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I want to recovery Win7 from Linux and I dont have the Win7 CD or any previous back up files. Please tell me if there is a way to recovery Win7 from Linux because I do not want to boot it from the beginning cause I have important files and they are in one partition.

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Are you saying that you have a Windows 7 partition on your harddrive that you are trying to access through Linux? Or did you install Linux on top of Windows 7 on your drive? – Jared Harley Feb 5 '10 at 0:30
yes, i have a windows 7 and i have install sth (a virus or sth like that, cant understand what is it) and the win7 do not open (i cant right good the english and I do not know so much the computers) – elisi Feb 5 '10 at 1:00
I believe he wants to run System Restore from Linux. He does not want to reformat the computer because he has important files on the boot partition. – Hello71 Jul 15 '10 at 19:31
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I had to recover some files from a notebook that had Vista but the drive had some problems (could no longer remap read errors). Fortunately it was just some drive meta data and windows files.

I was able to use the system recover live cd quite easily to recover this - just burn this to a CD and boot/run off that. You will need a USB drive, a second good disk in the same system, or a working network and another computer/NAS drive.

However, this will not get you back your Windows 7 operating system unless you can use fsarchiver (I was not able to as the NTFS volume could not be mounted with r/w mode because of the damage to the meta data). After you copy off the files you will need to reinstall.

In my case, we didn't have the Vista CD (I'm in Korea right now and the CD was left in the U.S.), so we had to buy a new OS and got Windows 7 (much more happy with that anyway).

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