Posted: 5/28/2017 11:01:45 AM EDT
| Trying to recover a windows 7 pro machine stuck in an infinite boot up loop. What I have read says I need to make a bootable usb so I can get it fired up and run the repair tool, or more likely in this case yank all the files I want off it before scrapping the machine. However since the product key I have is for a machine with windows pre-installed microsoft wont let me download the iso from them. Where else can I get the iso from? Lots of places out there say they have it but they're torrents and places I have never heard of before so I am a little leery of using them. |
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Do you have access to a working Windows 7 PC?
You can get the files needed to make a bootable USB with System Recovery tools from the Recovery and Boot folders on a working windows 7 install this is the guide I used and it worked perfectly. http://www.digitalcitizen.life/create-usb-memory-stick-system-recovery-tools |
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Search your favorite torrent sites for Windows 7 PE, win7pe, etc.. The "Preinstallation Environment" is a version that's bootable from CD or USB. I also use Hiren's Boot CD, which you can also load from USB if you'd like. Lot's of good utils, or just pick through the HD and copy the files you need. http://www.hirensbootcd.org/ |
I have a windows 10 machine that I am using to post from. The windows 7 machine is mostly used to play movies on and for the wife and kids to surf on. I really don't want to have to go buy a new machine right now, was hoping it would hang on another 2-3 months till I could replenish my overtime slush fund that a dead septic pump wiped out. Not that I have not gotten my money out of that computer though. I opened it up for the first time in a couple years to remove and blow the dust out of the fans, the thermal paste between the cpu and heatsink had turned to dust and blew away too lol.
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I have a windows 10 machine that I am using to post from. The windows 7 machine is mostly used to play movies on and for the wife and kids to surf on. I really don't want to have to go buy a new machine right now, was hoping it would hang on another 2-3 months till I could replenish my overtime slush fund that a dead septic pump wiped out. Not that I have not gotten my money out of that computer though. I opened it up for the first time in a couple years to remove and blow the dust out of the fans, the thermal paste between the cpu and heatsink had turned to dust and blew away too lol. |
| Looks like linux is going to be the way to go. Running a live desktop now to pull the files I want to keep then I will be replacing the suspect drive and giving linux a long term run. Thanks guys! Normally GD costs me money but it looks like today you saved me some! |