HP Pavilion TS 15 n-270nr How to boot to recovery partition?

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  1. Comput
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    HP Pavilion TS 15 n-270nr How to boot to recovery partition?


    I'm going to be honest this time. So, this computer originally had Windows 8.1, but had bloatware.

    This computer is from Feb 28, 2014, as said from the BIOS born on date. After a year and a half, I did a clean install of Windows 10, but then clean installed Windows 8.1, as I wanted to go to the original OS. However, the recovery partition was missing, so I recovered it with Minitool Partition Wizard bootable. Then I cleaned installed Windows 8.1 on a partition after the recovery partition overwrote the Windows 8.1 partition. I had not touched this partition, and only did a Chkdsk on it.

    Now, I want to factory reset from the partition after recovering the partition. The folders are not modified. There are a few .wim files, called boot.wim, found in D:\preload\FactoryUpdate, ESP.wim and install.wim, found in D:\preload, and winUCRD.wim, found in D:\recovery\WindowsRE. the rest are files needed for the partition to boot. I have tried booting from the wim files but no luck, only the UCRD one worked, but gave me an error message saying that the media wasn't compatible.


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  3. Kyhi
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    You will need the Boot.wim and the Install.wim to Create windows 8.1 recovery media..
    What size is the Install.wim - as it was added after the fact.. But for recovery media the file can not be larger then 4GB if you intend to Boot In UEFI mode... But we can just split the install.wim into install.swm(s) to work with recovery (USB) media..

    The ESP.wim most likely is the System partition...
    The Winucrd. wim is an unknown to me...

    You can use 7zip to extract those 2 wim file to a folder or open the wim archive
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  4. NavyLCDR
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    With everything that has transpired, I would not expect to be able to do a factory reset using the recovery partition. MIT's than likely that ability is long gone.
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  6. Comput
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    @Kyhi The install.wim file is 16.8 GB.
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  7. Plankton
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    i used to be of the same mind set.....of having the factory recovery partition to do a factory reset with the OEM software. But why? You install all the bloatware that came with it. Unless, you create a recovery partition to do the above with out the bloatware. Then it brings me back to a clean install.

    It's just so much easier and faster with the ISO on a bootable USB drive and truly do an actual clean install. Then have all the necessary drivers on a different USB.
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  8. Kyhi
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    That is what I would have figured.. Save that Install.wim & Boot.wim
    The install.wim is the OEM Factory Image - the Boot.wim is the OEM Recovery Tools (WinRE.wim)
    With those two files we can create Windows 8.1 USB OEM Factory Recovery Media..
    Then you can clean install (Restore) OEM Factory Settings at any time via USB...
    And with those 2 wim's saved you can Clean install another OS without the need for the Win8.1 OEM Recovery Image Partition...
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  9. Comput
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    I'm trying to split the install.wim to .swm on the usb drive, only that it gives me an error, stating that the data is invalid. I'm pretty much screwed. ;(

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    I've tried repairing with Dism. No luck. Pretty much this computer is scrapped.
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  10. Kyhi
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    How you figure your screwed....
    You seem to have gotten way in front of yourself....
    What method are you going to use to Apply the Factory Image...
    You have to be in a PE or RE environment and the OS partition has to be offline

    What is the Boot Mode of your PC - MBR/Legacy or UEFI
    Do you have just one HDD/SDD installed in PC - or more then one
    What size is the HDD

    OR
    Better yet - Just Wipe The Drive & Clean Install Windows 10
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  12. SIW2
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    You don't need to move it anywhere. Install.wim image can be applied from where it is now.

    ( That assumes install.wim file is not damaged)

    Has to be done from outside windows using bootable media for example.

    1. Boot into winpe media.

    2. If you are sure you don't want to keep anything currently on the windows partition - format the current windows partition before applying the image from install.wim
    NOTE only format the current windows partition - not any others.

    3. If you do want to keep the stuff currently on the windows partition and/or the current installation, create a folder and move anything you want to keep into it - before applying the image from the install.wim. Do not format the windows partition if you want that folder to still be there.

    4. Then use dism++ or gimagex, or winntsetup - or whatever to browse to install.wim, select the largest image it contains and extract/apply it onto the current windows partition.

    5. Open up nt6repair (it is on the boot media desktop)

    In the dropdown select drive letter containing the image you just applied and click FIX.

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    That's it.

    You can use the winpe I made - it contains dism++ and gimagex and other goodies to do this kind of stuff. Extract the 183x64.iso to usb stick using e.g. Usb7ice. Boot from the usb stick. Then follow steps above. Very easy.

    183x64.iso

    Usb7ice.zip
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  13. Comput
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    @Kyhi I'm on UEFI.

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    Also @Kyhi, it's only 1 HDD installed on the laptop, and it's 1 TB in size. And also, don't you mean to set the entire disk to offline or the Windows partition?
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