Windows 7 - Create a System Repair Disc on a Bootable USB Flash Drive

New version here without burning disc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHk6BNtwy5w
Create a USB flash drive which has the same functionality as a system repair disc - startup repair, system restore, image recovery, and command prompt. Some computers may take more time to boot from USB, although newer machines should boot faster. This method should also work with a USB hard drive. I will be working on a method to do this without burning a disc.

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[noisyass2]

HI hope you can "still" read this comment..

im having a problem on selecting the partition.. whenever i "select partition 1" , it says "THERE IS NO PARTITION SELECTED"

hence, i couldnt make it "active"

and also i noticed that from the partition list, there's an '*' before the partition 1 whereas in your video there shouldnt be one..

[mcbeatbox937]

@noisyass2 You should:

Use "list disk" and "select disk" to figure out which drive to use, you should be able to tell by the size of the drives.

Use "list partition" on the disk you selected to see if there is more than one partition.

If there is, you need to figure out which one to use and use "select partition X", where X is the number of the partition to use.

You have to have selected a partition for the "active" command to work.

[MzMuda87]

i tried that but it says "The media speed is incompatible with the device.This may be caused by using higher or lower speed media than the range of speeds supported by the device." it wont let me use the cd rom ? HELP !

[mcbeatbox937]

@MzMuda87 I would say try a different disc and see what happens. I don't remember if I tried to burn it on a CD or DVD but either should work.

[razer0072073]

how many times can i make this repair disk?

[mcbeatbox937]

You should be able to create the disk and unlimited number of times...

[Abnerfcastro]

For me it didn't work. It says that an operational system was not found in the pen drive.

[bonfido]

Brilliant, you save me 25 pound, I was going to buy external DVD ROM but this solved my problem

[prutsman]

Thank you so much!!

I was looking for a way to make this work.

USB is much faster and flexible than a DVD drive.

Keep up the good work!!

[YourPComputerNerd]

can some1 put a link to download da files

[bloodstar8]

Awesome thanks!!

[alfayed1991]

Thank you very much for your work .

[sharpEAGLES]

Thanks Thanks Thanks . problem solved . love you . Keep it up brother.

[lustyln]

i followed you till you pasted it to the other removable drive it wont let me i have the dvd rw and the dvdrom thats it it wouldnt let me paste to the other one which is d i used e for the blank disk to create on ,but now it will let me right click on e the dvdd rw so what do i sdo now

[fiveryanfrenzy]

hard drive getting full!!

[bossgiancana]

can you use the recovery disk with other computers that once had win 7 on it or does it only work on one computer?