Freeware/opensource recovery backup tools.... for windows

[Guest MadmanRB]

Okay so here is the scoop inb my latest computing adventure:

I have a friend from work who needed me to get his internet working, okay fine i got it working easy enough, just using standard windows 7 stuff no issues.

However his main family computer is another story.

My friends father got a virus that pretty much corrupted the MBR of the computer making windows 7 booting impossible without a recovery disk....

Which of course they dont have, so I am getting them a new hard disk (its a desktop and desktops are better off with two hard drives)

I am also re-installing windows 7 from scratch on the new hard drive just in case there is any other corruption on the hard disk.

But will need recovery software for them so this will never happen to them again, so if windows gets corrupted again we can have the software to do it.

I am looking for something similar to CyberLink Recovery Discs Utility (which came with the computer as its an HP)

But it has to be brain dead easy as the family I am dealing with is not that computer literate.

It has to be something simplistic, and most of all free with no strings attached.

I do intend to keep this computer a windows based one so you guys know as these people may not get the wonder and magic of something that doesnt have a big blue E on it.

I figure I will ask the linux community first as well the windows community is rather stupid sometimes.

 

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