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| Answer» <html><body><p>I dl'd this file and tried burning this as an ISO image to create a repair disk for my laptop but as you can see it downloads as a torrent file, not and iso file. I tried renaming the file to iso but I get the message that it's not an iso file when I go to burn it. Any ideas?<br/><br/><a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070929/vista-sp1-recovery-disc/">http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070929/vista-sp1-recovery-disc/</a>What does download as a torrent file?Sorry, wrong link<br/><a href="https://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/#comment-125249">http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/#comment-125249</a>I see now. You have to use torrent agent, then. I use BitLord: <a href="http://www.bitlord.com/">http://www.bitlord.com/</a>Thanks Broni. I'm downloading the file from another site. I'll let you know if it's any good.Oh, cool. I downloaded it through torrent, and it took only 10 minutes. <br/>BTW, thanks for the link.Broni, did you try to burn it to a CD as an image? Do you suppose it will really act as a repair disk?I burned it, and it's bootable, which is its purpose. As the article mentions:<br/> Quote</p><blockquote>The Windows Vista DVD has a "recovery center" that provides you with the option of recovering your system via automated recovery (searches for problems and attempts to fix them automatically), rolling-back to a system restore point, recovering a full PC backup, or accessing a command-line recovery console for advanced recovery purposes.</blockquote> Burned CD Quote<blockquote>contains the contents of the Windows Vista DVD's "recovery center,"</blockquote> I also burned the image to a CD but how can you <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/tell-1240910" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TELL">TELL</a> if it's bootable? The only experience I've had with burning images is a few weeks ago I burned a unbuntu image to a disk and when I stuck it in, the program started. I did that with this disk on my main computer running XP and it just opened to let me see the files.Put CD in, and restart computer.Well, I tried it and it <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/appears-881937" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about APPEARS">APPEARS</a> to work. Handy to have if I have a failure.Cool Broni, I <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/wonder-744599" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WONDER">WONDER</a> how many people know about this. From my limited knowledge about <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/computers-21658" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COMPUTERS">COMPUTERS</a> this is almost like having the OS disks. Almost every computer that one can buy nowdays comes with no OS disks. Heck, your lucky if you get a recovery disk. If this works like it's advertised to work, almost everyone should know about it. Your ideas?No. You're going too far.<br/>Actually, you got me curious. <br/>I wasn't familiar with a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/whole-1455252" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WHOLE">WHOLE</a> issue, and I did some digging.<br/>I found out, that <strong>creating "Recovery CD" feature was actually added with SP1</strong>.<br/>The whole subject is nicely explained here: <a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070929/vista-sp1-recovery-disc/#comment-39091">http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070929/vista-sp1-recovery-disc/#comment-39091</a><br/> Quote<blockquote>this tool creates merely a slimmed-down Windows installation disc. It takes a normal Windows installation disc image and strips out all the “installation” functionality leaving <strong>only</strong> the repair tools and common system files.</blockquote> More, or less, it'll let you boot with it, if your computer is not bootable, and it works like Windows XP CD <strong>Repair</strong> option.<br/><br/>When you boot with "Recovery CD", at first you'll be presented with regular Vista installation screen:<br/><br/><br/><br/>You'll need to select "Repair your computer" to get to these options:<br/><br/><br/><br/>According to the article, the above feature should be found at <strong>“Start menu” > “All programs” > “Maintenance” > “Create a Recovery Disc”</strong>, but....I don't have it listed there. I wonder, if you do.<br/>I did some search, and I found it here:<br/><strong>C:\Windows\SMINST\CD Creator.exe</strong>I can't find either of these on my computer but I haven't figured out Vista's search engine yet. I'm sure I installed SP1 the other day. <br/>Edit. Just after I posted, I turned on my laptop and there was an update. Guess what? it's SP1</body></html> | |