Solved Unable to use built-in ASUS recovery partition

[sarisdesign]

how do i link the /setreimage to partition 1 if i cannot assign it a letter?

 

[KYHI]

ok, no problem..

reagentc / info

see where it says windowsre location - copy that info into a txt file

\\globalroot yad yad

then replace

c:\Windows\System32\Reagentc /Setreimage /Path \\globalroot yada yada /Target c:\Windows

but change the partition to 1 and not 4

hope you understand

 

[KYHI]

C:\Windows\System32\Reagentc /Setreimage /Path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE /Target C:\Windows

all one line

 

[sarisdesign]

Already tried that... this is what happened

 

[sarisdesign]

?

Why can i not see partition 1 in the volume section?
I can see everything else....

 

[KYHI]

? because the oem created a dynamic disk partition

what are you really wanting to do with the PC?

return to factory 8
or clean install windows 8.1

 

[sarisdesign]

return to factory settings... and fix the partitions

 

[KYHI]

you do realize you will be forced to upgrade to 8.1

because 8 support is dead

You can copy that Install.wim to a ntfs formatted usb - that is the factory file

 

[sarisdesign]

i found a file inside the recovery partition that holds the install.wim
inside it i found this......




select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
rem== 1. Windows RE Tools Partition ============
create partition primary size=800
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
assign letter="T"
rem== 2. System Partition =======================
create partition efi size=260
rem ***NOTE: For 4KB-per-sector drives, change
rem this value to size=260.***
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"
rem== 3. Microsoft Reserved (MSR) Partition ====
create partition msr size=128
rem== 4. Windows Partition ======================
rem== a. Create Windows Partition ===========
create partition primary size=153600
rem== b. Create space for recovery partition
rem shrink minimum=15000
rem== c. Prepare the Windows partition
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"
rem== 5. Data Partition ======================
create partition primary
shrink minimum=17408
format quick fs=ntfs label="Data"
assign letter="Q"
rem== 6. Recovery Image Partition ==============
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery image"
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
assign letter="R"
exit



i think this could help greatly...

 

[KYHI]

Save that file - that is the

partition reset txt file (1 of 3 files needed)

Install.wim is 2 of 3

and resetconfig.xml is 3 of 3

open resetconfig with notepad

 

[KYHI]

and there is nothing in that partition.txt that would suggest that the 800MB partition is not visable in diskpart..

Most likely because it is for use with PBR and not a Factory loaded partition

post reset config

 

[KYHI]

there is another file I would like to see - it is on the 350MB partition

and that file is

reagent.xml

 

[sarisdesign]

since i was able to get the recovery drives set to their proper IDs i am able to make a Recovery USB Drive that contains the factory settings... woot... hopefully this will work

 

[KYHI]

ok - look in the sources folder on the media you created.. you should see install.swm(s)

and you should see reagent.xml

open reagent.xml with notepad

 

[KYHI]

View attachment 56042 View attachment 56044

Here are my recovery disk files $ folders and my sources folder

I'll explain what we have here..

The factory install.wim (factory Image) was split into smaller install.swm files then are copied into the recovery partition and then applied to the windows partition

The resetconfig.xml tells windowsRE what partitions to copy and apply the images to.

The resetpartitions.txt (PBR_diskpart.txt) tells windowsRE how to setup the hard drive and to create the needed partitions

The boot.wim is actually winRE.wim and it will get copied into the WinRE tools partition

the reagent.xml sets the bcd boot record and contains the windows version information..

I will note that since the upgrade you are using windows 8.1 winre and applying a windows 8 image
I will also note you partition sizes are oversized based on the partition.txt you posted

 

[sarisdesign]

?

REAGENT.XML

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<WindowsRE version="2.0">
<WinreBCD id="{e257eea7-001f-11e3-bbb8-e19ef0590a18}"/>
<WinreLocation path="\Recovery\WindowsRE" id="0" offset="1048576" guid="{dd613840-78cf-4525-b0a5-994da93b45a7}"/>
<ImageLocation path="\Recovery\WindowsRE" id="0" offset="1048576" guid="{dd613840-78cf-4525-b0a5-994da93b45a7}"/>
<PBRImageLocation path="\RECOVERYIMAGE" id="0" offset="221803778048" guid="{dd613840-78cf-4525-b0a5-994da93b45a7}" index="1"/>
<PBRCustomImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" index="0"/>
<InstallState state="1"/>
<OsInstallAvailable state="1"/>
<CustomImageAvailable state="0"/>
<IsAutoRepairOn state="1"/>
<WinREStaged state="0"/>
<OperationParam path=" -continue"/>
<OsBuildVersion path="9600.17328.amd64fre.winblue_r3.140827-1500"/>
<OemTool state="0"/>
<IsServer state="0"/>
<DownlevelWinreLocation path="\Recovery\WindowsRE" id="0" offset="1048576" guid="{dd613840-78cf-4525-b0a5-994da93b45a7}"/>
<IsWimBoot state="0"/>
<ScheduledOperation state="8"/>
</WindowsRE>

 

[sarisdesign]

RESETCONFIG.XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Reset>
<Run Phase="FactoryReset_AfterImageApply">
<Path>ASUS\AfterImageApply.cmd</Path>
<Param></Param>
<Duration>2</Duration>
</Run>
<SystemDisk>
<MinSize>256000</MinSize>
<DiskpartScriptPath>ASUS\ReCreatePartition.txt</DiskpartScriptPath>
<OSPartition>4</OSPartition>
<WindowsREPartition>1</WindowsREPartition>
<RecoveryImagePartition>6</RecoveryImagePartition>
<RestoreFromIndex>3</RestoreFromIndex>
<RecoveryImageIndex>3</RecoveryImageIndex>
<WindowsREPath>Recovery\WindowsRE</WindowsREPath>
<RecoveryImagePath>RecoveryImage</RecoveryImagePath>
</SystemDisk>
</Reset>

 

[sarisdesign]

wish me luck... lol

 

[KYHI]

did it boot and reset?


REAGENT.XML

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<WindowsRE version="2.0">
<WinreBCD id="{01250aa0-5eed-11e4-a9b7-e57562b24433}"/>
<WinreLocation path="\Recovery\WindowsRE" id="0" offset="1048576" guid="{eb41c21f-f387-4a44-9502-7c4270af15b8}"/>
<ImageLocation path="\Recovery\WindowsRE" id="0" offset="1048576" guid="{eb41c21f-f387-4a44-9502-7c4270af15b8}"/>
<PBRImageLocation path="\RecoveryImage" id="0" offset="990540464128" guid="{eb41c21f-f387-4a44-9502-7c4270af15b8}" index="1"/>
<PBRCustomImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" index="0"/>
<InstallState state="1"/>
<OsInstallAvailable state="1"/>
<CustomImageAvailable state="0"/>
<IsAutoRepairOn state="1"/>
<WinREStaged state="0"/>
<OperationParam path=""/>
<OsBuildVersion path="9600.17328.amd64fre.winblue_r3.140827-1500"/>
<OemTool state="0"/>
<IsServer state="0"/>
<DownlevelWinreLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}"/>
<IsWimBoot state="0"/>
<ScheduledOperation state="4"/>
</WindowsRE>

 

[KYHI]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- ResetConfig.xml for UEFI -->
<Reset>
<SystemDisk>
<DiskpartScriptPath>ResetPartitions.txt</DiskpartScriptPath>
<MinSize>65536</MinSize>
<WindowsREPartition>1</WindowsREPartition>
<WindowsREPath>Recovery\WindowsRE</WindowsREPath>
<OSPartition>4</OSPartition>
<RecoveryImagePartition>5</RecoveryImagePartition>
<RecoveryImagePath>RecoveryImage</RecoveryImagePath>
<RestoreFromIndex>1</RestoreFromIndex>
<RecoveryImageIndex>1</RecoveryImageIndex>
</SystemDisk>
</Reset>