OEM Recovery Partition Creator for Windows

I dont know about windows 8 but I know on windows 7 office 2010, vlc, gburner (added reg file to be installed during first logon for registration), winrar, imgburn, used wsus offline to install updates offline, hypersnap, ccleaner, adobe reader, ultraiso (added reg file to be installed also from first logon for registration), firefox, .net 4.5 and all vc run times installed perfect. OEM activated my windows 7 also. Even if I recover using function key or usb it installs everything and also activated incuding not only windows 7 but office 2010 as well. In fact I just used this on my wife's lappy without issues.

Now firewalls and av's are not made to install during audit mode and even some apps will not work so it is a trial and error type procedure until you get it how you want it. Audit mode can be tricky but if you are familiar with the registry you could make it work by adding reg files to be installed during first logon or even installing them from a setupcomplete.cmd for win 7 or firstlogon.cmd for win 8 to do any installs that might be tricky (if a file is used by a app that uses the user area of folders and files like where the temp folder is for current user then that isnt setup yet for the end user therefor it will fail to install). Always a way around things. Even OEM manufactures do installs on first login so that should let ya know some things just wont install correctly from Audit mode.

I would advise using vmware or something simuliar for testing till you get it how you want it.

 

this is a great tool, i always wondered how it was done, now i can save everything..
thankinu

 

Thanks for advice. I got my apps backed up successfully. I used Advanced Token Manager to backup my windows and ms office keys before doing OEM Recovery Partition. In Audit mode I restore windows and office activation from backup. They are activated. Then I made the recovery partition. However for the first logon only ms office is still activated, windows is not activated. I have to manually run the Advanced token manager again. Any idea to keep windows activation as well? Thanks

 

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