These steps are for Windows 8. Read more at Windows Recovery Disks. The NeoSmart Support Forums , member-to-member technical support and troubleshooting.
Applicable Systems This Windows-related knowledgebase article applies to the following operating systems:. Download Easy Recovery Essentials. Screenshot of Easy Recovery Essentials. Press any key. Windows Vista System Type.
Advanced Boot Options on Windows 7. Windows 7 — Create disc progress bar. The Refresh your PC option in Windows 8. The Remove everything option in Windows 8. Windows 8 — Create disc progress bar. Download recovery disk for Windows 10 free Using Windows 8?
Download recovery disk for Windows 8 Using Windows 7? Download recovery disk for Windows 7 Using Windows Vista? This is for Windows 8 Pro only, you may be able to do this with other version, I do not know. This method does require a product key. My product key was in a confirmation email sent when I upgraded. Here are the steps to create recovery media. For more detailed instructions and screenshots see this website.
The first step in attempting to fix this issue is to attempt to repair the boot files. This did not work for me but may work for you.
You can try these options, however, they did not work for me. At this point the above commands did not work for me. This left the option of re-installing Windows. However reinstalling Windows will erase certain files. It may be possible recover the files to an external hard drive. For instructions on how this is done see the UNetbootin installation instructions.
For some reason this method did not allow me to copy files I kept receiving error messages. Hopefully this will allow you to save some files before re-installing Windows. There may be a way to save these files before re-installing Windows. See Above Step. Once your computer is up and running I would recommend checking your HD to see if it is failing.
Please learn from me and keep a recent backup of your hard drive if at all possible. I do recommend cloning your hard drive I use Clonezilla as often as needed for your needs. Please Note: I am not a computer expert and use the above advice at your own risk. The above process was figured out by a mix of reading advice via multiple forums across the Internet and finally speaking with Microsoft Tech Support. Also note that MS tech support may cost money.
If your timing is right, it should dump you straight to the startup options menu, before it actually starts to try loading Windows. I'd like to share another solution that worked for me. I've tried all of the above and several other tutorials on the internet and none alone helped. However I found a video on youtube about unlocking the drive because the system refresh didn't work either. Without actually knowing what I was doing ;-] I blindly followed the inscructions up to some point min I did not want to create a new partition but it was enough so what I did was:.
After those steps I noticed there was another installation that I could chose in the recovery mode. It was called Windows on Volume 2. I picked it and bang!
Windows was booting again ;-. Unfortunately I now had to select the installation that I want to use, so I opened msconfig and in the Boot tab I deleted the invalid one it was the one without a drive letter :.
I suspect it was caused by one of my external HDDs. At that time I had three of them attached, one to the notebook directly and two to the docking station. I left my external hdd attached again and I had to repair windows once more. This time I tried a different approach:. The last command allowed me to select the OS path which I did. Next I closed the console. Now back in the recovery menu I was able to select the OS that I want to use to boot.
I restarted my computer and it booted normaly. There is usually a key stroke or key stroke combo to access recovery partitions. HP usually is F11 as it boots as is Dell. I would try F11 as a start but your vendor should have this info available for you.
Lol, just booting to ur bios and selecting load defaults or last known config would have solved. Experienced 3 days back when I attempted further ocing. Sign up to join this community. If you need to install or reinstall Windows 8. Before you begin Make sure you have: An internet connection internet service provider fees may apply.
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