Ok guy. I completed my base gui menu for Windows 8. I would like you to test it and tell me if you like it. Don't be afraid to test it, as it do nothing for now except moving through menu and stuff. It runs notting. Also, if anyone here is good enough in englsih, maybe he can correct/modify the language file for me? What to you think about the buttons I used? Path : Removed - See later post Thanks!
Just a thought, you can still use the your autounattend to make/setup your 4 partitions. Install windows 8. Then, you can run your install script and shrink the windows partition & make your recovery of par 5! I've been doing my install through WinPE: Code: @echo off Title Installing Windows 8 Pro 64bit UEFI set PTH=%~dp0 DiskPart /s %PTH%Files\CreatePartitions-UEFI.txt \Source.x64\setup /unattend:%PTH%Files\Unattend_Win8_Pro_x64-UEFI.xml
I am working on adding a menu to Windows 7 also AND adding a file browser in WinRE of both os. requires an admin account, so data still safe
Thank you for all the hard work you've put into this project. I'm using the basic version, and I have just run the "Install-to-MBR" script. The computer shut down, like it should, and I wanted to test the restore. I booted up into Windows 7 and created some empty folders on the desktop. When I reboot and press F7, the only option I see is "Windows 7". Then in the "System Recovery Options", when I try "System Image Recovery", I get a message saying that there are no images available. The instructions for the basic version are not very clear on the recovery process, except to run FullRestore.cmd from the USB key to get back my saved image. What about restoring from the computer, and not the USB key? Am I missing something? - Josh
I installed windows 8 32 bit w/ MBR recovery basic beta all the way to audit mode( 3 partitions(winre,sys,windows). Ran the "Install to MBR disk" script & captured. Took about 10 minutes to capture. Turned on & Proceeded to fill out the OOBE info and got to the desktop. Created a usb key from the recovery menu. worked great, took about 15 minutes. I also tested the troubleshooting modes from the WinRE menu. everything was there and worked fine, file browser included! I then cleaned(wiped) the hdd to reload from USB fresh. Booted to the usb key, selected the refresh pc option, told it to repartition the drive, just remove my files, clicked reset and it was on its way. Will follow up after further testing.......
guys i have a question, is it possible to create the recovery partition with password? so no one else can do the recovery just me? is it gonna capture the windows for me with the activation and installed programms? do i need to reactivate windows after the recovery?
Recovering from USB key worked fine. BUT when I tried to recover from windows after that, it said it could not find the recovery files and to "reinsert recovery media or windows disk." The recovery files were still on the recovery partition but they split up into 3 files(recovery\windowsRE\install.swm, install2.swm, install3.swm.) The original fresh install of windows 8 and a recovery only created 1 recovery file(recovery\windowsRE\install.wim) Also the troubleshooting section accessed from windows(settings\change pc settings\general\advanced startup(restart now) has no troubleshooting options anymore other than "startup settings," all other have disappeared. When going through the recovery tools menu and choosing "i want to repair my computer" it restarts and brings you right back to the desktop, never to winRE menu. Keep in mind this only shows problems after recovering from a USB backup key. All recovering so far I have tested from the HDD works great...along with all repair options!! KEEP IT UP, NICE JOB **also, If windows is still on the HDD and I choose to recover without repartitioning from the USB recovery, the install.wim stays and the everything works normal. If I recover and tell it to repartition it wipes the recovery partition and puts the 3 (install.swm's) and the recovery no longer works like I mentioned above...
Thanks for the info. The USB media stuff is made by Microsoft. I will ha to look a little bit into it. I know there is a way to add scripting into this mode, so I will try to look if I can add a part that will re-register the recovery environment correctly. Right now, I am trying to finalise the Windows 7 USB creator. Lot to do. Completed the part that create the Recovery drive. I have now to work on the recovery menu that will be booted into. Also, for UEFI bot from USB, the drive must be FAT32, so I have to split the Recovery image WIM file. I will have to check if it break built-in Windows recovery. If yes, I will have to splitt the image to the drive and re-combine during recovery. Will let you know. When both Windows 8 and Windows 7 version will be near completion, I will post them here with also a "test" sheet that will ask you waht to test. Thanks again for your help all. Without you, it will be hard to create a good product.
Can you give me the content of your Recovery partition? Is there a Install.Wim file on it? Should be R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\Install.wim where R is the assigned letter to the recovery partition.
Nice Work from what it looks like. Iv been digging for a while now for a tool that will do this. However at the moment I have 1 main question on this program. I have an HP DV6 Laptop purchased from HP back in march of this year (2012). It came with a Recovery Partition (17GB in size)on it that would put the OS back to factory. In order to access this recovery partition I would have to press F11 during post which would take me into WinPE/Recovery Manager to start the factory reset. While mucking with some resizing and a few other things I have not lost the partition but the partition fails to boot. I get the darn BCD error 0xc0000225. I have tried for the last few days to fix the F11 function/BCD error but everything I do still gives me the 0xc0000225 error. I have the recovery media being shipped to me from HP as we speak which will apparently rebuild the entire disk and all partition and the F11 function from what I have read all over the HP support website. Doing what I thought was a smart thing the day I unboxed my laptop I made a full disk image of the hard drive including all partition using Acronis True Image. But even restoring the acronis image still gives me the damn BCD error. So im at a total loss. OK That all being said my question is will this tool/program restore the F11/BCD code on this. I have even tried reinstalling BCD on the recovery partition but still I get that damn bcd error? Its very frustrating. I has to be something corrupted with BCD or maybe some GUID ID somewhere in BCD has been changed or something...hell Im at a total loss for ideas. And for what its worth I am refering to the F11 key that I can press at BIOS POST not disk boot. This is pressed before the hard drives mbr gets read from if not mistaken. When its all said and done with I wouldnt mind replacing the Win7 Partition image (accessed via the F11 key) with my Win8 pro x64 wim and somehow have it restore my activation token apon first boot since I will be only using this wim on this laptop. Basically want to update the old win7 with the new win8 since I have a legit win8 key. Also to be clear I am not reying to recover the OS or reinstall windows there is lots of ways I can do that. I am simply trying to get back the F11 function. Thanks for any Ideas or comments anyone may have. ~MC