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I am curious; will the finished product of a refresh be .ESD or .WIM ?
The reason I ask is that I will want to be able to do DISM repair with a valid soure.
I also want to be able to create partitions.
TQ
Peter
I am curious; will the finished product of a refresh be .ESD or .WIM ?
The reason I ask is that I will want to be able to do DISM repair with a valid soure.
I also want to be able to create partitions.
TQ
Peter
Hello Peter, :)
There's no need to specify a source with DISM after doing a repair install since it would use the default Windows image as usual. You would typically only need to specify a source if the default image was unable to repair or is corrupted.
Hi, the windows.old directory created when I upgraded from 8 to 10 is no longer on my surface. I do have the recovery usb (created yesterday). Will the refresh still work or do I need to also have installation media? I'm nervous to start if I don't have everything I need.
Hello egipps, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)
No worries. Refresh/Reset doesn't use anything from the Windows.old old. Instead it uses the default Windows image installed with Windows. If Windows can't find the image for whatever reason when you refresh, it'll just ask you to insert your installation media like in step 6 to use it instead.
Thanks heaps. Only problem might be that the Surface Pro 3 didn't come with installation media. And it had Windows 8 installed when I bought it. Would the Windows 10 upgrade have installed an image? Hmm maybe I should download the image first just in case? (provided the right version is available). Don't think I can go backwards if it needs it.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DSSURFACE
System Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Model Surface Pro 3
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU Surface_Pro_3
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4650U CPU @ 1.70GHz, 2301 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 3.11.0950, 5/06/2015
SMBIOS Version 2.8
Embedded Controller Version 32.00
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale Australia
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.10586.0"
Username DsSurface\Doreen
Time Zone AUS Eastern Summer Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.91 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.66 GB
Total Virtual Memory 9.16 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.76 GB
Page File Space 1.25 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualisation Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
Yep, Windows 10 will have a default image included with it by default when you upgraded to Windows 10.
No worries. The refresh doesn't actually start until it either detects and uses the default image, or you insert your installation media and continue if it fails to detect the default image.
If you like, you could download a Windows 10 ISO file to use to create a bootable Windows 10 USB to have if needed.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9...-download.html
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html