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Questions tagged [recovery-disk]

A recovery disk contains the tools and additional information that can be used to recover your system using data stored on your hard drive.

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Can't creat a recovery disk on windows 10: Some required files are missin

Recently I bought a asus vivobook notebook which has genuine win 10 home pre-installed. But I have installed ubuntu 16.04 alongside it. For doing so I had to shrink the partition in which windows is installed. I have done it with windows' built in…
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Creating a recovery disk of Windows 10

I've recently purchased Dell laptop and it has Windows 10 pre-installed on it. I plan to install Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.2 LTS on it. But before doing so, I want to make recovery disk of Windows 10 so that in case if I lose my Windows 10 installation…
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Windows Surface USB Recovery Drive

My friend lost her password to her tab and she cannot log back in to her tab, and being the leet haxor that I am, I know that the only way to refresh her tab and keep all her important course assignments. But the only way to refresh without a…
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Creating 2nd recovery disk set HP Pavilion dv6-1315tx

I have just recently got a HP Pavilion dv6-1315tx computer second hand. It comes with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. The first thing I wanted to do was to create a recovery disk,but it seems as if the previous owner has already created a set.…
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Restore windows 7 without "system repair disk"

I have a blank hard drive. I also have a Windows 7 system image backed up on an external hard drive. I don't have a system repair disk (SRD) and also don't have Windows 7 disk. I only have the recovery disks that came with my laptop. There is no…
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How to create a Windows 7 Recovery disk if it's home edition and it's broken at the moment?

Windows 7 can't load to the Welcome screen. It just boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor. How to create a Windows 7 Recovery DVD disk if I have a second laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate installed? I have a Windows 7 Recovery disk for Windows…
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No operating system found when booting from USB

I have a Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop running Phoenix BIOS. I downloaded the Windows 7 x64 ISO to create a bootable USB. I did this under OS X by following the instructions from this website:…
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Prevent Lenovo recovery from wiping out personal data

I have a Lenovo T430s with a C and a Q partition. C is for system and Q is for recovery. My plan is to create a D partition with Windows disk management tool where I can save my personal data and then restore the system with the recovery DVDs. My…
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Is a BCD generic?

I have 2 computers both running Windows 8.1 (updated from the Store), and one of them won't boot. Upon booting, I get this error message: Your PC needs to be repaired The Boot Configuration Data file is missing some required information File: \BCD …
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How can I create my own system recovery disc?

I have a system already installed with the OS and applications I needed and I want to create a recovery disc for the system so that in the event there is a crash or HDD spoil I can just use this recovery disc. Like Acer's eRecovery, that can gather…
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Installing Windows 8 with External DVD Drive

I have Ubuntu on my computer, and I have Windows 8 recovery DVDs. I do not have a build in DVD drive on my computer, so I bought an external one. Will the external DVD drive be able to read the Windows 8 recovery DVDs if I remove Ubuntu from my…
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Do Windows 11 Recovery Drives contain the currently installed drivers?

I tried to reinstall Windows 11 using the installation media by following the steps on the Create installation media for Windows page. When I booted the USB, I found that it did not contain drivers for my touchpad or SSD, rendering it useless. If I…
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How to repair encrypted disk after unfinished formatting?

I've accidentally started formatting of encrypted macos journaled external hdd. 5 seconds after start, I've unplagged hdd to stop the process. Now it isn't mounting. Is there a way to restore data integrity somehow? HDD was encrypted by macos tools…
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Where do I get a recovery media for WHS 2011?

Where do I get a recovery disk for the client to restore from a WHS 2011 backup? Current Solution: Now I've found my recovery disk (CD). I made the following observations: My CD drive seems to be faulty. Also the generation of the USB recovery media…
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Boot issues on Windows 7 enterprise

I'm running windows 7 enterprise at mcdonalds. We we're given a recovery disk to restart our machine with. Our optic drive then stopped working. I've tried burning an iso image of the file on to a USB stick and booting from that. However I get as…
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