Back up cd for Windows is. My laptop keeps rebooting up and gets to a point and reboots. Won't get on. I figure hd going bad.?

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I can take the hd and place in another laptop and read it.  So my question.  Or one of them.  Can I create a recovery disk?  I had one done when I first got but we had a house fire (renting) so lost my CDs.

Second question then, if so, is there a way to create into a thumb drive instead of cd?   My new laptop I was able to do this.

The old laptop is an Asus g74 with Windows 7 64 bit.  Was a solid machine and would love to get it running again.  Hoping to not have to get another Windows cd.  I can get more info if needed later.  Heading to work.

I have another hd from an older Asus laptop.  It already has an is on it.  Tried that just to see and it boots up but can't do things.  Which is probably due to wrong hardware and software drivers installed.  If there is a way to use that instead then I am open to that as well.  Thanks.

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Try disabling automatic reboot. The option appears when you hold Ctrl (after BIOS) while starting the computer, and should appear along with Safe Mode and other options. This won't fix the problem, but should show you the error that is causing the restart, assuming it is an OS error.

This same menu also lets you boot into Safe Mode, which may help if Windows is running fine but a driver or other software is causing the error.

You can create a recovery disc using *any* Windows 7 x64 computer with a disc burner. (You won't be able to make the correct disk using 32-bit Windows.)

You can also download and burn the Windows 7 installation disc by visiting Microsoft's recovery site:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery

There are some third-party utility packages that can be stored on a flash drive, and used to diagnose your computer. I typically don't use them.

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Back up cd for Windows is. My laptop keeps rebooting up and gets to a point and reboots. Won't get on. I figure hd going bad.?

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