Microsoft says Windows 7 recovery discs created using the Control Panel Backup and Restore app will fail to start after installing Windows updates released since January 11, 2022.

These are the Windows tools you must know to recover your system when something goes wrong.

What you need to know Due to a bug, recovery discs created with the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) app will not work with systems running Windows updates from after January 11, 2022.

News Windows’ new Quick Machine Recovery auto-fixes system failures for you Microsoft is testing a new recovery feature that remotely troubleshoots and restores computers that no longer boot.

Several fruitless hours of debugging later, I finally threw in the towel and used the new Windows 7 recovery console to restore the system image backup I had completed just a few days earlier.