Solved can i use my windows 8 repair disc on a windows 8.1

spiderlucci

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I updated to windows 8.1 for a test drive.

My windows store apps work now which is good and so far have not seen any problem just yet.

However, if I do encounter a problem and need to use my repair disc. Will it work with a windows 8 repair disc?

Note: can not use a recover because my bios does not let me boot from a USB drive.

Now, I Do Know You Can make a CD or disc that will let you boot from your USB drive using

Plop - Documentation / Manual / Examples - Free Boot Manager, builtin usb driver, native usb, boot different operating systems, cdrom, usb, freeware, option rom bios but rather use my own CD If I can.


Thanks Again :D
 

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Nope too many files are different even the kernel is different.
 

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You are welcome just sorry it was not the answer you were looking for, it seems M$ keeps stripping things out.
 

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You are welcome just sorry it was not the answer you were looking for, it seems M$ keeps stripping things out.

I can always burned to a CD on to a disk, and enables it to boot to a USB drives. hopefully enough people complain to MS And Maybe they Can Either Send Us A CD Or Have An Update.

Thanks
:)
 

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Windows 8.1 no longer offers the option to create a rescue disk; however, the recovery drive option is still there:

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I made a CD and can also use it to repair my OS. Yes I said it. Repair. I download the ISO and made a clean install from the upgrade. Also that link I posted will male your USB. Boot from the CD drive as well.
 

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It won't make a repair disc but I made N ISO that will not only boot but it should repair it. Also like I said the link... MS seem to make you jump through hoops.:rolleyes:
 

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so I'm on a ultrabook, and I got no optical drive, can I put it on a usb stick?
 

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so I'm on a ultrabook, and I got no optical drive, can I put it on a usb stick?

If you have a modern UEFI BIOS then it normally will only run a Windows signed boot drive or usb.
The only disk image companies that can provide a bootable recovery drive that I know of are Easus ToDo and Paragon. Nero recovery disks, for example, will not boot.

Easus sent me an ISO file to make a bootable CD. You can also use that to make a bootable USB thumb drive or external hard drive that will boot a Windows 8 repair program. My recovery CD works.

If you do have an older BIOS then rescue disk or USB booting is straightforward and will work.

There must be thousands of people regularly backing up drive images that will be very disappointed they cannot actually run them to repair crashes, virus attacks. Microsoft still does not work for users but for its own blinkered satisfaction. I am working towards the Chromebook solution of secure, maintenance free computing as soon as possible. It is staggering to consider the hours of frustration and total waste of human lifetimes in the world trying to maintain ever more complex and incompatible systems.
 

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  • OS
    Win 8
so I'm on a ultrabook, and I got no optical drive, can I put it on a usb stick?

If you have a modern UEFI BIOS then it normally will only run a Windows signed boot drive or usb.
The only disk image companies that can provide a bootable recovery drive that I know of are Easus ToDo and Paragon. Nero recovery disks, for example, will not boot.

Yes but presumably the Windows recovery drive created by Windows itself, as mentioned by my2cents, will boot OK. You could then use that to restore a system image.
Windows 8.1 no longer offers the option to create a rescue disk; however, the recovery drive option is still there

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5132-recovery-drive-create-usb-flash-drive-windows-8-a.html
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8.1, 10
so I'm on a ultrabook, and I got no optical drive, can I put it on a usb stick?

If you have a modern UEFI BIOS then it normally will only run a Windows signed boot drive or usb.
The only disk image companies that can provide a bootable recovery drive that I know of are Easus ToDo and Paragon. Nero recovery disks, for example, will not boot.

Easus sent me an ISO file to make a bootable CD. You can also use that to make a bootable USB thumb drive or external hard drive that will boot a Windows 8 repair program. My recovery CD works.

If you do have an older BIOS then rescue disk or USB booting is straightforward and will work.

There must be thousands of people regularly backing up drive images that will be very disappointed they cannot actually run them to repair crashes, virus attacks. Microsoft still does not work for users but for its own blinkered satisfaction. I am working towards the Chromebook solution of secure, maintenance free computing as soon as possible. It is staggering to consider the hours of frustration and total waste of human lifetimes in the world trying to maintain ever more complex and incompatible systems.

Paragon 12 is signed.
 

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I think somebody was asking for a cd/dvd instead of usb ? Like recdisc makes in win7.

MS doesn't include a way to do that , but it should be pretty easy.
 

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    7/8/ubuntu/Linux Deepin
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so I'm on a ultrabook, and I got no optical drive, can I put it on a usb stick?

If you have a modern UEFI BIOS then it normally will only run a Windows signed boot drive or usb.
The only disk image companies that can provide a bootable recovery drive that I know of are Easus ToDo and Paragon. Nero recovery disks, for example, will not boot.

Yes but presumably the Windows recovery drive created by Windows itself, as mentioned by my2cents, will boot OK. You could then use that to restore a system image.
Windows 8.1 no longer offers the option to create a rescue disk; however, the recovery drive option is still there

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5132-recovery-drive-create-usb-flash-drive-windows-8-a.html

You are right but the Windows image recovery in Advanced is well hidden and you need to have your USB boot drive ready before Windows fails. I don't think many average users would do that or even know where Windows image restore was hidden or even if it works provided they even knew how to use it. They probably are only restoring an image when the computer is not working and may have no internet access to help. My point was that they have some proprietary image software that does not tell that when you come to use it - it might not work - when all versions of Windows and BIOS before it worked like a charm. The Windows image restore may or may not work - until you try it at time of need you just don't know. We have gone backwards for no gain.

Who knows what a mess might happen if, in panic, they press the F12 key for an OEM built-in restore to W8.1 that is meant only for a W8.0 OS restore.
 

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    Win 8
Best thing is probabaly to make a new image. You could use the recimg thing, but one of the free 3rd party programs is vastly better. The average user won't know to do that, sadly.
 

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