Windows 10: Wiped hard drive partitions keep coming back on Win10 Recovery disc

Hi All,

My scenario is complicated. But if someone can suggest something, I owe you the return favor.

I have a micromax canvas laptab LT666W that runs Win 10.

I started getting boot error where in it does not boot

First, I tried with recovery disc which did not work.

Then I downloaded the Win 10 recovery disc from this forum. I was able to load the virtual OS on a flash drive without any issues.

Through file explorer, I was able to access all the 28 GB of data on my Tab's hard drive.

But when I attempt a format, it is not allowing me to do.

When I attempt to wipe drive and create new partition while installing a fresh copy of Win10 it fails.

When I use partition magic using virtual drive, wipe is showing as successful but all the contents come back as if by magic.


I am stuck with this for months. Somebody please help. !!

:)

 

Windows 10 clean install

Hello, I just replaced faulty laptop motherboard. And now it does not recognise old OS. So i hv to reinstall it with flash drive. But while doing so, in disc partition option, is it necessary to wipe all the drives that i hav (i hav 4 C,F,G,H partitions).
I want to install win10 it in C drive. So can my data on other partitions be safe while it fresh installs in C drive? Or will the whole 1tb disc will be wiped clean. Do i need to backup all data?

 

How to create a recovery image/partition in Windows 10

This sounds promising....the recovery disc proceedure does NOT work.... have no idea what Microsoft folks keep talking about checking a Copy the recovery partition block. I obviously have 20 GB recovery partition on a 1TB hard drive, but no such block
shows up and cannot get it to make a recovery disc after having tried two different USB sticks on all four USB ports. From what I read on line I am not the only one that this option is not working for... thanks will try a Full Image backup instead of a recovery
disc.........

 

You have to use Diskpart to /clean the drive through Rescue Media.

Or when doing a clean installation of windows 10 > when you get to the partitions screen > delete every partition
and allow windows to install to the unallocated disk space

 

As stated, Boot off of your Windows installer media, choose your Language, Choose Install. In Drive Options Highlight each partition and Delete them so the whole drive is Unallocated Space. Click Next and Windows will automatically create partitions and Format them during the install.

 

Yes the recovery is a image of the drive and will continue to reinstall the partitions until you update the image of the drive.

Also a Virtual drive is just that. It will behave like a regular drive and contain the virtual partitions that were created when you installed an OS into the VM.

 

Thanks all for taking the time to review my case.

I guess my description was misleading.

I meant I am unable to wipe hard drive`s partitions. Not the virtual drive ones.

Step 1 - Boot error on normal startup saying a recent hardware or software change could be the cause

Step 2 - Repair disc. Attempts to do startup repair but fails saying it could not do so.

Step 3 - New OS installation. On partition delete, I attempted to delete existing partitions. Fails with message we couuldn`t format the drive.

Step 4 - Launched command prompt repair and attempted clean. Though t says clean is successful, contents are still undeleted.

Step 5 - Used partition manager within recovery cd, to format the hard drive of my tab. (32gb). Format says successful but the contents on hard drive came back.

Step 6 - tried to convert partitions to MBR. No luck. Same issue.

I am able to read my hard drive contents through to command prompt. So I am presuming no hard drive crash.

Also virtual ccd works fine. So no processor issue I guess.

I am damned for now unable to figure ouit what is the issue.

 

yes Spunk. I did the same with no luck.

I am not even able to delete the partition. It says we couldn;t delete the partition or format. I will post screen shot at my night time for better clarity. Thanks again.

 

Attaching images of the issue..

See the drive under discussion has 1 data partition and 2 internal ones.
I am unable to delete them.

 

On normal boot, I get this boot error.

However I am able to see the hard drive contents and copy them through recovery disc.




See the contents...

 

STOP... Do not do anything, yet....
Since you can boot into the Rescue Media, we need to gather a few things from your current system.....
And I can help you, reinstall to OS via the Rescue Media...

I assume this is a Touch Tablet with 32GB SSD, running Windows 10 Home > AM I correct ???

This process will take a little time to explain, and requires you to have some computer experience, otherwise it will take a little more effort on my part...

For now > I want you to copy the Install.wim or Install.esd from the Windows Installation Media ( sources\install.*** ) into the Rescue Media's /Sources folder...

Which is it > Install.wim or install.esd ????
Which is Version your PC > Home or Pro ???

 

It is home edition

 

Boot the Rescue Disk and from cmd prompt type >
Diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 4
assign letter=R
exit

go into file explorer and copy > R:\recovery\windowsre\winre.wim to Rescue Media /Sources folder....

Make a "Drivers" folder on the Rescue Media USB
from command prompt type >
Dism /Image:C:\ /Export-Driver /Destination:\drivers

You should end up with a Drivers Folder on the root of Rescue Media ( D:\ )

You should now have the MS Install.wim ( I assume it's a .wim - you never replied)
the OEM winre.wim and the boot.wim in the sources folder on the Rescue media USB ( D:\ )

 

It is a wim. I gonna try this right now and update. Meanwhile I attempted a startup repair and somehow the test ran for sometime. The srtTrail revealed registry corruption as the cause.

However restoring the registry backup did not solve the issue. Just for your info.
I will go by your instructions. Trying it.