Capture and apply Windows, system, and recovery partitions

When you’re deploying Windows using the WIM format, and using customized partitions, a customized system partition or an additional utility partition, learn how to capture the right partitions to apply to new PCs.

If you don’t need custom partitions, you usually can just capture the Windows partition, and then use files from that image to set up the rest of the partitions on the drive. See Capture and Apply Windows using a single WIM file.

If you’re capturing using the FFU format, you’ll be fine — FFU captures all of the partitions on the drive.

Capture the customized partitions

Step 1: Determine which partitions to capture

This table shows the types of partitions that you must capture and those that are managed automatically.

If you’re deploying both UEFI and BIOS systems, you can reuse your primary and logical partitions across UEFI-based and BIOS-based devices, but not the other partition types.

Partition type	Should you capture this partition?	Can you reuse the same WIM on UEFI and BIOS firmware?
System partition (EFI System Partition or BIOS system partition)	Optional. If only a simple set of partition files is required, you don’t have to capture this partition.	No
Microsoft Reserved partition (MSR)	No	No
Primary partitions (Windows partitions, data / utility partitions that you’ve added)	Yes	Yes
Recovery partition	Optional. If you haven’t customized this partition, you don’t have to capture it.	No
Extended partition	No	No
Logical partitions (Windows partitions, data / utility partitions that you’ve added)	Yes	Yes

Step 2: Prepare to capture partitions

If you’ve booted the Windows image, generalize it so that it can be deployed to other devices. For more information, see Sysprep (Generalize) a Windows installation.

Start your reference device by using WindowsВ PE.

At the WindowsВ PE command prompt, type diskpart to open the DiskPart tool.

Check to see if the partitions that you want to capture have drive letters assigned.

If any of the partitions you want to capture don’t already have a drive letter assigned, continue:

List the disks in your PC:

Select the primary hard disk:

View the partitions:

Select a partition that needs a drive letter:

Assign a letter to the partition with the assign letter command. For example,

Type exit to return to the WindowsВ PE command prompt.

For more information, see the DiskPart Help from the command line, or Diskpart Command line syntax.

Step 3: Capture images for each customized partition.

At the WindowsВ PE command prompt, capture each customized partition, for example:

For more information about using the DISM tool to capture an image, see DISM Image Management Command-Line Options.

Step 4: Save images to the network or another safe location.

Connect an external drive, or connect to a safe network location, for example:

If prompted, provide your network credentials.

Copy the partitions to your network share. For example,

Apply the images

Step 1: Prepare to apply partitions

Start your destination device by using WindowsВ PE.

Connect an external drive, or connect to a safe network location, for example:

If prompted, provide your network credentials.

Wipe the hard drive and create new partitions.

To apply to multiple devices, save the Diskpart commands into a script and run them on each new device. For examples, see Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions or Configure BIOS/MBR-Based Hard Drive Partitions. Example:

Where D: is a USB flash drive or other file storage location.

In these DiskPart examples, the partitions are assigned the letters: System=S, Windows=W, and Recovery=R.

Change the Windows drive letter to a letter that’s near the end of the alphabet, such as W, to avoid drive letter conflicts. Do not use X, because this drive letter is reserved for Windows PE. After the device reboots, the Windows partition is assigned the letter C, and the other partitions don’t receive drive letters.

If you reboot, WindowsВ PE reassigns disk letters alphabetically, starting with the letter C, without regard to the configuration in Windows Setup. This configuration can change based on the presence of different drives, such as USB flash drives.

Optional: speed up the image capture by setting the power scheme to High performance:

Step 2: Apply the partitions

Windows and data partitions: Apply the image(s), example:

where W: is the Windows partition.

System partition: You can either:

Configure the system partition by using the BCDBoot tool. This tool copies and configures system partition files by using files from the Windows partition. For example:

Apply a custom image

Where S: is the system partition

Recovery partition:

a. You can either:

Copy the Windows Recovery Environment (RE) tools into the recovery tools partition.

Where R: is the recovery partition

Apply a custom image

b. Register the location of the recovery tools, and hide the recovery partition using Diskpart. You can use our sample script or perform the steps manually:

Diskpart steps for UEFI:

Diskpart steps for BIOS:

Step 3: Verify that it worked

Reboot the device ( exit ). Windows should boot.

If the device doesn’t boot, (for example, if you receive the error message: Bootmgr not found. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL) check the steps for setting up the system partition:

• See BCDBoot command-line options for more info about copying boot files to the system partition.
• Use the DiskPart tool to check to make sure that the system partition is set to Active.

Complete the out of box experience (OOBE) as a new user, and check the recovery partition:

Check that in File Explorer that the Recovery partition is not visible.

View the partitions exist, either by right-clicking Start and selecting Disk Management, or by using diskpart (Open a command prompt as an administrator > diskpart > select disk 0 > list partition > exit ).

Восстановление ноутбука, Использование раздела восстановления – Инструкция по эксплуатации Asus N53J

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Руководство пользователя ноутбука

Использование раздела восстановления

Раздел восстановления предоставляет возможность быстрого

восстановления программного обеспечения на ноутбуке в его

оригинальное рабочее состояние. Перед использованием раздела

восстановления, скопируйте Ваши данные на USB устройство

или сетевой диск и запишите параметры конфигурации (например

О разделе восстановления

Раздел восстановления — пространство, зарезервированное

на Вашем жестком диске, используемое для восстановления

операционной системы, драйверов и утилит, установленных на

Ваш ноутбук на заводе.

В А Ж Н О ! Н е у д а л я й т е

р а з д е л с н а з в а н и е м

R E C O V E R Y . Р а з д е л

восстановления создан на

заводе и при удалении не

может быть восстановлен

пользователем. Если у Вас есть проблемы с процессом

восстановления, обратитесь в сервис-центр ASUS.

Использование раздела восстановления:

1. Во время загрузки нажмите (требуется раздел

2. Нажмите для выбора Windows Setup .
3. Выберите язык, используемый при восстановлении и нажмите

4. Прочитайте ASUS Preload Wizard и нажмите Далее.
5. Выберите раздел и нажмите Далее. Опции раздела:

Recover Windows to first partition only.

Эта опция удалит только первый раздел, позволив Вам сохранить

другие разделы и создаст новый системный раздел как диск “C”.
Recover Windows to entire HD.

Эта опция удалит все разделы на Вашем жестком диске и создаст

Windows 10 Clean Installation — Recovery Partition Position

this is my first post and I wish to deeply thank you for giving newbies like me the chance of being here.

What I did
I performed a clean (fresh) installation of Windows 10 on different PC’s, specifically two Lenovo laptops, Z50-70 and Yoga 2 13 (Home 64 bit), and a HP ProDesk 400 (Pro 64 bit).
As all machines came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed, the first thing was to Upgrade all systems to Windows 10 to avoid any later activation problems.

Then I used a bootable USB key prepared with the Media Creation Tool made available by Microsoft here:
Get Windows 10

What happened
During the clean installation, having chosen «Custom: Install Windows only», I was asked «Where do you want to install Windows» (images refer to the installation performed on the Lenovo Z50).

Hence, I took the chance of getting rid of the mess of partitions, mostly useless, which affects, to a different extent, all pre-loaded PC’s, and that includes recovery partition(s) added after upgrades to more recent OS’s. Kindly note that to revert to factory settings one must first create an external recovery drive because after having deleted the recovery partition(s) this will no longer be possible. I confirmed deleting

and I obtained a very nice single Unallocated Space

where I created a New partition. As a matter of fact, Windows Setup, diligently and without any further prompts, created the «default partition layout for UEFI-based PCs [. ]: a system partition, an MSR, a Windows partition, and a recovery tools partition». (Source: UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions , Microsoft).

The only difference being that the Recovery partition is the first one and not the last one.
The rest of the installations went on regularly and everything works just fine now.

Why am I puzzled
In the above mentioned article about UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions the Author, where it gets to the Recovery tools partition, states that «We recommend that you place this partition immediately after the Windows partition. This allows Windows to modify and recreate the partition later if future updates require a larger recovery image.»

Which makes perfectly sense to me!

And, in fact, he shows the following as the already mentioned «default partition layout for UEFI-based PCs«:

Questions

1. Is the position of the Recovery Partition really important or the array set by the Windows Setup media should be considered as fine?
2. Is there any possible ways of setting a different position for the Recovery partition through the Windows Setup process , considering that the instructions about where positioning the Recovery Partition are embedded in the Microsoft official media against what the very same Microsoft states?
3. In the Clean install of Windows 10 on the Microsoft Community forum, a Contributor clearly put up a
   «WARNING: When clean installing Windows 10, do not create a recovery partition on the Hard Drive. Doing so will cause Windows 10 Operating System to display «Windows is not Activated» in Computer Properties, forcing you to go into Disk Management, and delete the Recovery Partition, and Extend it to your C:.» In your experience, is this true? For sure not in mine.

Thank you all in advance for your co-operation.

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Всем привет тут такое дело угробил я виндовс виста на ноутбуке ASUS F3Tc,
но в комплекте к нему шол диск, Recovery DVD ASUSTeK Computer Inc. и так установил я этот диск в дисковод и перезагрузилса, после этого в низу экрана поевилась полоска загрузки с надписью windows is loading files, как при установке windows, после загрузки поевилось меню.

ASUS Preload
ASUS Preload Wizard

This Recovery Wizard has been programmed to operate only with your ASUS Notebook
Series. IT WILL NOT WORK WITH ANY OTHER COMPUTER SYSTEM.

Please be aware that all software on the Recovery CD is subject to the terms of the
Software license agreements that come with your ASUS Notebook Series. Your use of
This CD means that you agree to all of those license agreement terms.

All your files on the hard disk’s partition(s) will be lost while using the Recovery CD.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages.

и три кнопки BACK NEXT и CANCEL нажал NEXT дальше поевилось меню

ASUS Preload
ASUS Preload Wizard

Select the appropriate option below:

( ) Recover Windows to first partition only.

( ) Recover Windows to entire HD.

( ) Recover Windows to entire HD with 2 partition.

и тагже три кнопки BACK NEXT и CANCEL, незнаю что выбрать плохо знаю английский пожалуйста помогите.

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U-Nick
Ну, если есть куда выложить 180Мб, могу дать свой конструктор — BartPE с любимыми прогами.

Подключение и правка реестра другой копии ОС:

Открыть редактор реестра regedit.exe.
Встать на ветку HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE или HKEY_USERS.
Файл —> Загрузить куст.
Выбрать файл реестра в папке \Windows\System32\Config (System и/или Software).
Дать ему произвольное название для подключения.
Найти и исправить ключ.
Выгрузить куст.

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Цитата: А вот списочек любимых пр0г — эт интересно.

Легко

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Цитата: Ссылочку на LockSmith подкинь.

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Sergey-MRS писал(а): Всем привет тут такое дело угробил я виндовс виста на ноутбуке ASUS F3Tc,
но в комплекте к нему шол диск, Recovery DVD ASUSTeK Computer Inc. и так установил я этот диск в дисковод и перезагрузилса, после этого в низу экрана поевилась полоска загрузки с надписью windows is loading files, как при установке windows, после загрузки поевилось меню.

ASUS Preload
ASUS Preload Wizard

This Recovery Wizard has been programmed to operate only with your ASUS Notebook
Series. IT WILL NOT WORK WITH ANY OTHER COMPUTER SYSTEM.

Please be aware that all software on the Recovery CD is subject to the terms of the
Software license agreements that come with your ASUS Notebook Series. Your use of
This CD means that you agree to all of those license agreement terms.

All your files on the hard disk’s partition(s) will be lost while using the Recovery CD.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages.

и три кнопки BACK NEXT и CANCEL нажал NEXT дальше поевилось меню

ASUS Preload
ASUS Preload Wizard

Select the appropriate option below:

( ) Recover Windows to first partition only.

( ) Recover Windows to entire HD.

( ) Recover Windows to entire HD with 2 partition.

и тагже три кнопки BACK NEXT и CANCEL, незнаю что выбрать плохо знаю английский пожалуйста помогите.

Использование раздела восстановления: (как восстановить систему на ноутбуке asus; asus recovery; asus recovery раздел)
1. Во время загрузки нажмите (требуется раздел восстановления).
2. Нажмите для выбора Windows Setup .
3. Прочитайте ASUS Preload Wizard и нажмите Next.
4. Выберите раздел и нажмите Next. Опции раздела:
Recover Windows to first partition only.
Эта опция удалит только первый раздел, позволив Вам сохранить другие разделы и создаст новый системный раздел как диск «C».
Recover Windows to entire HD.
Эта опция удалит все разделы на Вашем жестком диске и создаст новый системный раздел как диск «C».
Recover Windows to entire HD with 2 partition.
Эта опция удалит все разделы на Вашем жестком диске и создаст два новых раздела «C» (60%) и «D» (40%).
5. Следуйте инструкциям на экране для завершения процесса.