Hello.
I have a problem with restoring (reseting) my OS to factory image using Recovery partition. The problem is not that uncommon, yet I've tried a gadzillion things and none seem to work (or I've been doing them wrong). And I was hoping you guys could have a look and point me toward a resolution.
The computer is an Asus X553M laptop, which came with W8.1 wBing pre-installed and two visible partitions (C - os, D - data). There was also a 100MB System partition, 900MB Restore partition (the one I am now booting to, I suspect, more on that later), 128MB Reserved partition, and 20GB Recovery one (the one with system image). It worked fine for some time, then I upgraded it to W10, then worked fine some more, but problems started popping up, so I decided to start anew with a fresh system install. I wanted to try if W7 would work, I popped the CD in, formatted C and D. Wanting only one working partition, I deleted C and D (only!, I left all the remaining partitions, including Recovery) and made a single partition in their place. However, it turned out, the disk is GPT and W7 wouldn't install out of box, so I thought no biggie, I will restore the 8.1.
I booted to Troubleshooting (I think it is called), clicked Reset PC and 'A required drive partition is missing'. I thought I could get around it by extracting the key and installing Win8.1 from Microsoft's ISO, but it turns out Win8.1 != Win8.1 wBing (the key didn't work. Oh, well). So, now I have to somehow get the Reset PC working again on a computer that does not have an OS right now (I have another machine with W7. No machine with Win8 or 8.1 atm).
I tried splitting the merged partition back into two, but that didn't help. I tried setting the IDs of partitions as it is in the DiskpartScript.txt on 900MB Restore partition (de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac) for both Partition 2 (Restore) and Partition 6 (Recovery), coupled with assigning letters for all partitions. The set id part, probably changed the partition 2 type from Restore to Recovery (although I'm not 100% sure). All that didn't help. I tried unhide partition 6, but couldn't as diskpart returned 'The object is not found'. I wanted to check reagentc command and its /info and/or /setosimage, but reagentc is not recognized as an internal or external command.
DISKPART returns the following now:
The Recovery partition (6) looks alright (with files):
The Resore (Recovery now) partition (2) looks alright as well (directories only):
There are too many files to retype them here. I will get a linux livecd to tree them out asap, if that helps.
I don't think the files got corrupt, but somehow the link between partitions is not there for Troubleshooting to see. Or it's wrong now after the whole merge/split partitions.
Is there a change to get the restore back up working? I don't mind having two visible partitions (OS and DATA), if that means the reset pc works. Any ideas? Or things I should have checked, but didn't?
Thank you!
I have a problem with restoring (reseting) my OS to factory image using Recovery partition. The problem is not that uncommon, yet I've tried a gadzillion things and none seem to work (or I've been doing them wrong). And I was hoping you guys could have a look and point me toward a resolution.
The computer is an Asus X553M laptop, which came with W8.1 wBing pre-installed and two visible partitions (C - os, D - data). There was also a 100MB System partition, 900MB Restore partition (the one I am now booting to, I suspect, more on that later), 128MB Reserved partition, and 20GB Recovery one (the one with system image). It worked fine for some time, then I upgraded it to W10, then worked fine some more, but problems started popping up, so I decided to start anew with a fresh system install. I wanted to try if W7 would work, I popped the CD in, formatted C and D. Wanting only one working partition, I deleted C and D (only!, I left all the remaining partitions, including Recovery) and made a single partition in their place. However, it turned out, the disk is GPT and W7 wouldn't install out of box, so I thought no biggie, I will restore the 8.1.
I booted to Troubleshooting (I think it is called), clicked Reset PC and 'A required drive partition is missing'. I thought I could get around it by extracting the key and installing Win8.1 from Microsoft's ISO, but it turns out Win8.1 != Win8.1 wBing (the key didn't work. Oh, well). So, now I have to somehow get the Reset PC working again on a computer that does not have an OS right now (I have another machine with W7. No machine with Win8 or 8.1 atm).
I tried splitting the merged partition back into two, but that didn't help. I tried setting the IDs of partitions as it is in the DiskpartScript.txt on 900MB Restore partition (de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac) for both Partition 2 (Restore) and Partition 6 (Recovery), coupled with assigning letters for all partitions. The set id part, probably changed the partition 2 type from Restore to Recovery (although I'm not 100% sure). All that didn't help. I tried unhide partition 6, but couldn't as diskpart returned 'The object is not found'. I wanted to check reagentc command and its /info and/or /setosimage, but reagentc is not recognized as an internal or external command.
DISKPART returns the following now:
Code:
Partition ### Type Size Offset
Partition 1 System 100MB 1024KB
Partition 2 Recovery 900MB 101MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128MB 1001MB
Partition 4 Primary 172GB 1129MB
Partition 5 Primary 271GB 173GB
Partition 6 Recovery 20GB 445GB
The Recovery partition (6) looks alright (with files):
Code:
Recovery
WindowsRE
boot.sdi
ReAgent.xml
Winre.wim
RecoveryBoot
AsDiskLayout.dat
AsPartition.dat
boot.wim
RecoveryImage
DONOTEREPLACE.TXT
install.wim
The Resore (Recovery now) partition (2) looks alright as well (directories only):
Code:
Boot
en-us
Fonts
Resources
EFI
Boot
en-us
Microsoft
Boot
en-us
Fonts
Resources
en-us
FACLog
Sources
There are too many files to retype them here. I will get a linux livecd to tree them out asap, if that helps.
I don't think the files got corrupt, but somehow the link between partitions is not there for Troubleshooting to see. Or it's wrong now after the whole merge/split partitions.
Is there a change to get the restore back up working? I don't mind having two visible partitions (OS and DATA), if that means the reset pc works. Any ideas? Or things I should have checked, but didn't?
Thank you!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1 wBing