Some weeks ago I had a computer that doesn't boot at all (Disk boot failure.). EasyRE can be purchased here, use 'play demo' for a nice video walk-through of features: I intend keeping it in my arsenal of PC repair tools for the next time Windows won't boot on one of my PCs. A single successful use could easily justify the cost. I feel that EasyRE is quicker, easier but most importantly more powerful and feature rich that the Windows installation disk. I'm sure that it would have fixed my problems if they were software only, but I am almost certain the hard drive is physically broken.

The EasyRE software boots up well and seems to contain all the features it claims to. Creating a bootable USB was a little more difficult but using the instructions contained in the email I received with my purchase I was able to create the bootable USB using EasyBCD which I was able to obtain for free for personal use only.

I decided to create a USB because it may run faster on the machine (it didn't). Burning it to a CD was very easy and painless. I am unsure what will happen when new versions are released but it seems the single download of the current version is all you get. I am going to take it into the repair shop to see if they can recover my files.Īs far my experience with EasyRE the purchase and download process was very pleasant. I think the laptop hard drive is just physically broken at this point. It freezes on the black Starting Windows screen. While the drive is hooked up, I selected my working hard drive to boot from. I was starting to think the EasyRE software must not be very good so I tried hooking the drive up to my desktop PC. I tried the partition editor, where only the bootable USB drive showed up, the hard drive wasn't shown at all.

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