Create OEM Like recovery Solution for Laptop

[navid]

Hello folks. I wanted help to create a custom Recovery partition on my laptop with windows 7 and OEM softwares preinstalled by means of the windows 7 opk tool from microsoft. It should also have a proper boot menu recovery option by means of a hotkey.

My Laptop- Toshiba satellite P305D-S8818. All help is appreciated as the guide with the opk is kinda difficult to understand . This is just for my personal use

Thanks

[Tripredacus]

The OPK is meant for OEMs and it contains a lot of extra information (licensing, rules, etc) that are specifically aimed at those individuals. You should use the WAIK documentation instead, as it doesn't have that extra stuff in it.

So you want to add a recovery partition to an existing single partition system that has Windows 7 installed?

[harshadhparulekar]

1. Pre-Requisites

Install Windows 7(test OS) on a test partition on your hard drive.

Install all your software, tweaks, and customizations on it.

Create a WinPE bootable USB and put GImageX.exe file on it(root location). Remember if you have installed a 32bit test OS then you need WinPE 32bit else 64bit for 64bit test OS.

2. Sysprep

Run the following - C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe

System Cleanup Action = Enter System Audit Mode

Check Generalize option.

Shutdown Options = Reboot

3. Remove the temporary user account’s profile

1. Click Start, type user profile in the Search box, and then click Configure advanced user profile properties in the search results.

2. In the User Profiles dialog box, click the name of the temporary user account you created when you installed Windows 7 on the reference computer, and then click Delete. Click Yes to confirm.

3. Click OK to close the User Profiles dialog box.

4. Remove the temporary user account

1. Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Manage.

2. In the console tree (left pane), click Local Users and Groups.

3. In the details pane (middle pane), double-click Users.

4. Right-click the name of the temporary account you created when you installed Windows 7 on the reference computer, and then click Delete.

5. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the temporary user account.

6. Click OK to acknowledge that you are deleting an administrator account.

7. Close the Computer Management window.

8. Ok, Now copy all your desktop icons and paste those icon over here: C:\Users\Public\Desktop

5. Prepare the computer to start in Windows Welcome using Sysprep

1. Open Sysprep. (Windows 7 automatically runs Sysprep when you start the operating system in Audit mode.)

2. In the System Cleanup Action list, select Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE).

3. Select the Generalize check box.

4. In the Shutdown Options list, select Shutdown.

5. Click OK to run Sysprep and shut down the computer.

6. Capture an image of Windows 7

1. Insert the bootable UFD into a USB port on the reference computer.

2. Turn on the reference computer, and then perform the following tasks:

a. When prompted, open the boot device list. (In most cases, pressing F12 during the basic input/output system [bIOS] splash screen opens the computer’s boot device list.)

b. From the list of boot devices, select the bootable UFD that you inserted in step 1 to start the computer using the bootable UFD.

Note

If you do not see a prompt to display a boot device list, you must enable booting from UFD devices in the computer’s BIOS. For more information, see the computer’s documentation.

3. At the command prompt, type cd\, it will bring you to the root of your UFD, now type GImageX.exe, it will open the GImageX.

4. See attachment. Capture image on another drive on you HDD.

7. Recovery Partition

1. Download Easy BCD 2.0 from here: EasyBCD 2.0 Beta Builds - The NeoSmart Forums (you will need to register on the forum first)

2. open disk management, (type "partition" into the start menu its the first option that comes up)

3a Right click a partition with free space, and click "Shrink Volume" when it asks you to select how much space to shrink by allocate 4GB or 4096MB

3b Right Click the Unallocated Space and Click "New Simple Volume"

4. click ok through the next few screens, i recommend assigning it letter Z:\ so you dont get confused and accidentally delete it or save other files here

5. place your Windows 7 DVD in your drive and go to Computer, right click and then click Open

NOTE: At this point please make sure you have "hide protected operating system files" DISABLED as it occasionally corrupts the copy, to do this press alt in any explorer window, then click tools>folder options>views>hide protected operating system files.

6. Copy the entire contents of the DVD to your Z:\ Partition

7. open Easy BCD and click "add/remove entries" click the tab labelled WinPE,

When it asks for a path browse to "Z:\sources\boot.wim" and click ok, then click "add new entry"

NOTE: At this point there is a good chance easybcd will tell you that the operation failed, just click ok and do it again, from what i can see this is simply its way of asking if your sure, and it will work 2nd time around.

8. thats it your done, when you reboot you will have 2 options, Windows 7, and NST WinPE Image, NST WinPE image is your recovery partition and will act as if you'd put the disk in.

This is a general way to do it. Use you imagination to put data on Recovery Partition.

Source 1 - nice_guy75's post "Building A Standard Image Of Win7 By Capturing Install.wim" at RTWinCustomize.net

Source 2 - Windows 7 - Recovery Partition - Create at www.SevenForums.com

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/58455-recovery-partition-create.html

Edited September 16, 2012 by harshadhparulekar