Windows 10: System Image Problem

Aha!

That would qualify as a corrupt System Reserve partition.

The following is ONLY for BIOS / MBR machines


Boot the machine the same way you were to do the restore
Press Shift+F10 - that should open a command prompt

Take a camera pic of the diskpart and I can help walk through it
Otherwise, if you're comfortable with diskpart, you want to select the main drive in the HP desktop (the drive you want to restore the image).

If it's a base machine (no additional drives added) You'll want disk 0 (I'll use that in the example ..... your disks might be different

Launch diskpart, enter the following commands
lis dis
lis vol

sel dis 0
cre par pri size=450
format FS=NTFS Label="System Reserve" Quick

cre par pri
format FS=NTFS Label="Windows 10" Quick
assign letter=C
exit
That's my best guess at how your disk was partitioned. If you know something was different - please tell me *Wink

 

When I boot the system with no OS, I have to hit esc to go to the Boot Menu. When there I go down until I see the USB flash drive and pick it. After this, it starts to load Win 10, then I see the language, time and Keyboard screen, I pick next and it goes to the install or repair your computer screen. I pick "Repair your computer". The next screen is where I choose an option of either "Troubleshoot" or "Turn off your PC", I pick "Troubleshoot". Next it goes to the screen where it give the choice of "Reset this PC" or "Advanced options", where I pick the latter. Here I can pick "System Image Recovery", here I evoke "Shift + F10" and the command prompt screen comes up to "X:\Sources", it is here that I type "Diskpart" and press enter. Now the problem is that every time I pick on the "Insert Image" button, it hangs up this post.

Here is what is on the command prompt screen:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240]


X:\Sources>diskpart

Copyright (c) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On Computer: MININT-QFDNHR0

DISKPART>

 

Thanks ... I need a little help though

C: is the partition where you wan to restore Win10 form your image - right?
I can't quite make out the size of the partitions

C: is 596 GB ?? and RAW
H: is 450 MB ??
D: Hp Pavillion is 298 GB ???

E: ESD-USB - is the install media
F: external Mybook
G: external Seagate

It makes it a bit difficult to figure out what partitions are on which drive when you have other drives attached.
What I need to know are ... the correct sizes of the volumes and the drive they're on

I'm almost certain C: and H: are on Disk 0 ..... E, F, and G don't concern me right now.

D: looks to be on a different drive - but that would be odd not to have the HP Recovery partition on the same drive as the OS
I've it around on my HP machines before too, so it's only important if I characterized it and it is on the same drive.

Anyway please identify the volumes on the drives

Disk 0 - C:\ (596 GB) and H:\ (450 MB)
Disk 1 - D:\ (298 GB)

Once I'm confident that there's nothing on Disk 0 worth keeping, we'll clean it and try a restore
We might have to create the partitions and then try the restore, but I think it should work on a bare disk

 

The boot drive that came with the computer is a 600 GB drive, partitioned into originally C: Disk 0 596 GB, for the system, and D: Disk 0 450 MB, for recovery of Vista, but when it does the Image restore it does a format to the drive, and give it the designation of Disk 0 - C:\ (596 GB) and H:\ (450 MB). I'm not interested in the partition of H:\

There is another internal drive that you see as Disk 1 - D:\ (298 GB), a 300 GB drive. I also have two external HDD's Disk 7 - F:\ My Book (931 GB) a 1 TB HDD, and Disk 8 - G:\ My System Image backup drive (3726 GB) a 4 TB HDD.

Disk 0 - C:\ (596 GB) Volume 3 RAW and H:\ (450 MB) Volume 4 NTFS, which I don't need, I think
Disk 1 - D:\ (298 GB) Volume 5 NTFS

I see a problem I think with the install USB as a FAT32???

 

Ok, when you boot to external media, the drive letters aren't always the same.

So I think H:\ in your picture is what you say was D:

No Fat32 is fine for the install USB.

Let me mull over the information a few more times and I'll post what I think needs to be done.

 

Sorry, lost your thread for a while.

It was staring me in the face. Disk 0 only has 15 GB free.

I still want to understand the setup before then next step

Boot to the install media again
Shift+F10 to open Command

diskpart
sel dis 0
lis par

sel dis 1
lis par

Take another picture of the diskpart output
and post it as you did before

exit
exit
Press the X to exit the install if that's where you return after closing the Command Prompt

Thanks, hopefully that will give me what I need to make a decision.

 

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it. Since you had trouble see my last photo and the listing is pretty short, I'll just type it out, OK.

DISKPART>sel dis 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> lis par

Partition ### Type Size Offset
-------------- ------------ --------- -----------
Partition 1 Primary 580 GB 31 KB
Partition 2 Recovery 450 MB 580 GB

DISKPART> sel dis 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> lis par

Partition ### Type Size Offset
--------------- ------------- ---------- ------------
Partition 1 Primary 298 GB 31 KB

DISKPART>


How this helps!

 

Before I was matching size to the partition and space on the disk
Now I know for certain which partition is on which disk

More precautionary on my part - sometimes I post too fast.
The next thing will be to change the disk and I want to be absolutely certain.

Thanks for typing all of that out *Biggrin

Now I have to look at all of the good information you posted and figure out what commands to post.
It's after midnight here, I promise not to lose track of your thread again, but I won't get to this until the morning.

Bill
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Got a question Bill,

Would deleting that recovery partition help, since I don't use it, then do a complete format of the drive so as to allow the 500 MB limit for the system reserve? Just fishing here.

Next, is there anyway to read the VHDX file to see what it expects the drive to be?
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Nick

 

{'m sorry about being a pain, but I just looked at the volume of the drives and I noticed that Drive C:'s Fs is RAW and the restore partition H: (which should be D:, which I don't need), is NTFS. Is this correct?
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Nick

 

You're no pain at all - you're right on track. That's exactly what you're going to do!

I finally wrote it all down - doesn't seem like much now that I look at it, but I always err on the side of caution when I'm not standing next to someone giving advice.

Please look over this stuff and ask questions. I use shorthand for diskpart command -
| lis=list | dis=disk | par=partition | vol=volume | sel=select | del=delete | ... most are obvious


If nothing has changed as far as disks go, then first you list the disks
From the data you posted

Disk 0 596 GB Vol 3 Ltr C 580 GB Vol 4 Ltr H 450 MB Disk 1 298 GB Vol 5 Ltr D HP Pavillion 298 GB Disk 2 7663 MB Vol 6 Ltr E ESD-USB 7662 MB Disk 7 931 GB Vol 11 Ltr F My Book 931 GB Disk 8 3726 GB Vol 12 Ltr G Seagate Exp 3725
Process overview:

Offline the disks you don't want to affect
disks 1, 7 & 8

Delete partitons on the disk you want restore the image
disk 0

Online the disks you want to use for the Image restore
disks 1, 7 & 8

Use the Repair options on the install media
and drill down through the menu picks to Restore Image

I threw in a few lists between operations so you can review the status.
The only destructive commands are del par and del par override on disk 0

Process commands:

diskpart

lis dis

sel dis 1
offline dis

sel dis 7
offline dis

sel dis 8
offline dis

lis dis

sel dis 0

sel par 1
del par

sel par 2
del par override

lis par
lis vol

sel dis 2
online dis

sel dis 7
online dis

sel dis 8
online dis

exit
exit

You should be at the initial install screen (language, time, keybd)
Next
Select Repair
and drill down through the menu picks to Restore Image

When the Use latest image window diplays - double check the date and volumes to be restored
You can always pick select image to use in the restore if you have more than one
--> You might want to peek at what other images are available ... you can use the one offered originally or go back in time to an earlier image

If the option to format and partition disk is active - then select it
If it is not active, the the restore will decide and in most cases format and partition to match the image

Give it a shot and here's hoping the best.


Bill
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I pulled disk 2 the USB, is that OK?

 

Problems, I get this error when I select next from the initial install screen (language, time, keybd), error 0x80070002. Now what????
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Nick

 

Never mind, I got it to go to the next screen, I'll let you know.
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Nick