Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/502713_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures Windows 7 is capable of certain levels of self-repair, as you've learned. One of the new capabilities in Windows is its ability to recover from serious failures that can impact the OS's ability to boot. How does Windows 7 handle these errors? Can you boot Windows 7 into Safe Mode or to an earlier functional state when something really bad happens? Yes. You can, depending on the nature of the problem. How?Stephan Doll, Pavan Kasturi, Desmond Lee and Baskar Sridharan make up most of the team that has enabled Windows 7 to be the most recoverable version of Windows to date. By ensuring that every Windows 7 machine has the ability to automatically diagnose and recover from most boot failures with little or no interaction from the user, this team's work promises to greatly reduce—or even eliminate—the impact of a serious issue that would otherwise cause significant pain for Windows 7 users.Tune in. en Sat, 25 May 2013 11:16:22 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 11:16:22 GMT Rev9 Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures Regarding system recovery, I am finding windows 7 backup to be terribly slow.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/3e08fc65-52f5-48ca-ae13-321cdfc44fbd

 

It took over 18 hours to backup a recently installed win7 client to a 2008 r2 server.  I have zero confidence that recovering windows from a backup would complete in a usable amount of time.

 

posted by SteveRichter

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952110180000000 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:50:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952110180000000 SteveRichter Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures Yeah I always end up scripting "robocopy" to run as a scheduled task instead of using Windows Backup.

posted by CreamFilling512

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952220170000000 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:53:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952220170000000 CreamFilling512 Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures There is a problem with downloading this .wmv if you live in Australia. The downloading stops after just 1.45MB. Other videos on Channel 9 have the same problem (again: if you live in Australia). Downloading from other US sites is not a problem.

posted by mntb

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952375120000000 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:11:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952375120000000 mntb Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures I just tried using the Silverlight viewer instead and it stops after a few minutes with the following error: "Media Failure. Try reloading the page or visiting the main site for assistance". It looks as if it managed to download about the same amount of data as before. So it looks as if it is not a Silverlight or Browser thingy but instead a data source issue.

 

I have now ended up using a US based Linux server to download the videos. It sure would be nice to get this problem fixed so that people in Australia don't have to do that Smiley

posted by mntb

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952382040000000 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:23:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952382040000000 mntb Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures Our CDN has been contacted. Any chance you could run a trace and provide some data? This would be helpful.

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posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952857980000000 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:36:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633952857980000000 Charles Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures Charles: Happy to help. Let's take this off-line. Do you have an email address I can use to contact you?

posted by mntb

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953055900000000 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:06:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953055900000000 mntb Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures http://channel9.msdn.com/Contact/

 

Thank you!

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posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953065200000000 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953065200000000 Charles Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures I remember trying this recovery, might've been on RTM I can't remember. It went something like:

 

1. Put in an empty SATA HDD alone (system hdd)

2. In BIOS set SATA to Legacy mode

3. Install Win7 completely

4. reboot and in BIOS set SATA to AHCI mode

5. Windows 7 RC bluescreens

6. It tries to self-repair and fails.

 

 

 

posted by androidi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953178200000000 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:30:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953178200000000 androidi Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures You are referring to this issue? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

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posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953761120000000 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:41:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633953761120000000 Charles Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures I agree, the performance is abysmal, and I've given up trying to view or download videos from CH9.

posted by elmer

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633954075780000000 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:26:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633954075780000000 elmer Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures How about now? Please try again.
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posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633954551080000000 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:38:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633954551080000000 Charles Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures I love your honestly, Charles; "chances are Windows OS will slow down over time."  As a long time Windows user I'm aware of this behavior.

posted by spottedmah

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633986945560000000 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:29:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c633986945560000000 spottedmah Re: Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures Windows 7 recovery is definitely improved over previous versions, its saved me from reformatting at least twice now. Is there a way to add recovery options directly to the boot menu like you could in XP?

posted by alinadulcescu

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c634098542930000000 Wed, 19 May 2010 08:24:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Recovering-Windows-from-System-Degradation-and-Boot-Failures#c634098542930000000 alinadulcescu