Unable to reinstall Windows 8!

Tourniquet

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Hi,
I recently installed Windows 10 technical Preview on my Samsung SmartPC XE500.
Today i wanted to set it back to factory mode, but it only reinstalled Windows 10. =/

So I put in my recovery USB flash drive. Booted with Volume up + Power, and it finally booted the flash drive.
No i wanted to reinstall everything, but it does not work.

All i got is 'Unable to rest your pc. A required drive partition is missing'. I guess this is because Windows 10 deleted the original recovery partition.

BTW the recovery medium i've made does not contain the $PBR_Diskpart files. Maybe this is the problem?

Is there a way to fix this? I really need to reinstall Windows 8.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer V3 771G-6443
    CPU
    i5-3230m
    Motherboard
    Acer VA70_HC (U3E1)
    Memory
    8GB DDR3 PC3-12800 (800 MHz)
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD4000 + GeForce GT 730M
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" Generic PnP Display on Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900 pixels
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB
    ADATA SSD SP900 128GB
    PSU
    90 watt brick
    Mouse
    Bluetooth
    Antivirus
    Comodo
    Other Info
    Asus RT-AC56R dual-band WRT router (Merlin firmware). Intel 7260.HMWWB.R dual-band ac wireless adapter.
Try this method: http://www.eightforums.com/installa...reinstalling-windonws-8-usb-2.html#post368623

Copy CreatePartitions.txt and ApplyImage.bat into the root directory of your recovery USB flash drive. Then run the Diskpart script and ApplyImage.bat batch file.

Please take note of this:

The recovery image partition size is 20480 MB (20 GB). NOTE: You can decrease the recovery image partition size.

See also this post: How to clean install Windows 8.1 if you have an OEM computer with UEFI firmware (BIOS) embedded Windows 8/8.1 product key?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo G580
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-3230M
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Browser
    Microsoft Edge
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender, standard user account
    Other Info
    UEFI firmware (BIOS) embedded Windows 8 product key.
Thank you @genet.

Unfortunately the 'ApplyImage.bat' didn't work the way it supposed to. It only copied the install.swm files over to the right partition.

I now applying the image via dism manually and then also try to copy winre.wim. I hope it'll work. :)
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
I now applying the image via dism manually and then also try to copy winre.wim.

Step-by-Step: Windows 8 Deployment for IT Professionals

md T:\Recovery\WindowsRE
xcopy /h W:\Windows\System32\Recovery\Winre.wim T:\Recovery\WindowsRE\

ApplyImage.bat - The split image files.png

For some reason, the command does not work with all OEM computers.

W:\windows\system32\recovery\winre.wim does not exist.

Does anyone know of a solution to the problem?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo G580
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-3230M
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Browser
    Microsoft Edge
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender, standard user account
    Other Info
    UEFI firmware (BIOS) embedded Windows 8 product key.
W:\windows\system32\recovery\winre.wim does not exist.

I got the same message. But that's not the problem. W:\windows is the new main partition and this is the path where the install.wim image is applied to.

The problem i got was, that the tool copied the install.swm into the right folder, but didn't even try to apply the image to W:\. That's why the tool goes straight to coping Winre, but it's not there yet.

dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:R:\RecoveryImage\install.swm /SWMFile:R:\RecoveryImage\install*.swm /Index:1 /ApplyDir:W:\

this is what i did manually. After that i loaded the ApplyImage.bat again and after that it copied and registered the WinRE.wim.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
I can now boot correctly in windows again, with the recovery image from samsung. The only problem i've got left is, i can't set it back to factory settings via the control panel. I always get an error. :confused:
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
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