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[rfdr81]

Hello,

 

I need some help if anyone can do it please: it´s possible to run from a usb disk, multiple recovery images for portable PC, that is in .wim files?

Thanks

[Wonko the Sane]

it´s possible to run from a usb disk, multiple recovery images for portable PC, that is in .wim files?

Yes.
http://homepage.ntlw...no-answers.html

Now, if you could provide the "Standard Litany":
http://homepage.ntlw...ard-litany.html
describing WHAT EXACT images, HOW EXACTLY they are made, WHERE EXACTLY they should reside, i.e. USB stick or USB hard disk, etc. and WHICH EXACT target device they are for, possibly you could get some constructive assistance.

As an example, if a "recovery image" is made by you with "standard tools" it is more likely that there will be an easy way to restore (or "run") it than to attempt to restore a "recovery image" made by some big OEMs using proprietary software.


Wonko

[rfdr81]

hello,
I work on a technical support(several brands, and to install the original software we capture the recovery partition and  we put to work on PXE, but now im trying to put to work on a external disk, in case we don´t have acess to the server PXE. 
 
one manufacturer for exemple, the recovery partition is like this:

boot(folder)
efi(folder)
HDDPREP(folder)
HTMPREP(folder)
NAV(folder)
sources(folder) there is a .wim file here
Tools(folder)
ZZImg(folder) several .swm files above 7GB
bootmgr
Setenv

[Wonko the Sane]

Yes, but the concept of "detailed" or "exact" must have escaped you.
It seems like the partial dir you posted is about a structure that is common between:

1. Vista
2. 7
3. 8
4. 8.1
5. corresponding server versions

basically that structure boots to a PE 2.x or later and then *does something*, each of them may need some different "treatment", and much more than that a brand may have some "hardcoded" path and/or partition ID for the recovery partition, etc., etc.

1. How EXACTLY do you "capture" the recovery partition?
2. How EXACTLY are you currently retrieving/reapplying it through PXE?

Complete, detailed, exhaustive answers to the above two questions are essential as the matter at hand is "translating" your current (I suppose working ) procedure involving a PXE server into a "local" USB hard disk based alternative.

 

 

Wonko