john_from_ohio wrote:You can find from ( free ) microsoft digital river downloads an ISO of Win 7 including SP1 install that you can download and burn ... its legit.It may be that a Win 8 install disk can also do this recovery ... have not tried that...
john_from_ohio wrote:As I noted along here somewhere ( probably several times ) creating a Win 7 recovery disk DOES NOT WORK on these systems.It is a windows problem ... Boot it up with a Win 7 install disk that has SP1 already on it ... and use that...
On the g75vw-bbk5, once a system image has been done to a capacious external HDD and the win 7/64 repair dvd has been created by the win 7 utility, I can't seem to get the system to boot from the Repair DVD (though I've done this with other hardware ...