Nimrod

These days people who get Windows Vista with a new computer or laptop from the major manufacturers like Dell, Acer, Toshiba HP and others will find they don’t get a Windows Vista DVD with their new computers. It doesn’t matter that you spent hundreds on your new computer with a valid Windows Vista you still are not entitled to the DVD.

The problem with that is simple, when you have problems with your Windows installation and it’s not booting you need to use that disc to recover from the problem. For some people they have downloaded or borrowed Windows Vista discs from PC who purchased a full copy of Vista in a shop. Windows Vista has gone a step further having a simple recovery center with automated tools which will fix your install (unlike the XP days where you had to use Recovery Console and command lines to fix it) yet despite this without a disc customers can’t get to use this feature!



Luckily Microsoft has listened to peoples complaints and have kindly made a recovery disc. It contains the contents of the Windows Vista DVD’s “Recovery Center”. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista but does provide you with all the Recovery tools which should hopefully get you back on track.


Download:

Download Windows Vista 34-bit (x86) Recovery Disc

Alternatively:

Are you using the 64-bit version of Windows Vista? (If you are unsure, you are most likely using 32-bit). If so:
Download Windows Vista 64-bit (x64) Recovery Disc

Its important to ensure you use the right version (32/64 bit) for the Windows Vista you have otherwise it can cause problems!

How to use:

Unzip the recovery disc you downloaded, then burn the CD Image (ISO file) to a disc, if you are unsure how to do this why not have a look at Digiex's How to burn BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI images to disc guide.

If your bios is set to boot from CD / DVD you can now put the burned disc in your computer and boot the recovery disc. If not you will have to set your computer to boot from DVD before the hard disk. You have to do this in the computers bios which is usually accessed by pressing F2 or Delete when you power the computer on.

Attached Files

Vista_Recovery_Disc.zip (113.35 MB, 35484 views)

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CurlySteve

I installed linux and it conveniently broke my boot loader so I used this recovery disc and now it all works perfectly. Thanks.

she11

I couldn't even get through the system restore because it tells me i haven't created any checkpoints and i always did one every 2 weeks, then it said i could restore the computer back to factory settings,, then that gives me an error message saying it couldn't i would need a cd or backup and i saved the recovery cd both on a disk and on a portable drive and it said it couldn't find it. as for downloading a recovery cd on here thats what i want to do but don't wanna download the wrong one. like i don't know what is 32 or 64 and i don't where to look being i can't get past the blue screen.