OEM Recovery Partition Creator for Windows

And What Is ImageX.exe For Windows 7 Recovery partition And How It Work can u Explain?

 

What IS ImageX.exe ? Can u tell Me How Create Recovery partiton In Windows 7 With new Tool Version

 

And What Is ImageX.exe For Windows 7 Recovery partition And How It Work can u Explain?

 

System Restore Shows 2 C: Drives After Recovery......

Im still using the legacy edition, so my post relates to that. May still apply to the new edition, i havent had time to try it out yet...

The one thing i found to be an issue with Recovery Tools is if system protection was on when you made the image, when restoring the image, System Protection would be borked. It would show 2 C: drives and would break system Protection, and when installing some updates they would fail as the OS couldnt create a restore point. Of course you could fix this by disabling all System Protection, and then re-enable it for C:. thats fine if its on your system, or you warned people you set this up for and gave them documentation on how to fix it.

I finally got around to solving this in an automatic way.

The steps i use as as follows:

1) Before installing the OEM Recovery tools (after you have installed apps and customised things etc) turn System Protection OFF
2) Create or copy the files restoreenable.ps1 and restoreenable.vbs to c:\windows
3) Create or merge restoreenable.reg

Then install the OEM Recovery Tools and image

So what does this do?

1) It runs restoreenable.vbs via RunOnce post recovery and warns the user via vbscript msgbox that its about to re-enable System Protection - You can edit the message in the restoreenable.vbs file, look for the 4th last line - WScript.Echo. You can test your message display by copying just the WScript.Echo line into a new txt file, naming is as vbs, then running it to make sure it displays as you like. It then calls the restoreenable.ps1 file. It does all this with NO UAC prompt.

restoreenable.vbs:

Code:

'---------------------------------------
'Elevate this script before invoking it.
'25.2.2011 FNL
'---------------------------------------
bElevate = False
if WScript.Arguments.Count > 0 Then If WScript.Arguments(WScript.Arguments.Count-1) <> "|" then bElevate = True
if bElevate Or WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then ElevateUAC
'******************
'Your script goes here
'******************
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run("powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted c:\windows\restoreenable.ps1")

'-----------------------------------------
'Run this script under elevated privileges
'-----------------------------------------
Sub ElevateUAC
    sParms = " |"
    If WScript.Arguments.Count > 0 Then
            For i = WScript.Arguments.Count-1 To 0 Step -1
            sParms = " " & WScript.Arguments(i) & sParms
        Next
    End If
    Set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
    WScript.Echo "System Protection needs to be turned on after System Recovery." & VBCRLF & VBCRLF & "Shortly after the desktop appears a black windows will appear as System Protection creates a restore point." & VBCRLF & VBCRLF & "This only appears only once." & VBCRLF & VBCRLF & "Please do not use the computer until the restore point is created and the black box disappears. This usually takes less than a minute." & VBCRLF & VBCRLF & VBCRLF & "Click OK to continue...." 
    oShell.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", WScript.ScriptFullName & sParms, , "runas", 1
    WScript.Quit
End Sub

2) It runs restoreenable.ps1 which:
a) enables System Protection
b) sets System Protection to use 5% (you can adjust the maxsize property to any percentage you like)
c) creates an initial restore point

restoreenable.ps1:

Code:

enable-computerrestore -drive "c:\"
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=5%
checkpoint-computer -description "Initial Recovery Point"
exit

restoreenable.reg:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]
"RestoreEnable"="c:\\windows\\restoreenable.vbs"

After creating the image, and rebooting the PC, you will see what it does, as it will of course run

Of course you can test this on your own system before deploying..just disable System Restore and create/copy the files, merge the registry and reboot

Files are available for download here: View attachment 22093

Hope this helps others

 

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Hello. i translated version 3.15 to Danish language but dont know how to integrate it. please help with that Regards Geabo

 

Thanks now working properly B-)

 

@AnarethoS i have an idea, how hard would it be to add a fuction or create a script that would install the product key and cert to the "system /S:" partition.

The premise
install windows (7/8)
inside audit mode install software and drivers etc
run afore mentioned script
to install product key and cert for perminant activation even if full restore is done,
no need to re-enter the product key

 

simular to loader but for legit OS's

 

Hi, i fresh install windows 8 pro and all the pack office. alls are activated. how can i create a restore partition of my installation

 

i use this software, but it delete my DATA partition , how do i prevent this ?

my hd
1 - system reserved
2 - windows 7 system
3 - data - personal files etc

when i copied everything like in the documentation and start boot windows 7 installation, it straight to installing windows, after finish i check my DATA partition is gone , care to teach my step by step to prevent this? how can i configure this software to only delete 2 first partition only ( system reserved and windows 7 system) and leave the DATA partition alone? thanks

 

This isnt to be used after you do a fresh install but during your fresh install. That is why you lost your data. Should have backed up first. As far as activating win 7 or win 8 you could use the multi oem activation that is listed here in this forum to activate win 7 but to activate win 8 there is only kms or loader for server 2012. Those are your only options. If using this app here, ppl should really read the documentation with it and understand it, then use vmware or something simuliar in order to learn and test it.