No. I spent a lot of time, tell me what to do now, or at least how to insure myself against such situations in the future, preferably without using paid programs Reserve copy data. Ilya.
How to restore Windows 7 system
Unfortunately, there are many reasons for this problem, ranging from incorrectly written drivers, harmful effects of a virus, errors file system and ending with our erroneous actions when working with a computer, there is no need to be afraid of such problems, you need to learn how to deal with them effectively. Let's think how to restore windows 7 system, and we will also insure ourselves in the future against possible troubles using backup and recovery tools built into the operating system. We will learn how to restore Windows 7 without using third party programs for backup even when the System Recovery Options are not loaded and the F-8 button will be useless.
- Friends, if our article does not help you, then check out others on this topic, for example: in it you will learn how to restore a non-bootable system using various utilities command line, the first is Bootrec.exe with the commands /FixMbr and /FixBoot or the bootsect /NT60 SYS utility, as well as Bootrec.exe with the /RebuildBcd parameter, these utilities can be launched from the recovery environment or from the Windows 7 recovery disk. Another article will teach you restore the damaged or deleted bootloader of the seven bootmgr itself. The article will show you how to restore your operating system when system recovery is disabled and much more.
- If Windows 7 freezes on boot or suddenly reboots, or may suddenly show blue screen with an error, then perhaps all these problems are due to numerous file system errors. How to fix the situation even when the operating system does not boot due to these errors is written in this article.
- Well, eight articles from the section will give you a detailed understanding of all the built-in Windows 7 recovery tools: restore points, previous versions files, creating a system image and a recovery disk, and so on. So, let's begin.
Windows 7 has quite a powerful and good tool in its arsenal -> Recovery environment, which is created automatically when installing Windows 7 in a hidden partition and contains five other tools that solve numerous problems and problems.
- Note: If you learn how to use Windows 7 recovery tools correctly, and this is not difficult, then you can do without additional and paid data backup programs.
You can launch the recovery tool by pressing the F-8 button on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer. After this, a menu will open in front of you: Additional boot options: Troubleshoot your computer, then Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Boot network drivers etc.
The first thing to do is apply Startup recovery(Automatically fix problems that prevent Windows from starting)
Required digression: After pressing the F-8 button when booting the computer, you may not have the > item, but only Safe Mode and so on, the question arises why.
When installing Windows 7, a recovery environment partition is created automatically and is located in the root of the drive (C:) in the Recovery folder. You can also see in the Disk Management window - separate, hidden section hard drive, its capacity is only 100 MB, it is used to store boot configuration files (BCD) and the system boot loader (bootmgr file).
You can see it under Computer->Management->Disk Management. Under no circumstances should you delete this partition (many people delete it out of ignorance), otherwise you will not be able to start the recovery environment, that is, the item Troubleshooting your computer you won’t, and in more severe cases you simply won’t boot the system.
In the lower screenshot you can see another hidden partition, with a capacity of 9.02 GB, this is a hidden recovery partition with factory settings on my laptop, yours may be larger or smaller. It’s also better not to delete it; if necessary, you can always restore Windows 7 from it.
What should you do if you do not have a partition with a recovery environment and when you press the F-8 button in the Additional boot options menu, the Troubleshooting computer option does not appear? How then to restore the Windows 7 system??
An installation disk with the Windows 7 operating system can help here. You can run the recovery tool by booting from the original installation disk Windows 7, by selecting the item at the very beginning System Restore. If you don’t have an installation disk, then you can use it (you can make it in any running Windows 7) in five minutes, then you can also boot from it and do the same.
So we finally got to the System Recovery Options, either using the F-8 button and the Troubleshooting item, or the Windows 7 installation disk or the Windows 7 Recovery Disk.
In the System Restore Tools Selection menu, select the first one:
Startup recovery-> there will be an analysis of faults that interfere with the normal loading of Windows 7 and their further correction for the normal loading and functioning of the operating system. During the process, we may be warned that problems have been detected in the boot parameters, click Fix and restart.
System Restore->using this function, we can, if we have it enabled, roll back to the time when our Windows 7 worked and loaded perfectly, everything is simple here.
->This is the tool I personally use; if used skillfully, it can be replaced paid programs on data backup, if interested, read on.
What's good about it? It will help when you don't have the original Windows 7 installation disk and you've deleted the hidden partition with your laptop's factory settings, but that's not all.
Sometimes there are situations when, for various reasons or due to the actions of a virus, you will not be able to load the operating system at all, or many people ask How to restore Windows 7 system even if the menu with Additional boot options is also unavailable. Should I reinstall the operating system again?
Therefore, immediately after installing Windows 7 on your laptop or computer, we create using this function-> Restoring a system image, an archived image of our Windows 7 on the hard drive, we take care of it. You must create a Windows 7 Recovery Disk (read below), it will help you use the System Image if the Advanced Boot Options menu does not load.
Let's go to Start -> Control Panel->Archiving computer data.
Choose Creating a system image
Next, select Local disk on which we will store the system archive. In my case, Local disk (E:), if you have system unit some hard drives, then of course it is better to place the backup on the hard drive where the operating system is not installed.
Note: You may notice that I have two operating systems installed on my laptop, so the archiving program selected two Local disks.
Click Archive and the process of creating an archive with our Windows 7 will begin.
Created, it will look like this.
Now, if necessary, you can deploy the archive with Windows 7 to your computer in 20-30 minutes. It would be better if you additionally copy the archive with the system onto a portable one HDD, this way you will protect yourself doubly.
Let's imagine that we can't start Windows 7 and deploy the backup we created, let's do it together.
Let's launch Windows 7 Recovery Tool, by pressing the F-8 button on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer. The Advanced boot options menu opens, select Troubleshoot your computer.
Restoring a system image
Use the latest available system image
Of course, all our data is on Local disk, where the operating system is now being restored, will be deleted, so you can first boot from any Live CD and copy what you need.
How else can you restore your Windows 7 system? Of course, using the Windows 7 Recovery Disk. Let's create Recovery disk, which can be used to boot the computer, it will contain recovery tools that can be used to repair Windows 7 boot problems, as well as restore the operating system from the backup copy that we created in advance.
Important: The bitness of the system is important for the recovery disk, you can use a 32-bit recovery disk for any 32-bit Windows 7, and a 64-bit recovery disk for any 64-bit Windows 7.
Let's go again Backing up computer data
Create a system repair disk, insert the DVD into the drive, press
Create disk
When the Windows 7 Bootable Recovery Disk is ready, put it in a safe place.
To restore Windows 7 from a Recovery Disk, you basically don’t need any working operating system at all. You will only need to change the boot priority to the drive in the BIOS of your computer, insert the recovery disk into it and restore your Windows 7 using the archive. Many here can draw an analogy with data backup programs and this is correct, they work on the same principle, only Of course, their functionality is more convenient.
- If you don’t know how to change the boot priority in the BIOS, read our articles and
Recovering Windows 7 from a Recovery Disk. I show you how to do it. Let's say we're in trouble, we can't start Windows 7, when we press F-8 on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer, nothing happens. We cannot get to the menu with Additional boot options and an error message is displayed. In this case, the system archive on the hard drive is not available to us. This is exactly the kind of trouble that happened to our reader Ilya, who wrote us a letter asking for help.
In this situation, many people reinstall Windows 7 from scratch, but not you and me, because we have System Recovery Disk.
We insert it into the drive and reboot, set it to BIOS loading from the drive, as I said, the boot disk starts the System Recovery Options program.
Press Enter until the prompt to boot from the disk disappears.
Automatically, the recovery tool running from the disk will try to restore Windows 7 to start.
If nothing works, select any tool, for example, try Restoring your computer using a previously created operating system image.
We use the latest available system image
What other ways are there to restore Windows 7?
There is another little-known way to restore Windows 7 boot after a failure, and I’ll tell you about it. At first glance, it may seem difficult to many, but nevertheless it often helps me out.
The fact is, friends, that a very large part of the problems due to which you cannot boot Windows 7 lie in registry errors. And Windows 7 would not be Windows 7 if it did not have a mechanism that protects registry files. Such a mechanism exists and creates backup copies of the registry in the RegBack folder every 10 days, regardless of whether you have system recovery enabled or not.
If you can't solve problems with loading Windows 7 you should try replacing the existing (and apparently damaged) registry files from the Config folder archive files from the RegBack folder. To do this, we will have to boot the computer from the Windows 7 installation disk or the Windows 7 recovery disk.
Boot into the recovery environment, select the command line
and type in it – notepad , we get into Notepad, then File and Open.
We go into the real explorer, click My Computer. Now we need the system drive C:, attention, the drive letters here may be mixed up, but the system drive C: I think you can tell by the ones inside system folders Windows and Program Files.
We go to the folder C:\Windows\System32\Config, here are the active registry files, specify the File Type - All files and see our registry files, we also see the RegBack folder, in which every 10 days the Task Scheduler makes a backup copy of the registry keys.
So, we will replace the existing registry files from the Config folder backup files registry from the RegBack folder.
So, first of all, let’s delete from the C:\Windows\System32\Config folder the files SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM, which are responsible for all registry hives ( my advice - before deleting, copy the registry hives somewhere just in case)
and in their place we will copy and paste files with the same names, but from backup copy, that is, from the RegBack folder.
Friends, if this does not help, apply integrity restoration Windows files 7, if the operating system does not boot, it is done in exactly the same way as in
This article-instructions describes in detail how a Windows 10 recovery disk is formed. An example of using such media to return the “tens” to a functioning state is also considered in the event of a problem when the OS refuses to boot even in safe mode.
General concepts
From the very name of the drive it becomes clear that this media is intended for resuscitating the operating system or performing actions in it that cannot be performed under a running Windows 10 ( full reset, rollback to the previous state if the PC does not turn on, or restoring the “ten” from a previously created backup).
People who decide to switch to a new operating system often come across the concept of a recovery disk, but not everywhere there is information about what it is. In order to solve this problem, as well as to teach users how to create drives for resuscitating Windows, this article was written. The material is presented in such a way that a novice user will not have any questions regarding the creation of a tens resuscitation disk and its practical use.
By disk we mean a flash drive due to the relevance of the latter, despite the outdated name.
Create recovery media for Windows 10 using the Control Panel
Microsoft has provided a basic option for creating a flash drive for Windows recovery 10, slightly optimizing this mechanism, familiar with Windows 7. Since then, the principle has remained the same: a few clicks and a couple of minutes of waiting, and media created on another computer is also suitable for solving the problem, but in the case of using Windows image 10 of the same bit depth and OS edition.
1. Visit the Control Panel.
There are many ways here: executing the “control” command, using search string, Win menu → X, shortcut in a convenient place.
2. Select the value of the “View” field as “Large icons”, if it is different.
3. Call the “Recovery” applet.
Some of the following actions (such as the following) will require Administrator privileges or an account to perform them.
5. Decide whether to activate the reservation option system files to the Windows resume flash drive.
If the option is activated, the process will take longer due to copying a much larger amount of information to the media, but at the same time the Windows recovery procedure will be much simpler. Even when the system recovery image is missing or inoperative (after all, all necessary files present on the drive).
6. Connect the removable USB drive to the appropriate port, if it is not already connected.
Keep in mind that it will be formatted and information will be overwritten, so be sure to make a copy of it if necessary.
8. Wait for the copying process to complete.
The appearance of the following window signals the completion of file copying.
9. Click “Done”.
That's all, the Windows 10 recovery disk is ready for use.
After booting from a ready-made drive, using Boot Menu or by changing the priority of boot devices, you can visit the recovery environment, having received all the necessary capabilities for this.
Please note: the drive for resuscitating the operating system can be used as a regular flash drive if there is free space on it. In order not to affect the files and directories located on it, you should change their attributes to “Hidden” through the properties of the target objects or create a directory for your own files.
Example of using bootable recovery media for Windows 10
Using the created media, as opposed to a system restore disk, is acceptable on a computer with any Windows version 10, regardless of installed updates and license status. But a more significant feature of such a flash drive is that there is no need to download the distribution kit as an ISO file from the Internet.
We go into the “ten” recovery environment.
1. Using the PC boot menu (Boot Menu), select the USB flash drive as the primary boot device.
2. We indicate Windows language 10 (Russian, of course).
3. In the window with the “Install” button, follow the “System Restore” link.
As a result, you will find yourself in the Windows 10 recovery environment, which allows you to return the operating system to a functioning state using one of the suitable methods proposed: using a rollback point, a full system reset, restoring the registry, checking the health of system files. The user will also have a fully functional command line at his disposal.
Greetings, dear readers.
Computers often fail for a variety of reasons. If this problem is directly related to the operating system, the best solution there will be a reinstallation. But what to do if there are important files left on the main drive or desktop? After all, when you reinstall everything, everything will be deleted. The solution is a tool like recovery Windows systems 7 from disk. This function allows you to restore the functionality of the operating system when the latter refuses to load.
In addition to a malfunctioning computer, we also need boot disk Windows. And this can be either a plastic carrier or a flash drive. Moreover, it is desirable that this be the same image from which the current shell was installed. Otherwise, due to a mismatch of versions, the process may not proceed.
If the element from which the current system was installed is lost, try to find it on the Internet on another computer. Download the disc and save it to your hard drive.
After the system image is on one of the partitions, it must be scanned for viruses using Comodo Internet Security, then correctly written to a portable device. To do this, use one of the many programs. For example, I like Rufus. The application allows you to complete the task as quickly as possible. It has an intuitive interface, so anyone can create a disk.
Procedure( )
There are many reasons why Win 7 can become so faulty that it stops loading. To solve the problem, you need to use a tool that allows you to return everything to its place. It runs through BIOS:
Reboot or turn on the computer.
After the first characters appear on the screen, press “ Del" The section we need will load. Sometimes the keys " F2», « F10», « F12"or others - it all depends on the manufacturer motherboard. The corresponding prompts usually appear on the monitor.
After getting to the right place, go to the “ tab Boot».
Here we need to set “”. We make sure that the computer boots from a portable device, be it a CD or flash drive.
After this, the system will restart and an inscription should appear on the black screen, which says that you need to use any button to start from the recovery disk.
After it starts Windows installation. We set the language, time and other elements. Click " Further».
We get to the main installation window. Below select the link “ System Restore».
Next, a search will begin for all installed operating systems on the computer. A dialog box will then appear with various options. Click " Further" As a result, we may be offered two options (it all depends on the initial distribution): a tool selection window or system diagnostics will start running.
The first makes it possible to choose one of several directions for future movements. You will find all the necessary information in the tips.
The second causes the tool to launch and attempt to fix it on its own. existing problems. This usually takes some time. If everything went well, users can only reboot the device. You can find out the reason in advance by following the link “ Display diagnostics...».
Oct 13 2013
How to perform a Windows 7 system recovery quickly and without nerves
How to perform a Windows 7 system recovery if your computer is unstable, the operating system does not load at all, or there is simply a black screen. See the video tutorial on how to run System Restore at the end of the article.
You have the Windows 7 operating system installed, then in this article you will learn different ways system recovery 7. In the last publication we learned what types of .
Launching Windows Recovery
Surely you or someone you know has encountered cases where Windows does not boot, or errors occur during the system. One way to fix this is to use Windows 7 System Restore.
Of course, there are other solutions to the problem such as: safe mode, useful F8, system recovery, installation or reinstalling Windows and others.
The recovery procedure or System Restore can be done in three different ways:
- Restoring using Windows itself
- Recovering via Safe Mode
- Restoring using the Windows 7 installation disc
System Restore using Windows
In order to begin restoring the Windows 7 system, you first need to figure out what errors are occurring and whether the operating system boots at all. If it boots, you can try to restore it from Windows.
Go to the desktop, find the shortcut or icon Computer (My Computer), click on it right click mouse and go to Properties.
In the window for viewing basic information about your computer, go to the System Protection tab.
In System Properties, find the System Protection tab and click Recovery.
We get to Restore system files and settings, click Next.
Select the desired date with a recovery checkpoint. You can click the Show other recovery points checkbox if the one you need is not among the points presented. Click Next.
We confirm the restoration, indicate the system drives that we want to restore, and then continue.
We confirm the restore point, look again at its description and if everything is correct, click Finish. There is also the option of creating a password reset floppy disk. You can save this information to either a floppy disk or a USB flash memory device.
You may need it if you forget or lose your computer password. If you still forgot it, then here you go.
System Restore will not be able to be interrupted once it is running. Continue? Click Yes.
After this, the system prepares for its recovery, all open source software and applications, the computer goes into reboot. Next time Windows startup 7, if everything went well, then the following window appears: System recovery completed successfully.
This is how system recovery 7 is done, using standard means Windows.
But let’s say that your Windows 7 operating system does not turn on and does not boot, how then can you perform a recovery? To do this, we will use the second method of restoring the Windows 7 system.
System Restore via Safe Mode
A window for additional boot options appears, select any safe mode and press Enter (Enter = Select).
Right-click on My Computer and go to Properties. The screen should be black, as shown in the screenshot.
Then go to Control Panel - Home Page.
Find and go to the Recovery tab (Restore the system to an earlier state).
To restore the previously saved state of this computer, click on the Start system recovery button. You can also select Advanced recovery methods.
After this, the Restore files and settings window appears.
Selecting a checkpoint >>> Confirming disk recovery >>> Confirming a recovery point >>> Starting the recovery procedure.
If the second method of system recovery did not help you, then the third option remains - we restore the computer with the installation Windows disk 7.
Recovery using the Windows 7 installation disc
Let's look at how to do it Windows recovery 7 using the installation disk.
If nothing helps you, then do it, look for information on the Internet, call a computer technician at your home, contact service center for computer repair or ask your question in the comments to this article.
Let's sum it up
Today we learned a lot useful information how to perform a Windows 7 system recovery in three ways: recovery from using Windows, restored through safe mode and used the Windows 7 installation disk.
Now let's watch a video tutorial on how to run System Restore.
How to do a system restore on Windows 7 | website
You may have questions related to restoring your computer system. You can ask them below in the comments to this article, and also use the form with me.
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Friends, there are situations when it is not possible to restore the system using checkpoints. Yes, it is better to avoid such situations, but if it does happen, then the problem needs to be solved somehow.
And to make the decision simple, it is best to prepare for such a situation. Today I will tell you how to restore your computer from a system image.
A system image is an exact copy of system files, settings, and configurations.
In this case, as with recovery from checkpoints, the system will “roll back” to the state recorded on the image. And accordingly, all program settings will be “rolled back” system parameters and files hosted on system disk(usually this is the “C:\” drive).
Why create a system image?
Let's consider this option: you downloaded a new game and installed it. At the end, the installation wizard asked you to reboot the system. The computer turned off and the OS will no longer boot. What happened? A virus was built into the distribution of the program, which infected your system.
This can also happen when you try to download and install a “hacked” software, which Russian PC users love to use.
As a result, we end up with an inoperable system. This is where a pre-created OS image comes in handy. If you have such a disk, then restoring the system will not cause you any problems.
Create a disk with a system image
- 1. Click on the “Start” button in the lower left corner of the system desktop. In the menu that opens, select “Control Panel” of Windows 7 OS. In the window that opens, find the “System and Security” section and click on the “Backup computer data” subsection.
- 2. In the window that opens, select the “Create a system image” item.
- 3. The “System Image Creation Wizard” will start. Which will prompt you to select a location to save the archive. By default, the item “On DVDs” will be indicated. Leave this option and click the “Next” button.
- 4. The “Confirm archiving parameters” window will appear. After checking the specified parameters, click the “Activate” button.
After which the process of preparing and creating an archive will begin. The progress of the process will be displayed as a filling colored bar.
- 4. During the process, the Wizard will prompt you to insert a blank storage medium larger than 1 GB into the drive. The disk must already be formatted. This can be done in the “My Computer” window by right-clicking on the DVD drive. And in the menu that opens, select “Format...” or “Erase this disk.” And the master will then format it himself.
- 5. Next, the Wizard will begin recording the created archive onto a DVD. This process may take a significant amount of time.
Upon completion of this operation, a window will appear asking you to add information for the disk being created. disaster recovery systems. As we remember from the article “”, using the information recorded on the disk, it is possible to return the system to one of the states recorded as a recovery checkpoint.
- 6. After the Wizard finishes creating the system image, a window will open with a message about successful completion system archiving.
- 7. Now the disk with the created system image can be removed from the drive and close the Wizard window by clicking the “Close” button.
So, Friends, the disk with the system image has been successfully created. We laid out some straw. Protect yourself.
Restoring a system from a system image
Let's look at a situation where, as a result of a virus, our computer refuses to boot. Accordingly, there is neither an emergency recovery disk nor an installation disk with the OS at hand. But we prepared a disk image with the system in advance.
- 1. Reboot the computer by clicking the “Reset” button, or by turning off and then turning on the computer’s power. When loading, press the “F8” key and go to the “Advanced boot options” menu.
- 2. Select “Troubleshoot computer problems” and press the “Enter” key.
- 3. After this, the “System Recovery Options” window will appear with the required selection of the recovery menu language and keyboard options.
As a rule, you don’t need to change anything here, just click the “Next” button.
- 4. Next, the “System Recovery Options” window will appear, in which you must specify a Username and Password.
Specify the required Username, enter the password and click “OK”.
- 5. A window will open in which you will need to select the system recovery option.
- 6. Next, insert the previously recorded DVD with the system image into the drive and click on “Restore system image”. After some time, the system will find the image on the DVD and launch the “Recover Computer from Image Wizard”. On the next two Wizard windows, click the “Next” button, leaving the proposed settings. And on the last window, click the “Done” button.
- 7. By clicking the “Finish” button, a final window will appear warning that all data on the system disk will be replaced with data from the system image. Confirm your intention to restore the system from the image by clicking the “Yes” button.
After this, the Wizard will begin the system recovery process, which will take a little time.
Once the recovery process is complete, your PC will automatically reboot. operating system restored from the image, all user data is saved, we did not touch it.
Now we have completed our study of the issue of restoring a computer from a system image.
I am sure that now each of you will certainly create an image of the system. After all, they say correctly: “Trust in God, but don’t make a mistake yourself.”
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