Creating a Windows repair cd

jsmoke · 30 Dec 2018 at 10:42

With the windows download, or repair, tool, do you need the full windows iso or is there another way, surely there is a tool suite iso you cancload to usb to will allow you to repair windows?

Deleted member 77746 · 30 Dec 2018 at 11:07

Yeh it’s called the windows repair tool which is built into windows that you can create a bootable iso or usb stick.

What part of Windows is it you need to repair?

jsmoke · 30 Dec 2018 at 11:09

So you don't need to full windows iso, or dvd?

Laptop won't go past splash screen.

Deleted member 77746 · 30 Dec 2018 at 11:11

jsmoke said:
So you don't need to full windows iso, or dvd?

Laptop won't go past splash screen.

So you didn’t create one before your pc broke? :rolleyes:

Is there any reason you can’t just download the ISO and make a new one? In the time you made this thread you could have had it download and booted by now.

jsmoke · 30 Dec 2018 at 11:14

I see what your saying, so you just d/l iso from microsoft?

Zefan · 30 Dec 2018 at 11:19

If you're talking about a very sparse but effective tool to sort out boot or other simple issues, I think you're talking about Windows PE.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-intro

It's probably easier to just download the actual iso as mentioned, unless you specifically need to use a much smaller storage device.

Dirk · 30 Dec 2018 at 12:05

jsmoke said:
I see what your saying, so you just d/l iso from microsoft?

Yes. Using the Media Creation Tool that you download from MS. I recommend using it to download an .iso and from that create whatever Bootable media you want.

Remember the Recovery Tools are included in the media. If you ever need to 'Recover' your OS you can do it in several ways. From the Desktop, (assuming you can still use it at this point), by simply running your installation media and starting the Recovery tools, or by using the Recovery Options when starting your PC and using the appropriate key (F8 or whatever) at the right time, or by Booting directly from your media and using the Recovery Tools from there.

Windows seems to put a Recovery partition on your drive by default now so you can use the F8 (whatever) method without any media at all. Check your Disk Management to see if you already have it.

If you ever use the inbuilt Windows Disk Image, it will ask you when completed if you want to create a Recovery Disk. Assuming you already have a Recovery partition and Installation media, i would say this is somewhat redundant!