Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures

The Discussion

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  Regarding system recovery, I am finding windows 7 backup to be terribly slow.

  https://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.

   

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  Yeah I always end up scripting "robocopy" to run as a scheduled task instead of using Windows Backup.

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  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.

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  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

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  Our CDN has been contacted. Any chance you could run a trace and provide some data? This would be helpful.

  C

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  Charles: Happy to help. Let's take this off-line. Do you have an email address I can use to contact you?

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  https://channel9.msdn.com/Contact/

   

  Thank you!

  C

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  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.

   

   

   

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  You are referring to this issue? https://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

  C

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  I agree, the performance is abysmal, and I've given up trying to view or download videos from CH9.

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  How about now? Please try again.
  C

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  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.

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  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?