Solved Recovery in W8.1 Enterprise. Can't find image restore.

Although I have been able to make a full disk image using the built in "system image" option, I can not find any way to restore it. The recovery options only point to system restore and refresh PC. I'm navigating to <control panel> and then <file history> to access the recovery options. I can not find any restore from system image option anywhere.


Am I missing something, or is it deliberately missing in the Enterprise editions ? If so is there any way I can restore the backup image ?

Boot from recovery or install media. Then take the System Image Recovery option in Advanced Options. That should work.

If you don't have recovery or install media:

From the metro desktop, type create recovery then chose Create Recovery Drive.
If you have a Start button via Classic Shell, Start8 or similar, click i then type create recovery then chose Create Recovery Drive.

This will allow you to create a bootable flash drive you can use to restore as adamf mentions above.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5132-recovery-drive-create-usb-flash-drive-windows-8-a.html

adamf said:

Boot from recovery or install media. Then take the System Image Recovery option in Advanced Options. That should work.

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Thanks. That worked a treat.

Ztruker said:

If you don't have recovery or install media:

From the metro desktop, type create recovery then chose Create Recovery Drive.
If you have a Start button via Classic Shell, Start8 or similar, click i then type create recovery then chose Create Recovery Drive.

This will allow you to create a bootable flash drive you can use to restore as adamf mentions above.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5132-recovery-drive-create-usb-flash-drive-windows-8-a.html

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Fortunately I still had the bootable ISO on flash drive... that did the trick.

Great.