things. Original Vista Home Premium disc would not/could not repair or boot.
Infoweb Services
Mar 5, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Hi,
I’ve been looking forward to get this facility otherwise repairing Vista is really troublesome. Especially when you have a Vista OEM DVD supplied with system.
Gary
Mar 21, 2008 at 5:31 am
I am running SP1 final and it has recdisc.exe, but the file does nothing.
Apparently MS did not give us this feature.
Also there is nothing on MS site about it.
Stronghold Crusader Extreme
Mar 24, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I see, its quite useful.
Mr. favour
Mar 31, 2008 at 11:35 am
This is fantastic! keep it up.
thank you.
Jack Weber
Apr 7, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I wish I had a way to downgrade from Windows Vista Home Basic to Windows XP. Unfortunately the only versions I have of XP are embedded in my desktop and laptop PC’s, both early versions of XP which have been upgraded via SP-2 and are quite servicible. My son made the mistake of sending my wife the Vista machine, a Toshiba Satellite A 135 with Intel Pentium dual core processor, 1.73 GHz with 446 MB of remaining RAM after the software is loaded. The problems with this system are as follows:
1. It is EXTREMELY SLOW both in loading the operating system and in loading the applications. This even applies to loading and and deleting objects from the Recycle Bin, which is also EXTREMELY SLOW.
2. The Windows Picture Manager that comes with Vista is also EXTREMELY SLOW in downloading pictures from my Kodak and Argus digital cameras, and does not allow me to select those pictures I do not wish to include on the computer. This makes for DIFFICULT FILE MANAGEMENT and it is necessary to download all the photos from my camera, then delete the ones I do not want on that file. This then requires me to delete them from the Recycle Bin, another slow process.
3. Downloaded photos seem to be placed on the computer in RANDOM SEQUENCE, not in the order which they were taken and stored in the cameras, another problem which requires relabeling and redating them after they are on the computer.
4. I use the Netscape Navigator 9 version of Firefox on all my computers because the latest version of Mozilla Firefox will not show many of the pictures of objects on ebay. This is not a problem with IE7 which I have on all my computers but like many other Windows users, I have found that I get much fewer lockups and crashes with the Mozilla product than the Microsoft browser. Of course, it is nice to have the IE7 as some video graphics won’t run on the Mozilla product.
I am not a high powered computer user, using these WinTel machines mostly for viewing pictures, as word processors, and for internet applications. My first four computers were Amiga 1000, 2500, 3000 and 4000 machines and were much more fun to use, much faster, and more reliable than what I now use. I can still surf the internet at relatively high speed on the Amigas using a modem, but no one has developed a Java compatible browser or software to adapt to high speed broadband and wireless applications. Too bad!
artic-choke
Apr 8, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Vista died for me and now the recovery partition is corrupt. I can’t use a recovery disk because it wants the stupid Admin password!
Brian
Apr 11, 2008 at 1:41 am
I just downloaded and installed SP1 and cannot find any recdisc.exe or any reference to a recovery disk. Anyone have any further info about this new feature that apparently did not make it to the final product?
Shine
Apr 12, 2008 at 5:29 am
You can also download a free recovery disk from MS without needing the actual CD
http://thinkabdul.com/2008/02/25/download-windows-vista-recovery-disk-from-microsoft-without-installation-media/
gibbo
Apr 16, 2008 at 7:36 am
look i realy need help my laptop uninstalled windows and i dont know why my dad lost the backups can any of you help
D. B. Cooper
May 30, 2008 at 4:43 am
I spent the day wrestling with an unbootable Vista laptop cuz I was dumb enough to install XP to an external hard drive, just to see what would happen. Of course, what would happen is that my machine became impossible to boot. A friend found this for me and the CD I installed it on is worth its weight in gold. I booted the Vista laptop with it and repaired the system in a flash.
The key phrase in the recovery log was:
“Boot sector code for system disk partition is corrupt. … Repair action: Boot sector repair. … Result: Completed successfully.”
LOVE IT!
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