OEM Recovery Partition Creator for Windows

Everything worked as planned! Even tested a "Reset" in Windows 8 and it worked as planned too. now I have to re-do it and actually install all the drivers, updates and applications. Maybe the dev can update the AutoUnattend.xml to include x86 as it is possible. Thanks for everyone's input!

 

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Ultrabooks may not have DVD drives, but the people i know still buy laptops as they actually need a dvd drive for backup and to play movies etc. In fact i dont know anyone with an ultrabook, most people i know see them as a half a laptop because they dont have an optical drive...most of them dont want to have two PC's just so they can access an optical drive....

 

Thanks for the reply. Thanks for confirming what i thought about changing the settings files, im so used to rearranging the partition layout in the legacy version that it didnt take me long to find the relevant settings files in the new version and think about editing them. But nice to have confirmation

As for DVD, as in my earlier comments, i have real fears about a usb key given to an end user surviving reusue/erasure until its needed for recovery, and whilst there are people who buy ultrabooks, i wouldnt for the same reason i wouldnt buy a tablet - its half a computer, there will be laptops with optical drives for the forseeable future. No pressure on adding DVD recovery, but it would be appreicated when or if you have the chance.

Thanks

 

Yes it does. I can send you screen shots if you want to verify anything. Or can test anything if you want me to. I still need to go through the whole process a couple more times so let me know if you need me to test anything.
Quick question. I am ordering about 100 of the same tablets and was wondering if you could recommend a way for me to make an image of the whole disk with all the partitions and deploy it to the rest 99 tablets. These tablets will all be added to a work Domain. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

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Looks like I will be sending another donation to you. Great tool with Great support. Thanks for all your work AnarethoS!

 

Thanks for the explanation. ResHack 3.5.2.84 works fine with both x86 and x64 executables. Latest version is 3.6.0 but I suppose that will work too. I didn't noticed you included the source file, I guess I just followed the "easy" way

 

What would be the correct method or software to use to capture the whole disk and apply it to another identical computer. Scenario is the following.

I have completed the steps of creating the recovery Partition. All was successful.
Now I want to capture the whole disk with all the partitions so that I can use it to deploy it to about 50 identical computers. Any suggestions?

 

I would suggest Acronis True Image (not free) or Macrium Reflect (free), both can create bootable CD/DVD/USB media, make the backup to an external HDD or pen drive and restore it on the other computers

 

Will that conflict if they will all be added to the same domain? Of course I will be changing the computer name for each individual PC.

 

If you want to deploy an image to 50 identical computers, use WDS and broadcast.

 

That is what I was thinking but read that WDS will only capture the partition that you run sysprep on and that would not include the custom recovery. Thanks for the input.