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Restore OEM OS from base.wim in HP RECOVERY partition
Hi everybody !
First visit in this forum. Hope you are more knowledgeable than three other one (HP amongst them) that failed soon to attempt a resolution...
My HP G62 / W7 Home Premium 64 jammed (maybe by interrupting a windows update) on every F8 modes with this error:
interactive logon process initialization has failed. please consult the event log for more details.
After that, I did an F11 to trigger the Recovery Manager and first did a file backup.
After that, I split the main partition in order to store the file backup and shuffled the partition at EOD (end of disk).
After that... NO more F11 was working and I was stucked. I reinstated the partitions to their OEM disposition to no avail; no more F11 available.
With a Hiren's USB stick (HBUS) I then tied in the mini 7 OS many attempts to tweak the BCDs in order to trigger the access the RECOVERY partition from the SYSTEM BCD but everything failed.
I decided to install a new instance of W7HP64 with my Windows 7 AIO installation DVD. Prior to that, I backed the RECOVERY partition in case the installation would mess with it. I red later on that I should also have baked the SYSTEM partition for it would be changed and that I could loose the F11 and/or the OEM recovery functions. After thoughts, I said to me that installing the same OS over itself should restore the recovery functions, F11 amongst them. So I thought; I was wrong.
All went ok for the new W7HP64 installation and... no OEM restoration could be triggered.
I red somewhere that I could access the RECOVERY partition by making it "Active", what I did, and after some tweaking of the RECOVERY BCD, I was able to get into it and see the Restore Manager RM:
The first option "Restauration du système Mircosoft" involves restoration points to an earlier state, what is not what we want.
The two other options involve the reformat of the "entire" HD ! as stated in the next information page, that is NOT what I want. I only want the WINDOWS partition to be reformatted and be restored to OEM (factory) condition with the base.wim image on the RECOVERY partition.. But If it formats the whole HD, how can it restore the RECOVERY partition itself ?
Anyway, after proceeding through the last option (It does the same anyway with the second option), an error message pops up saying that the restoration cannot be performed from the HD (if it does format it. this is understandable) and can only be performed with a restoration disk... that I don't have.
The question is this: since I booted from the RECOVERY partition, how comes I can't recover the WINDOWS partition without resorting to a restoration CD ? Everything needed to perform the recovery lies in the RECOVERY partition !!!
Laptop info :
Partitions:
1. (A) SYSTEM (no letter)
2. WINDOWS C:\
3. RECOVERY D:\
4. HP_TOOLS E:\
(A): active
"D:\Recovery\system32\Recovery\ReAgent.xml"
"D:\Recovery\WindowsRE\winre.wim" (271M, 1 partition)
"D:\Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi"
"D:\boot\BCD"..... the recovery boot file
"D:\boot\boot.sdi"
"D:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD"
"D:\EFI\Microsoft\Recovery\BCD"
"D:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi"
"D:\system.sav\preload\base.wim" (3.2G, 4 partitions)
"D:\system.sav\FactoryUpdate\boot.wim" (246M, 1 partition)
"D:\system.sav\FactoryUpdate\BOOT.SDI"
" :\Boot\BCD"..... THE main boot file
"C:\boot\BCD"
"C:\Recovery\8bcc9453-faf9-11e8-8721-efb323ce4303\boot.sdi"
"C:\Recovery\8bcc9453-faf9-11e8-8721-efb323ce4303\Winre.wim" (162M, 1 partition)
"C:\Recovery\8bcc9457-faf9-11e8-8721-efb323ce4303\boot.sdi"
"C:\Recovery\8bcc9457-faf9-11e8-8721-efb323ce4303\Winre.wim" (162M, 1 partition)
"C:\Recovery\abe9fdd0-fb1f-11e8-a94f-86cbf4dd2403\boot.sdi"
"C:\Recovery\abe9fdd0-fb1f-11e8-a94f-86cbf4dd2403\Winre.wim" (162M, 1 partition)
"C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi"
"C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgr.efi"
"C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\ReAgent.xml"
Thanks in advance for your involvement.
Best regards
iBenny