Major Problems with Re-installing Vista Home Premium

Hey guys,

My Asus F8Sn (being used by my brother) crashed and I have successfully backed up the data with Puppy Linux. I am trying to re-install Vista Home Premium using the Windows Recovery Disc 32 bit, but upon entering the Product Key, the next screen shows this error:

''Windows cannot open the required file E:\Sources\install.wim. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation.".

It is also quite odd since the Error Code listed is Error code: 0x80070002, but according to a quick Google search, other people experiencing the missing file E:/Sources/install.wim, have the Error code listed as Errorcode:
0x80070570.

I re-burned the Windows Recovery Disc using ImgBurn at 4x speed (slower) and tried it again, but it didn't work.

I have not deleted the hard drive files yet so all the Windows files are still there, and I can access them through Puppy Linux. However, most files on two partitions (out of three) seem corrupted as they could not be copied. Those files were generally Windows files...

Anyone have any quick fixes or anything I can modify/try to make the installation work? Or by this time, should I already consider sending the notebook to Asus and possibly getting an upgrade to Windows 7 (if they offer such option)?

Any replies or suggestions would be appreciated...

 

Get another clean installation disk and try again.

cheers ...

 

Are you using the 'original' burned recovery disc or are you using a cloned one? You usually can't use a cloned recovery disc.

 

Its its a perfect copy it should work for the same model of the same company.

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On another note:
I assume your recovery partitin is still on the laptop, can't you do a recovery from that?

 

Thanks for the replies guys...

Hey kanehi. I'm not exactly sure which one I'm using. What exactly do you mean by cloned? I'm using the .iso file I downloaded from Neosmart found on this link. It may be a cloned version I guess?

Hey Detlev, I'm not sure of any websites with Asus OEM images for the Windows Recovery Disc. I was told before that the Recovery Discs didn't need to be company-specific and can pretty much work on any notebook brand. Is this true?

Also, I have tried accessing the recovery partition by booting off of the hard disk as I've read before too that I can access recovery for Asus notebooks there. Booting from the partition also did not work. I think there is really something severely wrong with the notebook, I just can't pinpoint what it exactly is.

Perhaps corrupted registry files? Backing up everything was not successful and many errors came up during the transfer process. Now I can't even delete those folders on the external hard disk for some reason. So I resorted to just backing up important folders in Documents.

Any other suggestions? Or should I go ahead and let Asus take care of it?

 

That is NOT a Windows disk, it is a Windows Recovery Environment.

It is used to fix problems with Windows booting and make simple repairs; it replaces the windows recovery console present in early OSs.

It does not have the entire OS on it and cannot be used to reinstall Windows

 

Well, Recovery discs come in different flavours.
If you have a vanilla Vista recovery disc, with drivers on a second disc, you could possibly use it on another computer, but it will not activate and you'd need to find out how to use the legal licese key on the bottom of the computer.

If however you have a whole recovery console, it definitely is manufacturer specific.
I don't think it was ever settled how model specific they are, but there is potentially some of that too.

On the registry angle - a corrupt registry would not affect the recovery partition.

I am just thinking - can you test the HDD? check it has no bad sectors?
And that Smart is OK.