Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by msmith Unsolved. Waheed Din UK 2 Bronze. How to re-install Vista with no CD??? What do I do?? All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies You can click the title below and use the form to escalate this issue.
RobinBredin 5 Rhenium. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. Can't find what you're looking for? These include helping a system with startup issues to boot, enabling you to run an offline system restore , a command prompt where you can use tools such as Diskpart, run the Windows memory diagnostic and restore a full system image backup if your installation is beyond repair.
The problem with this though is if you own a branded computer or laptop such as Acer, Dell or HP, the chances are they only provided you with a recovery partition or a recovery DVD without the proper Windows DVD. In other words, you need to make your own system repair disc through Windows. A simple scenario where a repair disc would be useful is if you decide for whatever reason that you want to install Windows XP as well as your current Windows.
The system repair disc would be able to reinstall the correct bootloader to make all operating systems bootable. Most other repair discs made by Windows and uploaded to websites have just about all been taken down from the internet by Microsoft actively seeking their removal, for some reason. Although not immediately obvious in Windows Vista, it does come with the ability to create the repair CD which you can use to repair things like the boot sector, boot failure issues or various other problems.
The odd thing about Vista is it appears the function to create the disc was removed in Service Pack 1 onwards. What you need to do if you have Service Pack 1 or 2 installed is to use the original Recdisc. You can download the correct version for your operating system architecture below:. Recdisc for Vista bit Recdisc for Vista bit. If you have UAC on, run the tool and click the Manual button to the right. If done correctly, you should now be able to run the repair disc creator.
Go to Start or press the Win key and type recdisc. All you have to do is press Win or go to Start and type recdisc, then follow the prompts by selecting the optical drive with a blank CD and pressing the button. Unfortunately, with Windows 8 Microsoft has gone back to playing around with the recovery disc feature like they did in Windows Vista.
All is not lost though because you still get the new to Windows 8 feature of writing the repair disc directly to USB flash drive. Then make sure the flash drive is inserted and press Next. After a short while the USB recovery drive will be created.
I replaced the recdisc. Back up , two words, is the act of making a backup. See also: backup Click on the term for full definition. A backup is nothing more than an additional copy of data, ideally kept in a different location than the original. An image backup is a complete copy of a hard disk or other media being backed up. The copy is complete in that it can be restored to a completely empty hard drive — as in a replacement hard drive after a failure — and the result is a hard drive that contains everything that the original did.
See also: UEFI. A partition is a division of the area on a physical hard disk or disk-like device into one or more logical disks. A dialog box is a window that appears on top of a main application or other window or occasionally no window at all requesting user input. A virus is a computer program written by someone, with the presumed intent of spreading and causing grief.
This is to save all current content in case you want it later. Reformat the machine. Reinstall Windows from scratch. This typically means booting from a Windows set-up disk and letting the set-up program do its thing.
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