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
I never had this problem personnaly, since I mostly do laptop none of them have that musch letter used. I may consider changing it in the next release, since I just need to edit the settings file. This problem only occurs on Windows 8 / Wim on last partition, right?
I am, for your installation, do you use the version that put the WIM file on the last or on the first partition?
@AnarethoS Now, another partition (D) has been added to Autounattend.xml file. Is there anything else that needs to be done? Do I need to add or change something in Setting - Examples folder or I'm done with customizing my installation?"
Basicaly, you are done. But if you don't change the "ResetPartitions.txt" file, restoring from DVD or USB (which delete all partitions without any exception) will not recreate the DATA partition. If you what this partition recreated, you will have to add a few ligne, like SELECT DISK 0 SELECT PARTITION 3 SHRINK DESIRED=size MINIMUM=size CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=DATA where size is the size of the DATA partition in MB (150000 => 150gb and so on)
My ResetPartitions.txt, please see if it is correct. I do not want to let me in restoring deleted D partition. Spoiler CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=12000 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECOVERY SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=R CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=150 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=SYSTEM ASSIGN LETTER=S CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=WINDOWS ASSIGN LETTER=W CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=DATA ASSIGN LETTER=D
It won't works. Here is the file, considering a 150gb WINDOWS partition Code: CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=12000 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=RECOVERY SET ID=27 ASSIGN LETTER=R CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=150 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=SYSTEM ASSIGN LETTER=S CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=150000 FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=WINDOWS ASSIGN LETTER=W CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK LABEL=DATA ASSIGN LETTER=D
@AnarethoS sorry just have to tell me! I have one question regarding default language. My Windows 8 is in SLOVENIAN language. When I go through with the installation and when I load up Recovery Tools and reboot - my keyboard layout changes to ENGLISH. Also some of the PROGRAMS in Metro change (mail, calendar, people). Can you give me some advice? Thanks and best regards!"
sorry for my basic English is there anyone to help me with answering this issue : I have two hdd in my laptop one is 320 gb the other is 500 gb. I am using the one with 500 gb capatiy for archive if I use this programme for creating recovery partition for my hdd with 320 gb will my ohter hdd effected or not?
First question would be, what type of dvd media are you using? I would never use cheap media in order to create a recovery dvd. I recommend verbatim, that is what I use for all my data. Also make sure any apps running in the background that you might have installed are temp turned off just to insure no issues will arise.
Can you restart the process? If the error occurs again, DO NOT CLICK THE OK message and check the following : - Space left on C: - Give me the full content list of C:\DVDCreator (all files and folder) Also, which version are you using (WIM on first or last partition). Defaut partition layout or not? Thanks!
if you are not sure how to make a full content list with all files and folders other than typing it out (if there are a lot of files), browse to C:\DVDCreator in a command prompt and type Code: dir /s >list.txt and you can open the list.txt and paste here for AnarethoS.
I found the problem. I installed Windows 8.1 in VMware. It is M$ fault. They removed some files from C:\Windows\Boot where I take some file to create a bootable DVD. The ETFSBOOT file (the boot sector) is now missing. I now face a dilemna. If I put my files Inside my softwar, it won't be legal for me to distribute it. But without the file, it can not works Under 8.1 (bot OK for 8). Thèses files are present on the original Windows disk, so I may have to ask the "technician" bulding the computer to copy some file from the boot media on the computer before capturing or something similar.