I want to factory reset!

Anshad Edavana said:

It's midnight in my place. Need some sleep.... See you in the morning (In the meantime, prepare and check the USB drive ).

Good night

Have you had success in creating the USB and booting it in UEFI mode ?.

Also please do the below steps and let us know the result.

1. Download "MountstorPe" from http://www.kare-net.de/Download/MountStorPe.zip

2. Extract the archive and you will find "mountstorPE.exe" inside the folder named "Files". Right click on it and choose "Run As Administrator". This utility will try to assign drive letters to hidden partitions. If it works as expected, recovery partition will be assigned with a drive letter and you will be able to browse the contents using explorer.

Let me know whether "MountstorPE" can mount the recovery partition successfully.

Anshad Edavana said:

Have you had success in creating the USB and booting it in UEFI mode ?.

Also please do the below steps and let us know the result.

1. Download "MountstorPe" from http://www.kare-net.de/Download/MountStorPe.zip

2. Extract the archive and you will find "mountstorPE.exe" inside the folder named "Files". Right click on it and choose "Run As Administrator". This utility will try to assign drive letters to hidden partitions. If it works as expected, recovery partition will be assigned with a drive letter and you will be able to browse the contents using explorer.

Let me know whether "MountstorPE" can mount the recovery partition successfully.

I can use minitool partition wizard to unhide and assign letter to recovery partition and it's scceeded

Should I put siw2's zip file in the recovery partition after unhidding and do the steps?

Can you add it with EasyBCD now? It may boot with a drive letter.

gregrocker said:

Can you add it with EasyBCD now? It may boot with a drive letter.

I have tried that but it is still stuck at windows is loading file but I will give it anoyher go

I have tried that but it is still stuck at windows is loading file but I will give it anoyher go

Add the "WInRE.WIM" to BCD store using "EasyBCD" but before trying to boot from it, run the below command and attach the resulting file with next reply.

Bcdedit /enum >L:\BCD.TXT

Feel free to change the drive letter if needed. Attach the file with next reply and we can check whether it is possible to use the "EasyBCD" method instead manually restoring OS from the SWM file.

Anshad Edavana said:

I have tried that but it is still stuck at windows is loading file but I will give it anoyher go

Add the "WInRE.WIM" to BCD store using "EasyBCD" but before trying to boot from it, run the below command and attach the resulting file with next reply.

Bcdedit /enum >L:\BCD.TXT

Feel free to change the drive letter if needed. Attach the file with next reply and we can check whether it is possible to use the "EasyBCD" method instead manually restoring OS from the SWM file.

The l letter refers to the recovery partition that came with laptop or the one I have made?

In aus support it says ems have to be enable should I enable it in easybc?

The l letter refers to the recovery partition that came with laptop or the one I have made?

You can use any drive letter other than the one for built in recovery partition. Be it D , E , or L , output of the command will be saved there with the name BCD.TXT. Simply attach that file with next reply.