Creating System Repair Disc

When trying to create a System Repair Disc from the WIN7 Control Panel\Back Up & Restore function, I get an error 0x80070057. The CD/DVD drive has a blank CD in it, is connected and seen by Windows Explorer.

What is causing this error and how may I fix it?

 

"0x80070057" error message when you back up files in Windows 7

 

Thank you SpywareDr but that link refers to backing up files and suggests that the decimal point is not shewn as a full-stop (or period as you would call it). I checked anyway and the decimal point is correct.

No, my problem is that I get this error message after clicking on the "Create Disc" button in the "Create a System Repair Disc" function of "Backup and Recovery "

System repair disc could not be created. The parameter is incorrect (0x80070057)


There is nothing to tell you which parameter is incorrect or how to fix it, hence my intial query.

Happy Christmas

 

Did you follow the instructions in the "Let me fix it myself" section and reboot?

 

Hi Doc, I didn't do that at the time as I have an aversion to messing with the registry - an IT Manager once referred to it as doing brain surgery on yourself!

Despite that aversion, I followed it carefully, found the correct folder, despite there being a missing folder in the sequence, and carried out the operation as detailed.

Exited, rebooted and tried again to "Create A System Repair Disc" and received the same error message again.

I have to say that having trawled all over the Internet looking for a solution to this, no-one yet seems to have found one. Is this a Windows bug, as it seems to occur in XP, Vista and now 7?

 

Thank you for your input, Arie

No I'm not running encryption software but I'm interested to know where to get recdisc as I've searched on Windows Explorer for "recdisc" and it returned no finds.

Typing recdisc.exe into the "Run" feature just takes me to the same "Create System Repair Disc" function with the same result.

 

The default location is C:\Windows\System32\recdisc.exe

 

Thanks doc, it's weird that searching from the C drive root directory doesn't find it.

Any way, as I replied to Arie, it just returns the same error message.

What is it with windows that these inexplicable error messages appear with no clue or help to fix them. Even Microsoft support seems stumped on this one.

Just as a matter of interest, how can one get to DOS outside windows, i.e., from the bios?

 

Yes it is. I used "dir c:\windows\recdisc.exe /a /s" here on a couple different setups and it found it on both.

Kinda figured it would. Might want to run a "sfc /scannow" on it.

It is impossible for Microsoft, (or anyone else), to test their products with every possible combination of PC hardware and software available out there ... with more being released daily.

Did you try "Safe Mode with Command Prompt "

 

thanks Arie, I'll try it - again; that was what I was trying to do (install Windows 7 over XP) when WIN7 went looking for updates, closed down and now I cannot get it to boot again, either from the HDD or the CD/DVD which I have changed in the BIOS and changed back.

I figured that a System Repair Disc, made on this laptop, might be sufficient to boot the other laptop, as one made from a third laptop - running the same WIN7 as I was installing on the original XP laptop - did nothing.

So all I get on this WIN7 laptop is the error message above.

I asked about getting into DOS from the BIOS as I think that a full format of the laptop's C drive might allow me to start again with the WIN7 installation but I still do not know how to get from the BIOS to DOS and then to C:\format.

 

You would need to boot a Microsoft Operating System to get to a "DOS" C:\> prompt.

But, you don't really need to do that to do a format. The Microsoft Windows installation routine has allowed you to delete, create and format partitions since as far back as Windows XP (2001). Simply boot from the Windows 7 DVD and follow the onscreen instructions.

 

Thanks Doc but that is part of the problem as I replied to Arie:

that was what I was trying to do (install Windows 7 over XP) when WIN7 went looking for updates, closed down and now I cannot get it to boot again, either from the HDD or the CD/DVD which I have changed in the BIOS and changed back.

Hence my need to get to DOS, either via the BIOS (Which is the only thing I can get to by removing all power, holding the power switch for 30 secs, re-applying power (both battery and mains) and switching on. That then beeps at me (loudly) and only allows me to do F2 which takes me to BIOS.

The Laptop will NOT boot from WIN7 Installation disc at all; neither with CD/DVD selected as primary in BIOS nor with HDD selected as primary.

 

That is resetting the CMOS. You should not need to do it each startup. There is something that works when you set it, but doesn't next startup, maybe something like a "Quick Boot" setting.

Make sure there are no "drives" connected (like USB drives).

If I can't get a computer to boot into Safe Made, the only other fix I know is to do a repair installation of Windows, which means booting to the installation disk. Is the installation disk damaged? Usually nowadays, laptops have a "reinstallation" program on the hard drive in a hidden partition. Installation disks are becoming rare, although it means the manufacturer can charge you for disks if your harddrive breaks down (incentive not to provide a DVD).

Find out why the installation disk won't work. (Is it scratched?) Is the system trying to boot to the wrong drive (like a USB memory stick).

Matt
PS: I haven't looked extensively, but the only replacement I know for the old Windows Boot Disk is making a Windows PE disk.

 

Thanks Matt,
You will see by following the thread from the beginning that I was originally trying to make a System Repair Disc on this laptop, in order to try and get the other laptop which is giving me trouble, to boot into Windows and finish installing WIN7.

I now wonder if that will have the desired effect, as the other laptop ignores whatever is already there on the Hard Drive or in the CD/DVD Drive - no matter which is prioritised in the BIOS.

I'm thinking that maybe a 3.5" floppy Boot Disk is the answer as I have a USB floppy drive. If it will boot to DOS, I can then format the HDD and start again.

Watch this space!

 

Bootdisk.com

 

Microsoft don't use the term "System Repair Disc ", it is used by hardware manufacturers.

I guess you are trying to make a repair disk on a laptop that is not exactly the same model as the other. I doubt you will succeed. They are made for their own system/hardware.

Go to the problem laptop's support webpage and see how to reinstall the operating system. (Read in the operator/system manual.)
As I said, laptops usually have a specific method of Windows installation. You cannot transfer them from one to another.

Matt