Making a repair disc now can assist you to avoid spending more money and time later.
The procedure of making a Windows 7 System Repair Disc is outlined in this article. This will allow you to use a robust collection of diagnostic and repair utilities developed by Microsoft, including Command Prompt, Startup Repair, System Restore, System Image Recovery, and Windows Memory Diagnostic.
How to Make a System Repair Disc for Windows 7
To create the disk, you will need an optical drive capable of disc burning (which you most likely already have; these are fairly popular). Unfortunately, a flash drive is not an acceptable bootable media in this particular situation.
Note: Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7 in January 2020. For the purpose of continuing to get security updates and technical assistance, we advise updating to Windows 10 or Windows 11.
This should just take about five minutes to complete this very simple process:
- Place a blank Disc into the optical drive.
Note: A blank Disc ought to have sufficient space for a System Repair Disc. With a fresh Windows 7 32-bit installation, we made a Windows 7 repair CD that weighed in just 145 MB. Of course, it’s also OK if all that you have is a blank DVD or Blu-ray disc.
- Browse to All Programs > Start > Maintenance.
Tip: The Run box or a Command Prompt window can also be used to run recdisc. In that case, continue forward to Step 4 below.
- To create a system repair disc, select it.
- The Drive drop-down box allows you to select your optical disc drive.
- Choose “Create disc.”
Using the blank disk you inserted in the previous step, Windows 7 will now generate the System Repair disk. You do not need any specific disc burning software.
- You can dismiss the dialog box that Windows shows once the System Repair Disc creation is completed. On the Create a system repair disc window that appears on the screen, select OK.
Note: This procedure is just as effective for creating a Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows 8 System Repair Disc, but there is definitely a better way to do it. Check out the instructions in How to Make a Windows Recovery Drive.
Utilizing the System Repair Disc for Windows 7
Once the repair disc has been generated, name it properly, such as “Windows 7 Repair,” and store it in a secure location.
The collection of system recovery tools for Windows 7 that you can get by booting from this disk is now accessible. The same as with booting from any disc, you will have to keep an eye out for the notification that says “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD.”