Win 7 Home Premium Repair Disk ISO

GunJack

DavidP24 wrote: »

Macrium has good selection of PE environments which give you CMD prompt to run commands.

Mini Partition Wizard tool has options to rebuild MBR

I know, got and use both

GunJack

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Surely if you have a 7 image install disk then you can repair from that ??? What is the exact problem GJ:beer:

The exact problem is:-

1. I think the hdd is beginning to fail, possibly with some overly-corrupted sectors.
2. On boot, it gets to the windows "flag" emblem but no further
3. chkdsk and sfc have been run on the drive, fixed some stuff but no difference on boot.
4. Booted into repair environment (from several different variants of install and repair disks), it identified the windows install, but fails when hitting Next to go to the repair & recovery tools, with error message saying not compatible with this version of Repair disk, obtain the correct version....not seen this before, ever, on anything at this stage

Ideally I wanted to get it to boot properly, then image the drive to make swapping the hdd easier, but looks like I'm going to have to go data recovery and clean install :mad:

forgotmyname

If its the drive itself then you run the HD manufacturers software to error check it. If its fixable it will tell you if not then stop using it until you can backup and replace it.

grumpycrab

Coincidentally, and of no help to GJ, I'm fixing a Vaio with a "clicking" Seagate Barracuda. It's a simple fix for me because the disk is knackered - so new install. (The user said it had become more difficult to boot successfully over the last week - so that's 18month of -luckily unimportant- docs and photos gone; their File History backup wasn't working either).

debitcardmayhem

You could try using Macrium reflect recovery disk perhaps

GunJack

Thanks guys, I'm not going to overdo the disk until after I've recovered the user's data

Once I have, if I can repair it enough to image it, that's the end-game. As stated it's having a new hdd anyway, at this point it's whether it's a clean install and reinstate data or the chance of image of the old...

GunJack

The old hdd is going back to the owner as-is, in a caddy as an emergency data recovery option until they're sure they have all they need off it...they "think" they've got everything backed up (but how often have we heard that one ), but we can never be quite sure, can we??

forgotmyname

Well running the Windows repair disk may kill it. You need the manufacturers disk which will tell you any fault codes logged and the drives health status.