OEM Recovery Partition Creator for Windows

Hi AnarethoS,

I used an autounattend (mbr, wim last) yesterday that boots Win8.1 into Audit mode.
Left it overnight, sysprep is still there & running as normal.

Winre has been moved to the System partition & enabled:

Code:

Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

    Windows RE status:         Enabled
    Windows RE location:       \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
    Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: ba88f46b-3103-11e3-8e8a-991429421625
    Recovery image location:   
    Recovery image index:      0
    Custom image location:     
    Custom image index:        0

After allocating a drive letter, the File Structure is:

Code:

   SH   I    S:\Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi
   SH   I    S:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ReAgent.xml
   SH   I    S:\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim

 

Yes, if you Disable it the files are moved back:

Code:

A            C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\ReAgent.xml
A  SH        C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\Winre.wim

Only the "S:\Recovery" folder remains...

 

Great, the next commands to enter recovery?
Enter the solution in the next version-Alpha?

 

Great, your is a beautiful project, thanks I will try the new version as soon as possible.

In the future you will create a new answer file AutoUnattend.xml for windows 8.1 uefi?

 

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Installing Win8.1 using autounattend.xml from wim-last (MBR):
"Windows cannot read the <ProductKey> setting from the unattend answer file".

I've had to add this to <UserData>:

Code:

                <ProductKey>
                    <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                    <Key></Key>
                </ProductKey>

I also had to delete:

Code:

            <OEMInformation>
                <HelpCustomized>false</HelpCustomized>
            </OEMInformation>

 

Yep, your right. With 8 I had to have EI.CFG but haven't had any issue with 8.1. With the autounattend.xml I can just select the edition or if installing without it
the product key determines which edition is installed...

 

With 8.1 I don't need EI.CFG.

 

@AnarethoS

"How can I correctly prepare Autounattend.xml so that at the time of Windows 8 installation a setup program would also make me a D: partition (Data) and it would take all of unasigned remaining free space for it.

For a C: partition it would assign 150.000 MB (150 GB). Disk size is 500 GB."

 

Love your tool, has always worked great for me. I have just one quick thought of a small issue I always have to modify when you have new releases....
When I build some pc's they have 2 hard drives, 2 optical drives and a card reader. Making the letters C,D,E,F and then G,H,I,J and K for the card reader.
This causes a problem/error when trying to recover because your tool defaulty assigns "I" to the temporary recover image when mounting and what not. I have been manually changing it to "t" in all the scripts so it will not cause a conflict on my builds. Have you ever ran into this or thought or making this a permanent change in the Tool. I would think someone else has run into this before. Thanks again for making this