Mar 3 2015
How to restore a Windows 7 system on a laptop, a black screen appears when booting, the recovery environment does not work, I deleted everything hidden partitions, there is no original Windows 7 disk.
Spent a lot of time, tell me what to do now, or at least how to insure myself against such situations in the future, preferably without using paid programs Reserve copy data.
How to restore a Windows 7 system
Unfortunately, there are enough reasons for this trouble, ranging from incorrectly written drivers, harmful actions of a virus, errors file system and ending with our erroneous actions when working with a computer, there is no need to be afraid of such problems, you need to learn how to deal with them effectively.
Let's think about how to restore the windows 7 system, as well as insure ourselves for the future from possible troubles using the built-in operating system backup and recovery tools.
We will learn how to restore Windows 7 without applying third-party programs on backup even when the System Recovery Options are not loaded and the F-8 button will be useless.
It has in its arsenal a fairly powerful and good tool -> Recovery Environment, which is created automatically when installing Windows 7 in a hidden partition and contains five other tools that solve numerous malfunctions and problems.
Note: If you learn to use the right tools Windows recovery 7, and this is not difficult, you can do without additional and paid data backup programs.
You can start the recovery tool by pressing the F-8 button on your keyboard immediately after starting your computer. After that, you will see the Advanced Boot Options menu: Computer Troubleshooting, then Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Boot network drivers etc.
Small digression: Before choosing Troubleshoot computer problems, try the easier option - Last Known Good Configuration - in simple words, the operating system always remembers the last successful boot of the computer and enters this information into the registry.
In case of problems with loading, Windows can remember the registry settings and driver settings that were used at the last successful boot of the system and use them if you select the Last Known Good Configuration option.
If this tool does not help, select the first -> Computer troubleshooting,
Next, we get to the Windows 7 System Recovery Options menu, we need it, it is here that we can select the System Restore Tool we need, there are five of them, let's take a closer look at how they all work.
The first thing to do is apply Startup Repair (Automatically fix problems that prevent Windows from starting).
Desired digression: After pressing the F-8 button when the computer boots, you may not have the item> Troubleshoot computer problems, but only Safe Mode, and so on, the question arises why.
When installing Windows 7, the recovery environment partition is created automatically and is located in the root of the drive (C :) in the Recovery folder. You can also see in the Disk Management window - a separate, hidden partition of the hard drive, its volume is only 100 MB, it is used to store boot configuration files (BCD) and the system boot loader (bootmgr file).
You can see it Computer-> Management-> Disk Management. In no case should you delete this partition (many people delete it out of ignorance), otherwise you will not start the recovery environment, that is, you will not have the item Troubleshooting computer problems, and in more severe cases, you simply will not boot the system.
On the lower screenshot, you can see another hidden partition, with a volume of 9.02 GB, this is a hidden recovery partition with the factory settings of my laptop, you may have it larger or smaller. It is also better not to delete it, if necessary, you can always restore Windows 7 from it.
What to do if you do not have a partition with the recovery environment and when you press the F-8 button in the Advanced Boot Options menu, the item Solving computer problems does not appear? How do you restore your Windows 7 system then?
The installation disk with the Windows 7 operating system can save here. You can run the recovery tool by booting from the original installation Windows disk 7, selecting at the very beginning the System Restore item.
If a installation disk if you don't, then you can use the Windows 7 Recovery Disc (you can make it in any running Windows 7) in five minutes, then you can also boot from it and do the same.
So, we still got to the System Recovery Options, either using the F-8 button and the Troubleshoot item, or the Windows 7 installation disc or Windows 7 Recovery Disc.
In the Select System Restore Tools menu, select the first:
Launch recovery-> analysis of faults interfering with normal booting Windows 7 and their further correction for normal loading and functioning of the operating system.
In the process, we may be warned that problems have been found in the boot parameters, click Fix and restart.
System Restore-> using this function, we will be able to select a previously created system restore point, if we have it enabled, and roll back to the time when our Windows 7 worked fine and booted, everything is simple here.
System image recovery-> I personally use this tool, with skillful use it can replace paid data backup programs, if interested, read on.
What is it good for? It will help when you do not have the original Windows 7 installation disc and you have deleted the hidden partition with the factory settings of your laptop, but that's not all.
Sometimes there are situations when, for various reasons or due to the actions of a virus, you will not be able to boot the operating system at all, or many ask How to restore the Windows 7 system, even if the menu with Additional boot options is also unavailable. Reinstall the operating system again?
Therefore, immediately after installing Windows 7 on your laptop or computer, using this function, we create an archived image of our Windows 7 on the hard disk using this function -> System Image Restore, we save it.
Be sure to create a Windows 7 Recovery Disc (see below), it will help you use the System Image if the Advanced Boot Options menu will not load.
We go to Start -> Control Panel -> Archiving computer data.
We select "Create a system image".
In my case, Local Disk (E :), if you have system unit some hard drives, then of course it is better to place the backup on the hard drive where the operating system is not installed.
By default, the data backup program will select the partition with the Windows 7 operating system itself, if you wish, you yourself can add Local drives for backup, if only you have enough space.
Note: You can see that I have two operating systems installed on a laptop, so the backup program selected two Local drives.
Click Archive and the process of creating an archive with our Windows 7 will begin.
Created, it will look like this.
Now, if necessary, you can deploy the archive with Windows 7 to your computer in 20-30 minutes. It will be better if you copy the archive with the system additionally to a portable HDD, this will make you doubly safe.
Let's imagine that we cannot start Windows 7 and deploy the backup we created, do it together.
We launch the Windows 7 Recovery Tool by pressing the F-8 button on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer.
The Advanced Boot Options menu opens, select Troubleshoot computer problems.
System image recovery
Use the latest available system image.
Of course, all our data is on Local disk where the operating system is currently being restored will be deleted, so you can pre-boot from any Live CD and copy what you need.
How else can you restore your Windows 7 system? With the help of Windows 7 Recovery Disc, of course.
Let's create one that can be used to boot the computer, it will contain recovery tools with which you can restore Windows 7 boot failures, as well as restore the operating system from an archive copy that we created in advance.
Important: The bitness of the system is important for the recovery disk, you can use a 32-bit recovery disk for any 32-bit Windows 7, and a 64-bit recovery disk for any 64-bit Windows 7.
Going again Archiving computer data.
Create a system recovery disc, insert the DVD into the drive, click "Create Disc".
When boot disk Windows 7 recovery is ready, put it in a safe place.
In order to restore Windows 7 from the Recovery Disc, you do not need, in principle, any working operating system at all.
You only need to change the boot priority to the floppy drive in the BIOS of your computer, insert the recovery disc into it and restore your Windows 7 using the archive.
Many people here can draw an analogy with data backup programs and this is correct, they work according to the same principle, only their functionality is, of course, more convenient.
Recovering Windows 7 from the Recovery Disc. I am showing you how to do it. Let's say we are in trouble, we cannot start Windows 7, when we press F-8 on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer, nothing happens.
We cannot get into the menu with Additional boot options and an error message is displayed. In this case, the system archive on the hard disk is not available to us. It was this kind of trouble that happened to our reader Ilya, who wrote us a letter asking for help.
In this situation, many reinstall Windows 7 from scratch, but not you and me, because we have a System Restore Disc.
We insert it into the floppy drive and reboot, set the BIOS to boot from the floppy drive, as I said the boot disk, the System Recovery Options program starts.
Press Enter until the offer to boot from disk disappears.
An automatic recovery tool running from a disk will try to repair Windows startup 7.
If all else fails, choose any tool, try, for example, Restoring your computer using the previously created image of the operating system.
We use the last available system image.
What other ways are there to restore Windows 7?
There is another little-known way to restore Windows 7 boot after a crash, and I'll tell you about it. At first glance, it will seem difficult to many, but nevertheless it often helps me out.
The fact is, friends, that a very large part of the problems due to which you cannot boot Windows 7 lies in registry errors. And Windows 7 wouldn't be Windows 7 if it didn't have a mechanism to protect registry files. Such a mechanism exists and creates archive copies of the registry in the RegBack folder every 10 days, regardless of whether you have system restore enabled or not.
If you cannot solve problems with booting Windows 7, you should try replacing the existing (and apparently damaged) registry files from the Config folder with archive files from the RegBack folder. To do this, we will have to boot the computer from a Windows 7 installation disc or a Windows 7 recovery disc.
Boot into the recovery environment, select the command line.
We type in it - notepad, we get into Notepad, then File and Open.
We go into the real explorer, click My Computer. Now we need the system drive C :, attention, the drive letters here may be mixed up, but the system drive C: I think you can find out by the system Windows folders and Program Files.
We go to the C: \ Windows \ System32 \ Config folder, the current registry files are located here, we indicate the File Type - All files and we see our registry files, we also see the RegBack folder, in which the Task Scheduler makes a backup copy of the registry keys every 10 days.
So, we will replace the existing registry files from the Config folder with the backup registry files from the RegBack folder.
So, first of all, we will delete from the C: \ Windows \ System32 \ Config folder the SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM files, which are responsible for all the registry hives (my advice is to copy the registry hives somewhere just in case, just in case).
In their place, copy and paste files with the same names, but from a backup copy, that is, from the RegBack folder.
Note: All files SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM cannot be deleted, delete them one by one. Then copy the same files from the RegBack folder to their place.
Friends, if this did not help, apply the restoration of integrity Windows files 7, if the operating system does not boot, it is done in the same way as in Windows 8.
What else do we have from Windows 7 recovery tools?
Memory Diagnostics 7-> checks the system memory for errors. Command line -> with it you can delete files that interfere with the boot of Windows 7.
I hope our article on how to restore your Windows 7 system helped you.
Hello dear visitors. After installing the operating system, in most cases it is Windows 7, the question arises, what to do next, what needs to be configured and installed? I can’t even count how many times I have installed Windows 7 and I have already developed a habit by which I configure the newly installed operating system and install the most necessary programs for an ordinary user.
Now I will tell you what you need to do first after installing the Windows 7 operating system.
Right click on the icon "My computer" on your desktop, and select Properties. At the bottom of the page there will be information on OS activation. If you see an inscription that Windows 7 is activated, then everything is ok, you can move on to another item.
Well, if you see messages like “XX days left. to complete the activation. " Then you need to activate the operating system. I think you know how to do it :). FROM Windows activation 7 there shouldn't be any problems now.
And one more thing, if a computer "wizard" installs an operating system for you, then be sure to check if it is activated. I saw cases that no one activates anything, probably in order to get a client again in 30 days.
If everything is fine, and all devices are recognized by the system, then you will see something like this:
If there are unrecognized devices, or problems with some drivers, they will be displayed with yellow exclamation marks.
That is, returning them to previous version- a unique feature of Windows that is supported in all new versions of the OS.
Windows saves the previously installed drivers and allows you to automatically restore them, which makes it possible to significantly save time if it has led to the inoperability of system or peripheral devices.
To restore the driver:
1. You must log into the Windows operating system under account administrator.
2. Find the “My Computer” icon, right-click on it and select “Properties” from the drop-down menu.
3. On the “Control Panel” tab, click on the “Device Manager” button.
4. In the list of devices, double-click the branch corresponding to the inoperative device. For example, clicking on the "Video adapters" branch expands its contents.
5. Select the device you are interested in and, by clicking on it, in context menu click "Properties".
6. In the new dialog box, select the Driver tab and click Roll Back.
7. By clicking "Yes", thereby confirm your choice in the window containing the message "Do you really want to restore the previously installed archived previous version of the driver?"
8. The previous driver will be restored. Click on the button to close the window. 9. Close the device manager window, click on the “OK” button and restart Windows.
In the worst case, when the inoperability of the system device driver led to the crash of the entire OS, you can return to restoring the driver by booting the computer into safe mode... It is also possible to return the system to a previous operable state using the function “Return to last good configuration».
System Restore is an alternative solution that allows you not only to revert to your previous hardware configuration, but also to discard all software and registry changes.
Hello, friends!
Finding and installing drivers is a real headache for many novice PC users.
In this article, we will look at a few examples of where, and how, to look for drivers for your computer or laptop.
Most often, the problem with finding drivers occurs after reinstalling the Windows operating system. How to reinstall Windows using a disk, I wrote in this, Windows installation from a flash drive
How do I know for which devices I need to install drivers? To do this, right-click (pkm) on the computer icon → select the properties tab → Device Manager.
In this example, all drivers are installed correctly and work correctly. If one of the points shows question mark, which means for this device we need a driver search.
Usually, when buying a laptop or computer in assembly, a disc with the necessary drivers and utilities is attached to them. One disk with all drivers is supplied with the laptop, separately for the computer; usually these are drivers for a chipset, video card, driver sound card, lan..idr. Everything is simple here, install the disk and start the installation of the necessary drivers.
Before looking for device drivers for your system, I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the five iron ones. If there is no driver disk, use method 2.
Download drivers from the manufacturer's official website
Let's consider an example Asus laptop K42f. Go to the official Asus website and search for this model. Select the tab → download and indicate your operating system (you can find out the system by going to → My Computer → (pkm) → Properties).
We are looking for all the necessary drivers. The most important drivers are Chipset, Sound, VGA, LAN (network), etc. If this method does not help, use the next, third method.
Driver search by device code.
Let's go back to the device manager. Computer → pcm → Properties. Let's say we don't have an audio controller driver .. see the picture.
We click on it and select the item → properties. In the open window, select the "Information" tab, and in the drop-down menu, select → " Equipment ID"(In Windows XP" Device Instance ID»).
An example of such code VEN_8086 & DEV_0046... Select it with the left key and copy it by pressing the key combination Ctrl + C... Now go to the site www.devid.info In the search field, insert ( Ctrl + V) copied code.
Click "OK", after which a list of drivers for this device will appear → download and install. It didn't work → we use the 4th method.
Thanks to the drivers, the system gains access to control the equipment connected to the computer. Correctly installed software is the key to the operation of any device, therefore, the question of how to restore a driver if it has ceased to perform its function is very acute for users.
Recovery
Windows automatically creates backups drivers, thanks to which you can roll back the software of the connected equipment to a previous working configuration. This is done as follows:
If the previous version software is not saved in the system, the Roll Back button will be unavailable.
A warning question will appear on the screen, from which you will know that the rollback to old version reduces the functionality and safety of the device. If you decide to continue with the driver recovery procedure, click Yes. 
After rolling back the device software to a healthy state, you can close all running windows and check if the error has been fixed. If a broken driver causes problems that cause the system to refuse to boot normally, you can try the above procedure in safe mode.
If the software rollback did not solve the problem, try installing the drivers on Windows 7 by downloading their updated versions from the official source.
Loading a good configuration
Another boot option that returns all drivers to a healthy state is to use the last known good configuration. To download it, follow the steps below.