Automate WinRE in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

My department administrates a lot of 2008 R2 and Windows 7 VM's. The way these systems are configured is that they
are headless (no direct human interaction with the OS itself). I wanted to know if there is a way to make the startup repair tool automatic so no one has to actually tell it to enter the startup repair utility, repair, and boot back into the OS (if possible).

Hi,
Please understand that a computer running Windows Vista or later can automatically fail over into the on-disk Windows RE only if a boot failure is detected. At startup, the Windows loader sets
a status flag to indicate that the boot process has started, and this flag is typically cleared before the Windows logon screen is displayed. If the boot attempt fails, the flag is not cleared. The next time the computer starts, the loader detects the flag
and assumes that a boot failure occurred. When this happens, the loader launches Windows RE instead of Windows. Since these are Windows 7 VMs, if you want to make them auto boot in to WinRE, maybe you could insert the WinRE disk on the virtual drive, and make
it as the first boot option.
Regarding how WinRE works, please refer to the following article.
How Windows RE Works
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722188(v=ws.10).aspx
Best Regards,
Andy Qi
Andy Qi
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