How to Repair Corrupted and Damaged System files in Windows 7?

David Darlington

Dec 03, 2020 • Filed to: Windows Computer Solutions • Proven solutions

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Is your Windows 7 system not working in an ideal way? Don't worry – there are plenty of ways to repair corrupted or damaged system files in Windows 7. By taking the assistance of Command Prompt, you can make it work in a trouble-free manner. In this guide, we will provide a step by step solution to teach how to repair corrupted and damaged system files in Windows 7. In addition to that, we will also provide the solution on how to recover corrupted files as well.

How to Repair Windows 7 Corrupt System Files

Even though Windows 7 is not as advanced as Windows 10 when it comes to system repair, there are still a few options to repair its corrupt files. For instance, you can go to Command Prompt and learn how to repair corrupted and damaged system files in Windows 7. All you need to do is follow these steps:

1. To commence with, go to the Start Menu and look for Command Prompt by typing "cmd". Once the icon of Command Prompt would appear, right-click it and launch it as an administrator.

   

   You might have to provide the account password of the administrator as well (if not logged in as an admin already). Once Command Prompt is launched successfully, provide the command "SFC /SCANNOW" and press Enter.

   

   The SFC or the System File Checker command will perform the needed operations to check for any damaged or corrupted Windows file. This might take a while, so you need to wait until the process is completed.

   

   Once it is done, you can view the results. For instance, you can know what files were corrupted and fixed by the SFC command.

In this way, you can learn how to repair corrupted and damaged system files in Windows 7 automatically. If you have installed any theme on your system, then it will revert it to the default explorer as well. Additionally, while the system is checking for a corrupted file, you should not close the explorer or restart your system in between. This might cause some unwanted damage to your system instead.

How to Repair and Recover Windows 7 with Bootable Media

By following the above-mentioned tutorial, you would be able to learn how to repair corrupted and damaged system files in Windows 7. Nevertheless, it is observed that at times the SFC feature doesn't yield the desired results. Also, you might not be able to access your content on your Windows system. In this case, you can use Recoverit Pro. Being one of the oldest and most trusted data recovery tools, it can easily retrieve your lost or deleted content. The latest Pro version has tons of advanced features as well on operating system crash recovery.

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Download and install Recoverit on your computer, get a blank USB drive, and connect to the computer. Launch Recoverit and follow the next steps to recover Windows 7 data.

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Step 1: Select the system crash data recovery mode

To recover your data from a non-working system, you need to create a bootable media at first. If your system is malfunctioning or corrupted, then you can install Recoverit Pro on another working Windows computer.

• Launch Recoverit, please select the "System Crash Data Recovery" mode.

• Create a bootable media

• Select a mode to create a bootable drive. You can select a USB bootable drive or CD/DVD bootable drive and click the "Create" button to start.

• Once you choose to create USB bootable drive an alert message about formatting USB flash drive will pop up. Make sure you have backup your important data before formatting the USB flash drive to create a bootable drive. Click the "Format now" button to confirm.

Step 2: Recover Windows 7 with Bootable Media

After create a bootable drive, you can copy data from Windows 7 and recover data from Windows 7 hard disk. But sometimes you will need to change the computer boot sequence, restart the computer, and entry the BIOS with the function key F12, or you can check the full solution to set the computer to boot from a USB drive.