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Windows 7 is a very solid OS – I’ve never encountered any big crashes or errors I had to dig around to fix. However, no OS is perfect, and in the case that Windows 7 does crash and mess up system files, you might be stuck in quite a jam. However, Windows 7 has a lot of tools to help recover Windows – one of them being a Windows 7 Repair Disc. 

What does the Repair Disc do? The Windows 7 Repair Disc comes with a set of utilities to help revive a Windows install. Tools include automatic startup repair, restoring to an image backup, and even access to a command prompt window. You can boot from the repair disc to access the utilities, whether or not your Windows install still functions.

To create a repair disc, you must have a CD drive available. Netbook owners may have to get themselves an external CD drive to use. Pop in a blank CD, and in the Windows start menu, search for “Create a repair disc”. Run the application that the search brings up, and Windows will step you through.

The earlier you create a disc, the better – your system may crash soon and possibly refuse to boot up. When I was trying out and installing various Linux distributions, I found myself unable to boot into any OS – GRUB, the Linux bootloader, had gotten itself into an infinite loop, rendering it impossible to boot into any OS I had installed. Fortunately, I had my Windows 7 repair disc on hand, so, I used it to take over as bootloader by repairing the master boot record.