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Activation issue after clean install on new hard drive
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New #62
Have a look and see where the other .wim(s) are - the Restore or Winclon folders seem likely.
Take a look in system software folder - might be some wims in there with proprietary extension - probably contain the oem bloatware.
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New #63
I found another WIM.
It's located inside
Restore > Files > Windows > system32 > oobe
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New #64
What we are looking for is normally called install.wim.
It is big - about 3gb.
Samsung may have given it a different name - they also may have split it into several files.
There will be a folder with several files in - about 3gb of them.
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New #66
LOL. You are making heavy weather of this.
It is very simple.
We are looking for a file that is install.wim . It might not be called install.wim by your oem.
It is likely they split it into several files split wim fiiles - normally called .swm files.
Your oem might not have called them .swm files.
How do you find them?
Very simple.
Rt click each folder - find a VERY BIG one.
open it.
If there are subfolders - rt click each sub folder and find a VERY BIG one.
Inside that will be possibly one large wim file or several split wim files.
Here is what the sony recov partition looks like.
This is a VERY BIG folder - let's take a look:
Check each subfolder looking at the very big one each time - ( this is multi language so you probably won't have so may sub folders.)
Here is a VERY BIG subfolder - let's take a look:
Inside that is another VERY BIG subfolder - let's take a look:
Ah ha - there they are. those .sny files are split wims. Because you are not using Sony - yours won't be called .sny files . But it is exteremely obvious what they are from the size.
Last edited by SIW2; 06 Aug 2012 at 12:28.
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New #67
Ahh. Ok. I just manually went into every single file looking for The One.
The few files I have found were not actually contained in folders, they are just files 'floating'. See the images below.
From what I've read, Samsungs recovery uses an 'initial image' which is basically what it is when you've set it up.
These files below seem to be the ones.
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New #68
It is indeed part of the Samsung Recovery directory along with the preceding file. The question of how to mount it or config it to boot needs further research but if the file is not corrupted it should ultimately be possible.
How to open WinClon files .wcl and .w01?
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New #69
Slightly disconcerting is that when I try to download and install the Samung recovery Solution, it attemps to then a box pops up saying:
There is no Samsung recovery area on your hard disk drive.
Set up will be cancelled.
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New #70
You are probabaly better finding out what those are.
I would change the extension on them to .wim .
Then see if 7-zip can open them.
( No point in bothering with samsung recovery utility - it will look for a particular existing partition structure, which you don't have )
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