That is, returning them to the previous version is a unique feature of Windows, which is supported in all new versions of the OS.

Windows saves previously installed drivers and allows you to automatically restore them, which makes it possible to significantly save time if it causes system or peripheral devices to malfunction.

To restore the driver:

1. You need to log in operating system Windows under account administrator.

2. Find the “My Computer” icon, right-click on it and select “Properties” from the drop-down menu.

3. On the “Control Panel” tab, click on the “Device Manager” button.

4. In the list of devices, double-click the branch corresponding to the inoperative device. For example, clicking on the “Video Adapters” branch reveals its contents.

5. Select the device you are interested in and click on it and click “Properties” in the context menu.

6. In the new dialog box, select the “Driver” tab and click “Roll Back”.

7. By clicking “Yes”, confirm your choice in the window containing the message “Are you sure you want to restore the previously installed archived version of the driver?”

8. The previous driver will be restored. Click the close window button. 9. Close the Device Manager window, click the “OK” button and restart Windows.

In the worst case scenario, when the driver fails system devices crashed the entire OS, you can return to driver recovery by booting your computer in safe mode. It is also possible to return the system to a previous working state using the “Return to Last Known Good Configuration” feature.

The ability to restore a system is an alternative solution that allows you not only to return to the previous hardware configuration, but also to abandon all changes to the software and registry.

Mar 3 2015

How to recover Windows system 7 on a laptop, a black screen appears when loading, the recovery environment does not work, I deleted all the 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 programs Reserve copy data.

How to restore Windows 7 system

Unfortunately, there are many reasons for this problem, ranging from incorrectly written drivers, harmful effects of a virus, errors file system and ending with our erroneous actions when working with a computer, there is no need to be afraid of such problems, you need to learn how to deal with them effectively.

Let's think about how to restore a Windows 7 system, and also insure ourselves in the future against 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 the System Recovery Options are not loaded and the F-8 button will be useless.

Has in its arsenal quite powerful and good tool-> Recovery environment, which is created automatically when installing Windows 7 in a hidden partition and contains five other tools that solve numerous malfunctions and problems.

Note: If you learn to use the tools correctly Windows recovery 7, and this is not difficult, you can do without additional and paid data backup programs.

You can launch the recovery tool by pressing the F-8 button on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer. After this, the menu Additional boot options will open in front of you: Troubleshoot your computer, then Safe mode, Safe Mode with Boot network drivers etc.

A small digression: Before selecting Troubleshoot your computer, try the easier option - Last Known Good Configuration - in simple words, the operating system always remembers the last successful boot of the computer and enters this information into the registry.

If there are problems loading, Windows can remember the registry settings and driver settings that were used when the system was last successfully booted and use them if you select the Last Known Good Configuration option.

If this tool does not help, select the first -> Troubleshoot computer problems.

Next, we get to the Windows 7 System Recovery Options menu, this is what we need, this is where we can select the System Restore Tool we need, there are five of them 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 booting the computer, you may not have the 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 in the root of the drive (C:) in the Recovery folder. You can also see in the Disk Management window - separate, hidden section hard drive, its volume is only 100 MB, it is used for storage boot files boot configuration (BCD) and system bootloader (bootmgr file).

You can see it under Computer->Management->Disk Management. Under no circumstances should you delete this partition (many people delete it out of ignorance), otherwise you will not have the recovery environment start, that is, you will not have the Troubleshoot your computer option, and in more severe cases, you simply will not boot the system.

In the lower screenshot you can see another hidden partition, with a capacity of 9.02 GB, this is a hidden recovery partition with factory settings on my laptop, yours may be larger or smaller. It’s also better not to delete it; if necessary, you can always restore Windows 7 from it.

What should you do if you do not have a partition with a recovery environment and when you press the F-8 button in the Additional boot options menu, the Troubleshooting computer option does not appear? How then to restore the Windows 7 system?

An installation disk with the Windows 7 operating system can help here. You can run the recovery tool by booting from the original installation Windows disk 7, selecting System Restore at the very beginning.

If installation disk s you don’t have, then you can use the Windows 7 Recovery Disk (you can make it in any running Windows 7) in five minutes, then you can also boot from it and do the same.

So we finally got to the System Recovery Options, either using the F-8 button and the Troubleshooting item, or the Windows 7 installation disk or the Windows 7 Recovery Disk.

In the System Restore Tools Selection menu, select the first one:

Startup recovery-> there will be an analysis of faults that interfere with normal booting Windows 7 and their further correction for normal loading and functioning of the operating system.

During the process, we may be warned that problems have been detected in the boot parameters, 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 and loaded perfectly, everything is simple here.

Restoring a system image-> I personally use this tool; if used skillfully, it can be replaced paid programs on data backup, if interested, read on.

What's good about it? It will help when you don't have the original Windows 7 installation disk and you've deleted the hidden partition with your laptop's factory settings, 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 options Downloads will also be unavailable. Should I reinstall the operating system again?

Therefore, immediately after installing Windows 7 on your laptop or computer, using this function -> Restore system image, we create an archived image of our Windows 7 on the hard drive, and take care of it.

It is imperative to create a Windows 7 Recovery Disk (read below), it will help you use the System Image if the Advanced Boot Options menu does not load.

Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Back up computer data.

Select “Create a system image”.

In my case, Local disk (E:), if you have system unit some hard drives, then of course it is better to place the backup on the hard drive where the operating system is not installed.

By default, the data archiving program will automatically select a partition with the Windows 7 operating system; if you wish, you can add Local disks for archiving, as long as you have enough space.

Note: You may notice that I have two operating systems installed on my laptop, so the archiving program selected two Local disks.

Click Archive and the process of creating an archive with our Windows 7 will begin.

Created, it will look like this.

Now, if necessary, you can deploy the archive with Windows 7 to your computer in 20-30 minutes. It would be better if you additionally copy the archive with the system onto a portable one HDD, this way you will protect yourself doubly.

Let's imagine 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 is on Local disk, where the operating system is now being restored, will be deleted, so you can first boot from any Live CD and copy what you need.

How else can you restore your Windows 7 system? Of course, using the Windows 7 Recovery Disk.

Let's create one that can be used to boot the computer; it will contain recovery tools that can be used to repair Windows 7 boot problems, as well as restore the operating system from the backup copy that we created in advance.

Important: For a recovery disk, the bitness of the system is important, 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.

Let's go again Archiving computer data.

Create a system recovery disk, insert the DVD into the drive, click “Create disk”.

When Boot Disk Windows 7 recovery will be ready, put it in a safe place.

To restore Windows 7 from a Recovery Disk, you basically don’t need any working operating system at all.

You will only need to change the boot priority to the disk drive in your computer’s BIOS, insert a recovery disk into it and restore your Windows 7 using the archive.

Many here can draw an analogy with data backup programs, and this is correct, they work on the same principle, only their functionality is, of course, more convenient.

Recovering Windows 7 from a Recovery Disk. I show you how to do it. Let's say we're in trouble, we can't start Windows 7, when we press F-8 on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer, nothing happens.

We cannot get to the menu with Additional boot options and an error message is displayed. In this case, the system archive on the hard drive is not available to us. This is exactly the kind of trouble that happened to our reader Ilya, who wrote us a letter asking for help.

In this situation, many people reinstall Windows 7 from scratch, but not you and me, because we have a System Recovery Disk.

We insert it into the drive and reboot, set it to BIOS loading from the drive, as I said, the boot disk starts the System Recovery Options program.

Press Enter until the prompt to boot from the disk disappears.

Automatically, the recovery tool running from the disk will try to recover Windows startup 7.

If nothing works, select any tool, for example, try Restoring a computer using a previously created operating system image.

We use the latest available system image.

What other ways are there to restore Windows 7?

There is another little-known way to restore Windows 7 boot after a failure, and I’ll tell you about it. At first glance, it may 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 lie in registry errors. And Windows 7 would not be Windows 7 if it did not have a mechanism that protects registry files. Such a mechanism exists and creates backup copies of the registry in the RegBack folder every 10 days, regardless of whether you have system recovery enabled or not.

If you cannot solve problems loading Windows 7, you should try replacing the existing (and apparently damaged) registry files from the Config folder with archived files from the RegBack folder. To do this, we will have to boot the computer from the Windows 7 installation disk or the Windows 7 recovery disk.

Boot into the recovery environment and 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:, please note, the drive letters here may be mixed up, but the system drive C:, I think you can recognize it by the system drive letters located inside Windows folders and Program Files.

We go to the folder C:\Windows\System32\Config, here are the active registry files, specify the File Type - All files and see our registry files, we also see the RegBack folder, in which 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 from the C:\Windows\System32\Config folder the files SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM, 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 backup copy, that is, from the RegBack folder.

Note: The SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM files cannot be deleted 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, if the operating system does not boot, it is done in exactly the same way as in Windows 8.

What else do we have left of Windows 7 recovery tools?

Memory diagnostics 7-> checks system memory for errors. Command line -> using it you can delete files that interfere with loading Windows 7.

I hope our article on how to restore Windows 7 system helped you.

Hello dear visitors. After installing the operating system, in most cases this is Windows 7, the question arises, what to do next, what needs to be configured and installed? I can’t even count how many times I’ve installed Windows 7 and I’ve already developed a habit whereby I configure the newly installed operating system and install the most necessary ones to the average user programs.

Now I will tell you what you need to do first after installing the Windows 7 operating system.

Right click on the icon "My computer" on the desktop, and select “Properties”. At the bottom of the page there will be information on activating the OS. If you see the message that Windows 7 is activated, then everything is ok, you can move on to another item.

Well, if you see messages like “XX days left. to complete the activation.” Then you need to activate the operating system. I think you know how to do it :). WITH Windows activation 7 There shouldn't be any problems now.

And one more thing, if a computer “wizard” installs your operating system, be sure to check whether it is activated. I have seen cases where no one activates anything, probably in order to get a client again after 30 days.

If everything is normal, and all devices are recognized by the system, then you will see something like this:

If there unidentified devices, or problems with some drivers, they will appear with yellow exclamation marks.

Hello, friends!

Finding and installing drivers is a real headache for many novice PC users.

In this article, we will look at several examples of where and how to look for drivers for your computer or laptop.

Most often, the problem with finding drivers occurs after reinstalling the Windows operating system. I wrote about how to reinstall Windows using a disk in this. Windows installation from a flash drive

How do I know which devices need drivers installed? To do this, right-click on the computer icon → select the properties tab → Device Manager.

In this example, all drivers are installed correctly and work correctly. If one of the items shows question mark, which means we will need to search for a driver for this device.

Usually, when you purchase a laptop or assembled computer, it comes with a disk with the necessary drivers and utilities. The laptop comes with one disk with all the drivers, and the computer separately; usually these are drivers for the chipset, video card, driver sound card, lan..etc. Everything is simple here, install the disk and start installing the necessary drivers.

Before searching for device drivers for your system, I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the five hardware ones. If there is no driver disk, use method 2.

Download drivers from the manufacturer's official website

Let's look at an example Asus laptop K42f. Go to the official Asus website and enter this model in the search. Select the tab → download and indicate your operating system (you can find out the system by going to → My Computer → (rpm) → Properties).

We are looking for all the necessary drivers. The most important drivers are Chipset, Sound, VGA, LAN (network) drivers, etc. If this method does not help, use the next, third method.

Search for a driver by device code.

Let's go back to Device Manager. Computer → pcm → Properties. Let's say we don't have an audio controller driver...see the picture.

Right-click on it and select → properties. IN open window select the “Information” tab, and in the drop-down menu you need to select → “ Equipment ID" (in Windows XP " Device Instance ID»).

Example of such code VEN_8086&DEV_0046. Select it with the left key and copy it by pressing the key combination Ctrl+C. Now go to the website www.devid.info In the search field paste ( Ctrl+V) copied code.
Click “Ok”, after which a list of drivers for this device will appear → download and install. It didn’t work → use the 4th method.