Thank for the awesome thread ... I have followed the instructions but cannot boot from the recovery drive. I see the recovery drive listed when i boot and can select it. The system then "loads files" but then reboots. Would this be because my boot drive ("C" drive) is bitlocked?
I am not a expert by any means so i suspect i am making a simple mistake
Check if you can launch recovery manually. First, boot to Command Prompt (see Option Two in this tutorial).
When booted to Command Prompt, run Windows partitioning utility with following command:
diskpart
Enter following command to check partition ID letters, when booted to command prompt they are not always the same than when booting to Windows normally:
list vol
In my case now, Diskpart shows that my custom recovery partition is R:
Exit Diskpart with following command:
exit
Switch to custom recovery partition:
R:
Run Windows Setup manually with following command:
setup.exe
Does the Windows Setup start normally?
Kari
The process you described worked ..Does the Windows Setup start normally?
I did have to provide the bitlocker key for 'C' drive for the computer to boot into the command prompt ..
I guess this is the process i would have to go through to restore
Thanks for the help
double post - rookie mistake...
Last edited by Marko75; 07 Jan 2019 at 20:39. Reason: page crashed :)
Brilliant post, and have used successfully on a few images. But this latest one has me stumped... I've created my recovery drive as per instructions (NTFS, R:), copied everything over including my custom install.wim file (which works on a USB installer). I can do a recovery by running setup.exe from R:
But what I can't do is successfully run the batch file. I choose R as the drive, and get an error saying that there is no valid windows image found on given partition r. Even changing the drive letter fails. I've used the latest 1809 build that I also used for the base of the install. I'm sure I've done something dumb, but for the moment I'm stumped....
And that's what I figured myself. Even fails with the default install.esd that comes with the 1809 current download from MS, and with other custom install.wim files from other images. And I've checked and triple-checked the drive letter. I've deleted and reformatted the partition, and essentially banged my head against a wall. Changed the drive letter in case it didn't like R for some reason. I've done this successfully on 4-5 other images, and it's just worked. Feeling like a bit of a numpty at the moment...
Haha all good. I'm only persisting because of how brilliant this process is. I'll do some more testing and see if I can come up with something useful. Or I'll just put it down to Windows being dumb and go back to my mac :)
Many thanks for your help
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