How to boot your computer when the battery is weak

Have you encountered the problem of being unable to boot your computer?

Well, I have. One of the reasons is weak battery connected to CMOS and I have learnt of a way to overcome this.

If this happens at night and you have no place to buy a CR2032 lithium battery to replace it, let me teach you a method to boot your CPU. The trick is very simple.

You just start your computer and quickly press F2 to force the computer to go to the configuration stage. Now, click 'Load Default CMOS Setting' or something to this effect. Then, click save and exit and press OK. Now, your computer should be able to bott.

I hope this finding is useful to my dear readers.

Two ways to restore my system

I related my failure in creating a rescue boot disk or Repair Disk Windows 7 64-bit under Windows 7 in my last post. Well, I later surf the Internet to look for one and a kind soul had put a torrent link for the said disc. Of course I seized the opportunity to download it.

I burnt the iso file to produce the repair disc. Being adventurous, I booted the disc and it worked and so I tried to restore the system which I saved earlier, risking a crash, of course. I was lucky as everything ran well and my Windows 7 stayed intact.

Now, I am more confident of restoring my Windows 7 should anything happen to the system because I can restore my system image system using Macrium Reflect or this present disc that I owned now. If one fails, I can use the other one to do the restoration of my system.

If you want the repair disc , then search the Internet and the torrent link for it is there. By the way, there is one for the 32-bit Windows 7 system too besides the 64-bit iso file that I downloaded.

Backing up Windows using a free version software

I used to write about reinstalling Windows using Norton Ghost in
my earlier posts. In today's post, I am going to tell readers the free version of a software called Macrium Reflect which can do the same job. I used it to make an exact image of my smooth-running Windows 7 Home Premium. Then I created a self-booting Rescue Disk from this software. After that I risked crashing my Windows to restore my system. Well, it worked perfectly.

You can download Macrium Reflect from the following URL.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Follow my instructions to make an image of your computer and create a self-booting Rescue Disk.
1 Start running Macrium.
2 For backup, highlight C or whatever name you gave it.
3 Then go the bar on top to click backup.
4 For target disk, choose a local drive.

After this, go to Other Tasks on the top menu bar and click Create a Rescue disk. The software will create a boot disk for you. To try out, delete one program from your hard disk. Then boot your computer with this rescue disk and restore your system image. Now you can see that the deleted program is back to show that the restore function works.

I had actually tried to backup using windows backup software but I wasted three disks trying to create the so-called Repair disc Windows 7 64-bit but always ended with error message 0X0011002000001012 and gave up. Then I searched the Internet and found this useful software which I would like to share with readers here.