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09-09-2016 11:56 PM
OS: Windows 7 Professional
I'm trying restore my computer to the factory settings. I have pressed ESC repeatedly during the start up of the computer. Select System Restore, but the computer just hoot to Windows Screen. I cannot login to the windows because the are some error when loading the windows.
Is there any other way for me to restore the system to its factory setting with a clean Windows 7?
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09-10-2016 12:36 AM
> is there a way for me to get the Recovery Disk?
Two ways:
1. from a working Windows system, running the same version (32-bit? 64-bit?) you can burn a "Recovery Disk";
2. find a friend with a "retail" Windows 7 Operating System DVD (be sure it's the same 32 or 64 bit as your system), and borrow the DVD from him/her, or get him/her to burn a copy of it.
09-10-2016 12:19 AM
If you have the "retail" Windows 7 Operating System disk, insert it.
Shutdown your computer.
Turn the computer on, and read the on-screen instructions on how to either "temporarily change the boot device", or "select a boot device".
Select the DVD drive.
It will start to load Windows from the DVD.
Choose "English", and click 'Next'.
The next screen will have a clickable option to "repair Windows".
Click it, and one of the options that will pop-up will be "System Restore",
i.e., restore your computer's system-files to the way that it was a few days ago.
Then, remove the DVD disk, and reboot, and see if "System Restore" has "time-warped" your copy of Windows back to a time when it booted normally.
09-10-2016 12:30 AM
But the problem is that I don't have any recovery disk. That why I was trying to restore the system through the System Restore Manager.
Also, is there a way for me to get the Recovery Disk?
09-10-2016 12:36 AM
> is there a way for me to get the Recovery Disk?
Two ways:
1. from a working Windows system, running the same version (32-bit? 64-bit?) you can burn a "Recovery Disk";
2. find a friend with a "retail" Windows 7 Operating System DVD (be sure it's the same 32 or 64 bit as your system), and borrow the DVD from him/her, or get him/her to burn a copy of it.