If you previously created an image of the main partition hard drive, then at any time in the event of critical failures in Windows 7 can be deployed. No data written to this partition will be saved after the copy is deployed, but then you will not have to spend time searching and installing drivers and some necessary programs installed in the system immediately after its installation.
Archive desired sections disk can be on any available media - DVDs, an additional hard drive or an external hard drive with a USB interface. A separate partition on the same HDD will also work, but in this case data security is not guaranteed. If the device is damaged, part or all of the data on it may be lost, which fully applies to the created backup.
If the OS, albeit with errors, slowly, but loads and works, no recovery methods improve the situation, then deploy archival image it will be possible directly from under the loaded system. For this:
All old information will be lost from the disk to which the save will be deployed. If it is of value, then in the next window of the wizard, you can archive user files by clicking on the corresponding button below. 
To go straight to Windows Backup, click Skip, which will open a new window prompting you to continue after restarting your computer.
After the reboot, a couple of dialog boxes will appear in sequence, prompting you to select a language and enter user credentials. Next, you have to work with the main parameters window:
If after turning on the computer, the boot does not occur and it is not possible to boot into Windows in normal mode, try pressing F8 and open the window for additional boot options. From here you can get to the recovery options module if you select the very first troubleshooting item. 
Further steps have already been described in the section describing working with this tool. But with critical failures, often pressing F8 and trying to go to the boot options do not bring results. In this case, you can not do without the installation or boot Windows disk 7 and the recovery environment on it.
Sometimes the system archive can be useful not only for deploying Windows 7 if it cannot be cured, but also for extracting accidentally deleted important files that were saved in the archive. To do this, it must be connected as virtual hard disk:
It remains only to open the computer icon on the desktop again and make sure that a new one has appeared here virtual disk. You can work with it in the same way as with any partition, restoring any necessary information from there.
Before you create a copy of the system, you should decide on what or what drives you will store it. Users often use DVDs for these purposes, but you need to understand that then it will be possible to restore Windows 7 only by booting from a USB flash drive or other drive if the OS is no longer able to start on its own. You will have to act this way because this disk is not bootable.
Another problem often arises unexpectedly.. If, after creating a complete HDD image standard Windows tools If you have modified its partitions, then when you try to restore a copy, an error window may appear. It will inform the user about the need to format the drive from which the recovery environment was loaded. Even returning HDD partitions to the state before resizing them will not fix the situation. 
Restoring from an imagemeans replacing all personal data on your hard drive with files from the image or in other words, if you created an image of a local disk (C :) using the Data Archiving tool, then deploying this image in place, you will replace all your existing files on this disk with data from the image.The article is written as a continuation , where we learned how to create an image of the Windows 7 operating system in case of a serious malfunction, but here we will restore our data in place, even when our Windows 7 will not boot at all.
Note: If you are interested in the process on DVDs and a portable USB hard drive, as well as on an old hard drive IDE interface(connected to a laptop through a special adapter), follow the link and read.
According to my observations, serious users install Windows 7 and divide the hard drive into two volumes and call them names, for example (C:) and (D:). On the drive (C:) they have operating system Windows 7, and on (D:) all personal data. Next, they create a disk image (C:) and save it on another partition of the hard drive, that is, on (D:). The disk (D :) is not archived, since according to users, it is usually rare with it, which happens and this is actually the case. And then there was a problem with Windows 7, the system takes a long time to load, freezes and is unstable, our users, in the language of motorists, kick the wheels for a while (apply rollback using restore points), but the car still does not drive, and Windows 7 does not work ok then theyrestore from imagedrive (C:) and a working Windows 7 from the archive replaces the inoperable one, that's all.
How Windows 7 is restored from the backup image we created
Windows 7 is still working and starting, but with significant errors (below we will consider cases when the operating system does not boot at all), the rollback using restore points did not lead to success and we decide to restore the entire operating system from a disk image (C:).
Start -> Control Panel-> Archiving computer data->
Restore system settings or computer->
Advanced recovery methods->
in this dialog box, you can select the Archive button and the archiving setting will start, using it, you can create an archive of your data from the disks to which you will deploy the system image, thereby saving them, read more in our article . If we copied our data previously, click the Skip button.
Restart, the computer will restart and this keyboard layout selection window will appear
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The second option, you and I cannot boot into a working Windows 7 at all, how then to start recovery from an image
We turn on the computer and a black screen appears, for example, or blue screen With critical mistake. Launching the Tool Windows recovery 7, press F-8 in the initial phase of loading the computer. The menu opens, select Troubleshooting your computer.
The third option is the most difficult, but you can handle it: the screen is black, the Windows 7 Recovery Tool cannot be launched,Additional download optionsnot available when pressing the button F-8 Nothing happens. How to get to the created image with a working Windows 7. In this case, only the Windows 7 Recovery Disk, which contains the Recovery Environment, will help us.
So I'll show you how to restore Windows 7 from an image using a recovery disc. We insert it into the drive, reboot, the BIOS should be set to boot from the drive, then the System Recovery Options program starts.
We quickly press Enter, otherwise the offer to boot from the disk will disappear.
The recovery environment starts, again you need to select the keyboard layout,
use download the latest system imageand our Windows 7 is restored.The system image is always created with the extension vhd and is in the folder Windows Image Backup .
Backup is the most important procedure that every PC user should carry out. Unfortunately, most of us remember about backup only when important data is already irretrievably lost.
If you store on the hard drives of your computer not only entertainment content, but also important documents, work projects or databases, then you need to think about their safety. You should not forget about system files and settings, as their damage can deprive you of access to account, and hence to the data.
Acronis True Image is one of the most widely used and powerful Reserve copy, data recovery and storage. Acronis can create copies individual files, folders and entire drives. In addition, it includes an arsenal of tools for system security, boot repair, rescue media creation, and disk cloning.
The user is given space in the cloud on the server of software developers, which can be accessed, as well as program management, not only from a desktop machine, but also from a mobile device.
Aomei Backupper Standard is slightly inferior in functionality to Acronis, but it is also a very efficient tool. It includes utilities for cloning and creating boot disks on Linux and Windows PE, has a built-in task scheduler and a function to notify the user when e-mail about the results of the next reservation.
This is another combine for creating backups. Macrium Reflect allows you to mount copies of disks and files on your system to view the contents and restore individual elements. The main distinguishing features of the program are the functions of protecting disk images from editing, checking file system to identify various failures, as well as integration into boot menu operating system.
This program, in addition to backing up files and folders, allows you to synchronize the contents of backups and directories on local and network drives. Windows Handy Backup can also launch selected applications when starting or completing a backup procedure, send notifications by e-mail, and work through the Windows console.
Windows Repair is a comprehensive software for restoring the operating system. The program performs "treatment" of the system in case of failures in the firewall, errors in update packages, restrictions on access to system files by viruses, and also restores the health of some ports. To improve security, there is a disk cleaning function with flexible settings.
All software from the above list is designed to restore the system from backups created. Only Windows Repair stands out from the general picture, since the principle of its operation is based on the detection and elimination of errors in the file system and registry.
Most of the presented programs are paid, but the price important information stored on disks can be more than the cost of a license, and it's not just about money. Make backups in a timely manner key files And system partitions, to protect yourself from unpleasant surprises in the form of disk failures or hooliganism of malicious applications.
Oct 13 2013
How to do a Windows 7 system restore if your computer is unstable, the operating system does not boot at all, or just a black screen. See the video tutorial on how to run System Restore at the end of the article.
If you have Windows 7 operating system installed, then in this article you will learn different ways system recovery 7. In the last publication, we learned what are.
Surely you or your friends have encountered cases when Windows does not boot, or errors occur during the operation of the system. One way to fix this is to use Windows 7 System Restore.
Of course, there are other options for solving the problem, such as: safe mode, useful F8, system restore, installation or reinstalling windows and others.
The restore procedure or System Restore can be done in three different ways:
In order to start restoring the Windows 7 system, you first need to figure out what errors occur and whether the operating system boots at all. If it boots, then you can try to restore it from under Windows.
Go to the desktop, find the shortcut or icon Computer (My Computer), click on it right click mouse and go to Properties.
In the window for viewing basic information about your computer, go to the System Protection tab.
In System Properties, find the System Protection tab and click Restore.
Getting into Recovery system files and settings, click Next.
Select the desired date with a restore checkpoint. You can click the Show other restore points checkbox if there is no one you need among the presented points. Click Next.
We confirm the restoration, indicate the system disks that we want to restore and again Next.
We confirm the restore point, look again at its description, and if everything is correct, click Finish. There is also an option to create a password reset disk. You can save this information to either a floppy disk or a USB flash drive.
You may need it if you forget or lose your computer password. If you still forgot it, then you are here.
System Restore will not be able to be interrupted once it is running. Continue? We click Yes.
After that, the system prepares for its recovery, all open programs and applications, the computer goes into reboot. The next time you start Windows 7, if everything went well, then the following window appears. System restore was successful.
This is how system restore 7 is done, using standard means Windows.
But let's say that your Windows 7 operating system does not turn on and does not boot, how then to perform a recovery. To do this, we will use the second method of restoring the Windows 7 system.
A window of additional boot options appears, select any safe mode and press Enter (Enter = Select).
Right-click on My Computer and go to Properties, the screen should be black as shown in the screenshot.
Then go to Control Panel - Home Page.
Find and go to the Recovery tab (Restore the system to an earlier state).
To restore an earlier saved state of this computer, click the Start System Restore button. You can also select Advanced recovery methods.
After that, the Restore files and settings window appears.
Selecting a checkpoint >>> Confirming disk recovery >>> Confirming a recovery point >>> Starting the recovery procedure.
If the second method of system recovery did not help you, then the third option remains - we restore the computer with the Windows 7 installation disk.
Let's look at how to restore Windows 7 using the installation disk.
If nothing helped you, then do it, look for information on the Internet, call computer wizard home, contact service center for computer repair or ask your question in the comments to this article.
Today we have learned a lot useful information how to do a Windows 7 system restore in three ways: restore from Windows, restored through safe mode and used the Windows 7 installation disc.
And now let's watch a video tutorial on how to start system restore.
How to do a Windows 7 System Restore | website
Perhaps you have questions related to restoring the computer system. You can ask them below in the comments to this article, as well as use the form with me.
Thank you for reading me
Mar 3 2015
How to recover Windows system 7 on a laptop, a black screen appears on boot, the recovery environment does not work, I deleted all hidden partitions, there is no original disk with Windows 7.
I spent a lot of time, tell me what to do now, or at least how to insure myself against such situations in the future, preferably without using paid data backup programs.
Unfortunately, there are enough reasons for this trouble, ranging from incorrectly written drivers, the harmful effects of a virus, file system errors and ending with our erroneous actions when working with a computer, you don’t need to be afraid of such problems, you need to learn how to deal with them effectively.
Let's think about how to restore the windows 7 system, as well as insure ourselves for the future from possible troubles using the backup and recovery tools built into the operating system.
We will learn how to restore Windows 7 without using third party programs for backup even when System Recovery Options does not load and the F-8 button is useless.
It has in its arsenal quite powerful and good tool-> Recovery environment, which is created automatically when you install Windows 7 in a hidden partition and contains five other tools that solve numerous malfunctions and problems.
Note: If you learn how to use Windows 7 recovery tools correctly, and this is not difficult, then you can do without additional and paid data backup programs.
You can start the recovery tool by pressing the F-8 button on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer. After that, a menu of Additional boot options will open in front of you: Troubleshoot your computer, then Safe mode, Safe Mode with Boot network drivers etc.
Small digression: Before choosing the item Troubleshoot your computer, try the easier option - Last Known Good Configuration - in simple terms, the operating system always remembers the last successful boot of the computer and enters this information into the registry.
In case of problems with booting, Windows can remember the registry settings and driver settings that were used the last time the system was successfully booted and use them if you select the Last Known Good Configuration option.
If this tool does not help, select the first -> Troubleshoot your computer,
Next, we get to the Windows 7 System Recovery Options menu, which is what we need, it is here that we can select the System Restore Tool we need, there are five in total, let's take a closer look at how they all work.
The first thing to do is apply Startup Repair (Automatically fix problems that prevent Windows from starting).
Required digression: After pressing the F-8 button when the computer boots up, you may not have an item > Troubleshoot your computer, but only Safe Mode and so on, the question arises why.
When installing Windows 7, a recovery environment partition is created automatically and is located at the root of the drive (C:) in the Recovery folder. You can also see in the Disk Management window - a separate, hidden partition of the hard drive, its volume is only 100 MB, it is used for storage boot files boot configuration (BCD) and system boot loader (bootmgr file).
You can see it Computer-> Management-> Disk Management. In no case can you delete this partition (many people delete it out of ignorance), otherwise you will not start the recovery environment, that is, you will not have the Troubleshoot computer item, and in more severe cases you simply will not boot the system.
On the bottom screenshot, you can see another hidden partition, with a capacity of 9.02 GB, this is a hidden recovery partition with the factory settings of my laptop, you can have it more or less. It is also better not to delete it, if necessary, you can always restore Windows 7 from it.
What to do if you do not have a partition with the recovery environment and when you press the F-8 button, in the Advanced boot options menu, the Troubleshoot your computer item does not appear? How then to restore the Windows 7 system?
The installation disk with the Windows 7 operating system can save here. You can start the recovery tool by booting from the original Windows 7 installation disk by selecting System Restore at the very beginning.
If you don't have an installation disk, then you can use the Windows 7 Recovery Disk (you can make one in any running Windows 7) in five minutes, then you can also boot from it and do the same.
So, we still got into the System Recovery Options, either using the F-8 button and the Troubleshooting item, or the Windows 7 installation disc or the Windows 7 Recovery Disc.
In the System Restore Options menu, select the first one:
Launch Recovery-> there will be an analysis of faults that interfere with the normal Windows boot 7 and their further correction for normal loading and functioning of the operating system.
In the process, we may be warned that problems have been found in the boot options, click Fix and restart.
System Restore-> using this function, we can select a previously created system restore point, if we have it enabled, and roll back to the time when our Windows 7 worked fine and loaded, everything is simple here.
Restoring a system image-> I personally use this tool, with skillful use it can be replaced paid programs on data backup, if interested, read on.
Why is he good? It will help when you don't have the original Windows 7 installation disc and you have deleted the hidden partition with the factory settings of your laptop, but that's not all.
Sometimes there are situations when, for various reasons or due to the actions of a virus, you will not be able to load the operating system at all, or many people ask How to restore the Windows 7 system, even if the menu with Additional boot options is also unavailable. Reinstall the operating system again?
Therefore, immediately after Windows installation 7 to your laptop or computer, using this function we create -> System Image Recovery, an archive image of our Windows 7 on the hard drive, save it.
Be sure to create a Windows 7 Recovery Disc (read below), it will help you use the System Image if the Advanced Boot Options menu does not load.
Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Backup Computer Data.
Select "Create a system image".
In my case, the Local Disk (E :), if you have system block some hard drives, then of course backup is better place on the hard drive where the operating system is not installed.
By default, the data backup program will automatically select the partition with the Windows 7 operating system, if you wish, you can add Local drives for archiving yourself, as long as you have enough space.
Note: You can see that I have two operating systems installed on my laptop, so the backup program chose two Local drives.
Click Archive and the process of creating an archive with our Windows 7 will begin.
Created, it will look like this.
Now, you can deploy the archive with Windows 7 to your computer, if necessary, in 20-30 minutes. It would be better if you copy the archive with the system additionally to a portable hard drive, this will double your safety.
Let's pretend that we can't start Windows 7 and deploy the backup we created, let's do it together.
We launch the Windows 7 Recovery Tool by pressing the F-8 button on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer.
The Advanced Boot Options menu opens, select Troubleshoot your computer.
Restoring a system image
Use the latest available system image.
Of course, all our data on the Local Disk, where the operating system is now being restored, will be deleted, so you can pre-boot from any Live CD and copy what you need.
How else can you restore your Windows 7 system? Of course with the help of the Windows 7 Recovery Disk.
Let's create, which can be used to boot the computer, it will contain recovery tools with which you can repair Windows 7 boot problems, as well as restore the operating system from the backup copy that we created in advance.
Important: The bitness of the system is important for the recovery disk, you can use a 32-bit recovery disk for any 32-bit Windows 7, and a 64-bit recovery disk for any 64-bit Windows 7.
Again we go Archiving computer data.
Create a system recovery disc, insert the DVD into the drive, click "Create Disc".
When boot disk Windows 7 recovery is ready, put it in a safe place.
In order to restore Windows 7 from the Recovery Disk, in principle, no operating system is needed at all.
You will only need to change the boot priority to the drive in the BIOS of your computer, insert the recovery disk into it and restore your Windows 7 using the archive.
Many here can draw an analogy with data backup programs, and rightly so, they work on the same principle, but their functionality is of course more convenient.
Restoring Windows 7 from the Recovery Disk. I show you how to do it. Suppose we are in trouble, we cannot start Windows 7, when we press F-8 on the keyboard, nothing happens immediately after starting the computer.
We cannot get into the menu with Additional boot options and an error message is displayed. In this case, the system archive on the hard disk is not available to us. It was precisely such a nuisance that happened to our reader Ilya, who wrote us a letter asking for help.
In this situation, many reinstall Windows 7 from scratch, but not us, because we have a System Recovery Disc.
We insert it into the drive and reboot, put it in BIOS boot from the drive, as I said the disk is bootable, the System Recovery Options program is launched.
Press Enter until the offer to boot from disk is gone.
The automatic recovery tool running from the disk will try to repair Windows startup 7.
If all else fails, select any tool, try for example Recovering a computer using a previously created image of the operating system.
We use the latest available system image.
There is another little-known way to restore Windows 7 boot after a crash, and I'll tell you about it. At first glance, it will seem difficult to many, but nevertheless it often helps me out.
The fact is, friends, that a very large part of the problems due to which you cannot boot Windows 7 lies in registry errors. And Windows 7 wouldn't be Windows 7 if it didn't have a mechanism to protect registry files. Such a mechanism exists and creates archive copies of the registry in the RegBack folder every 10 days, regardless of whether you have system restore enabled or not.
If you can't fix problems booting Windows 7, you should try replacing the existing (and apparently corrupted) registry files from the Config folder. archive files from the RegBack folder. To do this, we will have to boot the computer from the Windows 7 installation disc or the Windows 7 recovery disc.
We boot into the recovery environment, select the command line.
We type in it - notepad, we get into Notepad, then File and Open.
We go into the real explorer, click My computer. Now we need system disk C:, attention, the drive letters here can be mixed up, but the system drive C: I think you can recognize by being inside system folders Windows and Program Files.
We go to the C:\Windows\System32\Config folder, the current registry files are located here, we specify the File type - All files and we see our registry files, we also see the RegBack folder, in it every 10 days the Task Scheduler makes a backup copy of the registry keys.
So, we will replace the existing registry files from the Config folder backup files registry from the RegBack folder.
So, first of all, let's delete the SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM files from the C:\Windows\System32\Config folder, which are responsible for all registry hives (my advice is to copy the registry hives somewhere before deleting just in case).
In their place, copy and paste files with the same names, but from a backup copy, that is, from the RegBack folder.
Note: You cannot delete the SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM files all together, delete them one by one. Then copy the same files from the RegBack folder in their place.
Friends, if this does not help, apply integrity restoration Windows files 7, in case the operating system does not boot, it is done in the same way as in Windows 8.
What else do we have left of the Windows 7 recovery tools?
Memory Diagnostics 7-> checks system memory for errors. Command line -> with it you can delete files that interfere with loading Windows 7.
I hope our article on how to restore a Windows 7 system helped you.
