Comments on: How to Make a Windows Vista Repair Disk If You Don’t Have One

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:51:54 +0000

I am having problems. The cd loads fine, but asks for disk drivers for my hard drives. I have sata drives. Can anyone help?

By: Crazy_Timbo

Crazy_Timbo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:21:56 +0000

Wow, this worked, took 2 hours to download bittorrent and 3 attempts and about an hour to run on wifes laptop but it wokred, after 2 days of nothing we are back up and running, boy is she pleased!!! Thank you for saving my life, well it was my fault it fell over in the first place, apparently.

By: john

john — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:11:10 +0000

ok so my friend deleted c drive and now i get that “boot mgr is missing.” I created the vista recovery disk (Windows Vista x64 Recovery Disc) and it loaded but failed. It start loading:

It says no FAT32 Volumes Found, exiting…
Driver not found: ‘MSCD001′.
“Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
Copyright (c) 1976, 1998 Caldera, Inc. All rights reserved.
[DR-DOS] A:\>”

and stop loading from there. I have no clue what to do now…Please help. It’s a HP tx2500 pavilion entertainment notebook.

By: Fleegle

Fleegle — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:57:35 +0000

I made the recovery disks (both 32 and 64 bit because I don’t know which version I have) but the computer won’t boot from the CD. It tries to boot and makes that ‘eh-uh’ noise but just goes into the repair options that were already available without the CD and don’t work. The farthest it gets is a blue or black screen (depending on the recovery option you choose) with a cursor you can move around. Why won’t the CD boot?

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:46:45 +0000

Hi, I am wondering if this Windows Vista repair disc will work on a computer if sp1 updates have been already installed.

By: BillB

BillB — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:35:44 +0000

Am presently running the start up in “repair” mode, booted off the downloaded CD as described. How long can this take ? I guess it may vary, but just curious. System was apparently corrupted on a software load. What I see is the reapir screen and the scrolling bar.

Thanks

By: illustuious

illustuious — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:05:44 +0000

I have no other computer to download the repair tools…..so is there anything in the start before the BOOTMGR msg comes up, that can get my computer started…whether it erases all my info or not?

By: Adewale

Adewale — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:43:07 +0000

Hi there! Great Tip you’ve got here. I have actually finished with the process stated above and i tried booting with the CD just to be sure its perfectly working. I didnt follow it to the end though cuz i had to pause and wonder “Wont this wipe off all what i have on my laptop? please i need to know what exactly this Cd is capable of doing as i dont want to wipe off the drivers or will the CD be restoring my drivers? I can always back up my files bt what about certain drivers that cant be easily gotten cuz my hp didnt come with any CD. Please reply ASAP.
Thanks

By: KDesigns

KDesigns — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:31:45 +0000

Thank you very much, I had a bootmgr problem and dont have vista disk as laptop came with restore on c: drive but couldnt access it, your solution was perfect, I downloaded the boot disk and repaired and everything working well now. Much appreciated

By: JH

JH — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:16:33 +0000

The download isn’t for a Vista install disc, otherwise it would be massive, as Vista comes on a DVD, and probably illegal. As it says on the Neosmart page pertaining to the CD, its merely a ‘repair’ thing for people who don’t have a Vista DVD and so can’t access recovery. It does not contain install.wim. The reason for the rather crude coding (and the ‘install’ option) of the thing is probably because the recovery disk creator was only included in the beta SP1 and ‘disappeared’ when it was released.