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 ).

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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

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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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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.
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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.

How to create a recovery partition?

So, I got a HP Envy windows 8.1 desktop that came with HDD. I got a SSD drive, cloned the HDD and setup SSD as primary boot drive and HDD for storage.

Now I see that when I try to test the F11 (go in recovery console) to reset the computer to recover factory settings. It gives me error that recovery can’t find.

I reset the windows on SSD (according the feature in windows 8.1 in recovery options) and that wiped my D RECOVERY PARTITION (as I got C & D after cloning from main HDD). The recovery partition on SSD was not working anyway because when I tries to create a recovery drive, it gave me error as it was looking into I Drive which does not exists.

Now I do not have any recovery drive (inbuilt) on SSD. I do have C Drive where windows is installed (cloned from HDD). Instead of creating a recovery flash drive or DVDs, how can I create a recovery D drive PARTITION so that in future if there is any issue or I want to reset the PC, I can use that? and how windows will know to use the PARTITION for recovery?

You have to ensure that your HP Recovery Partition that come up with windows still active and present

in all case you can Create USB / DVD-CD Media Windows Installation and this is not Recovery Partitioned to your computer and nor Recovery Partition from your HDD Drive

This is only if you want to Reset windows and install it from the scratch and called Clean installation in windows ,you can use it to install windows from the explorer if you want to have dual Operating system and also if you want to boot your computer using USB /DVD and install windows normally

in short this is standalone version of windows on DVD and USB Stick also

To create USB Installation Media you need to Format the USB Drive and Windows version .ISO
you need Tool from Microsoft called ( Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool) already explained here .

1- T Create Recovery Partition for your system (very important to make sure that still there any other Recovery partition Present and Active

2- You have to make sure that windows working so fine and without any problems and you can logon into it (Important)

Creating Recovery Partition Using windows Recimg Service : (NO WINDOWS ISO Version OR CD Windows DVD Required )

Follow this link to learn how to make Custom recovery Image for windows 8.1
Keep in your Mind and this is very important ( You Cant Use this Recovery for RESET WINDOWS OR INSTALL IT FROM THE BEGINNING , YOU ONLY CAN USE THIS RECOVERY FOR REFRESHING WINDOWS READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCESSING IN ANY PROCEDURE )

Note: you can use this custom image even if you have HP Recovery Partition still Active Read carefully before doing so

Create Recovery Partition in windows Using Disk Management Service (Windows Version ISO Or Windows DVD Required)

to SHRINK and Occupy specified size of your HDD and make it as Active Recovery Partition, then you need Windows ISO version
Watch this YouTube video here to learn how to make Recovery Partition Using Disk management and EasyBCD Program. This Works in Both Windows 7 and 8.1

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