Howto start Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)?

Hi
I have Satellite Pro U200 PLUA1E-02802QS with Vista Business 32-bit and the WinRE partition.
Howto start Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)?
I mean which keyboard key should I press during the startup process to get WinRE menu?

In my Satellite Pro A300 the F8 key during start-up will run the HDD Recovery partition.
Hope it is the same on your.
Or do you possibly mean the Vista Business Recovery environment. Accessed by control panel, system recovery from image?
/Torbjorn
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[SOLVED] How Do I Prepare Windows Recovery Environment on Windows 10. Taking Backup Measures on Your Windows Using ReagentC Tool and PowerShell

Howdy,
I'm trying to enable my system with WinRE but all to no avail. What could be wrong?
The partition layout is as follows:
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Partition -DiskNumber 4
DiskId: \\?\scsi#disk&ven_msft&prod_virtual_disk#2&2e87576f&0&000002#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
PartitionNumber DriveLetter Offset Size Type
1 1048576 500 MB Recovery
2 525336576 100 MB System
3 630194176 128 MB Reserved
4 E 764411904 95 GB Basic
5 102769885184 4.29 GB Recovery
I formatted this 1st recovery partition into FAT32 and mounted the volume as R:
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Partition -DiskNumber 4 -PartitionNumber 1 | Format-Volume -FileSystem FAT32 -NewFileSystemL
abel RECOVERY -Force -Confirm:$false
Then I created the storage folder for the Recovery Environment on this R: volume:
PS C:\Windows\system32> mkdir "R:\Recovery\WindowsRE"
Directory: R:\Recovery
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
d----- 13.01.2015 20:15 WindowsRE
And copied the WinRE.wim file from the storage folder on the Windows partition:
PS C:\Windows\system32> xcopy /H E:\Windows\System32\Recovery\Winre.wim R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\
E:\Windows\System32\Recovery\winRE.wim
1 File(s) copied
Finally, I attempted to enable the copied WinRE and registed it in Windows like that:
PS C:\Windows\system32> ReAgentc.exe /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ /target E:\Windows
Directory set to: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk4\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
However, checking the status with Reagent returns that WinRE is DISABLED:
PS C:\Windows\system32> ReAgentc.exe /info /target E:\Windows
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Disabled
Windows RE location:
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
And also:
PS C:\Windows\system32> .\ReAgentc.exe /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Disabled
Windows RE location:
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 6a7e9cfb-700d-11e4-95e0-00155d095900
Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk3\partition4\RecoveryImage
Recovery image index: 4
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Why is that? What am I doing wrong here?
How do I properly prepare OS for recovery?
Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given...

The target drive with location of WinRE.wim file MUST be NTFS formatted.
Here's what you need to do to enable WinRE.wim that is located on another partition (Partition 1 in my case):
1. Disable the current setup:
C:\Windows\system32>reagentc /disable
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
2. Check the status:
C:\Windows\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Disabled
Windows RE location:
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk4\partition5\Recovery
Recovery image index: 1
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
3. Make sure that C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\ReAgent.xml contains zeroes in location elements.
This is a proper config:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes'?>
<WindowsRE version="2.0">
<WinreBCD id=""></WinreBCD>
<WinreLocation path="" id="0" offset="0"></WinreLocation>
<ImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0"></ImageLocation>
<PBRImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" index="0"></PBRImageLocation>
<PBRCustomImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" index="0"></PBRCustomImageLocation>
<InstallState state="0"></InstallState>
<OsInstallAvailable state="0"></OsInstallAvailable>
<CustomImageAvailable state="0"></CustomImageAvailable>
<WinREStaged state="0"></WinREStaged>
<ScheduledOperation state="4"></ScheduledOperation>
<OperationParam path=""></OperationParam>
<OsBuildVersion path=""></OsBuildVersion>
<OemTool state="0"></OemTool>
</WindowsRE>
This is an incorrect config (this one demonstrates an already configured WinRE and OS Image configurations and cannot be reused to set another locations of WinRE and OSImage:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<WindowsRE version="2.0">
<WinreBCD id="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}"/>
<WinreLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}"/>
<ImageLocation path="\Recovery\WindowsRE" id="0" offset="1048576" guid="{a235fafb-a690-11e4-95dc-00155d095900}"/>
<PBRImageLocation path="\Recovery" id="0" offset="102769885184" guid="{a235fafb-a690-11e4-95dc-00155d095900}" index="1"/>
<PBRCustomImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" index="0"/>
<InstallState state="0"/>
<OsInstallAvailable state="1"/>
<CustomImageAvailable state="0"/>
<IsAutoRepairOn state="1"/>
<WinREStaged state="1"/>
<OperationParam path=""/>
<OsBuildVersion path="9926.0.amd64fre.fbl_awesome1501.150119-1648"/>
<OemTool state="0"/>
<IsServer state="0"/>
<DownlevelWinreLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}"/>
<IsWimBoot state="0"/>
<ScheduledOperation state="4"/>
</WindowsRE>
4. Assign a drive letter to Partition 1.
C:\Windows\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.9926
Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: EH
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 2 Online 931 GB 0 B *
Disk 3 Online 930 GB 0 B *
Disk 4 Online 100 GB 0 B *
DISKPART> sel disk 4
Disk 4 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list part
Partition ### Type Size Offset
Partition 1 Recovery 500 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 System 100 MB 501 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 601 MB
Partition 4 Primary 95 GB 729 MB
Partition 5 Recovery 4390 MB 95 GB
DISKPART> sel part 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> assign letter="R"
DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.
5. Remove existing Recovery folders on R:
R:\>rd Recovery /q /s
6. Prepare folder structure:
R:\>mkdir Recovery
R:\>mkdir Recovery\WindowsRE
7. Copy WinRE.wim image to WindowsRE:
R:\>xcopy /H C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\Winre.wim R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\
C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\Winre.wim
1 File(s) copied
8. Copy config file:
R:\>xcopy /H C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\ReAgent.xml R:\Recovery\WindowsRE
C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\ReAgent.xml
1 File(s) copied
4. Set WinRE recovery environment:
R:\>reagentc /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE /target C:\Windows
Directory set to: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk4\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
5. Check the status:
C:\Windows\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Disabled
Windows RE location:
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
6. Enable the specified WinRE:
Here's what you'll get if your target partition (with volume labeled R: in this example) is not formatted in NTFS:
R:\>reagentc /enable
REAGENTC.EXE: Windows RE must be installed on a simple volume formatted using NTFS.
That's what you'll get if it is formatted into NTFS:
R:\>reagentc /enable
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
7. Check the status:
R:\>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk4\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: e2b06021-6f56-11e4-82ee-abb7ebf625e8
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Your Windows setup has just been enabled with WinRE pre-boot recovery environment located on the first partition of your drive:
8. Specify location of OS Image file (the install.wim one copied from Windows Setup DVD):
R:\>reagentc /setosimage /path \\?\Volume{A235FAFF-A690-11E4-95DC-00155D095900}\Recovery /index 1 /target C:\Windows
Directory set to: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk4\partition5\Recovery
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
9. Check the status:
R:\>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk4\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: e2b06021-6f56-11e4-82ee-abb7ebf625e8
Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk4\partition5\Recovery
Recovery image index: 1
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Your Windows Recovery Environment is now located on the 1st partition of 4th disk drive and recovery image file the can be used to re-image Windows installation from that WinRE environment is located on the 5th partition of the same 4th disk.
See also
Configuring Windows Recovery Using PowerShell
Proper Configuration of Partition Layout on a GPT Disk under UEFI
Deploy a System Recovery Image
Thank you, Michael for your help!
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I cannot acces the Windows Recovery Environment

Dear HP experts,
I bougt an HP Pavilion notebook earlier this year with Windows 8. I must have some malware on it cause it recently started openig random pages in Chrome and other annoying advert stuff.
Therefore I would like to do a full reset to factory settings through the HP recovery manager.
When I try accessing it though the function "Windows Recovery Environment" seems to be disabled.
Also when rebooting the notebook and pressing "escape" it gives the option to excess the recovery environment by pressing F11. However when doing so nothing happens and the notebook just starts normally.
Can anyone help me to excess the recovery manager environment?
I would really appreciate any help, thanks.
Sanne

Hi @SannedeGoede,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I would be happy to help you, but it would be best to get some product specific information, the full product/model number and OS version. Please read the following documents if you need help in finding those.
How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?
Is the Windows Version on My Computer 32-bit or 64-bit?
Have you tried to check your computer for malware/spyware/viruses and such first? Depending on what is found it could be something you can fix before doing anything like a system recovery.
I personally would start with that, and you want to be sure you setup a good program to protect you from this sort of thing in future, or at least make it less likely.
About Spyware, Adware, and Browser Hijacking Software
Using Windows 8 Defender to Prevent Virus and Spyware Problems
After checking for all the "lovely" possible software infections and removing them if possible, then if you are still having trouble I would then look at a system restore, and select a point from before when the problem first appeared. Hopefully you have one available. Often that will fix things, but it is important to screen your computer for those "infections" first, otherwise you will just end up having the same problem
Using Microsoft System Restore (Windows 8)
If after trying all of those, then I would look at system recovery. Hopefully you will have resolved it before reaching this.
Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows 8)
Troubleshooting HP System Recovery Problems (Windows 8)
I hope that all of this helps.
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Doing fancy stuff in Windows Recovery Environment

Hi,
I am trying to do some clever stuff in WinRE but I am unsure if it supports it. firstly I would like to be able to run a script as soon as WinRE has loaded which will output some text in a text file on the local disk (this script can be any language but
I would prefer PowerShell if its supported)
then I would like to start networking
and then call another script which is located on a server share.
is this possible at all to get things started on system startup when in the WinRE?
thanks
Steve

Hi,
As you descripted in the post, the script should be added to a WinPE, not a WinRE,
WinRE has two primary functions, that of diagnosing problems using the Startup Repair tool and providing a platform for advanced recovery tools,
http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/
While in a WinPE, you can Set up a Windows PE Build Environment, Add Additional Packages, extra steps you can refer to this for help:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709665(v=ws.10).aspx
Another thing is the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) is necessary for customizing a WinPE, you can find it from microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652
As for the script, I suggest to add PowerShell to Windows PE, steps as below:
1.Install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK), adding the Deployment Tools and Windows PE features.
2.Start the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment as an administrator.
3.Create a working copy of the Windows PE files. Specify either x86, amd64, or arm
More details, you can find it here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn605289.aspx
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How to load drivers in Windows 8 Recovery Environment??

Hi everyone,
I'm really stuck here with my HP dv7t-7200 laptop.. I'm running Windows 8 Pro (64-bit) & after a Windows Update reboot, I can't get to the start screen. The spinning balls continue for hours & hours. I know there's a recent restore point that I can
restore to, but I'm having trouble accomplishing this..
My laptop has a RAID array, so I need to load the storage driver in order for the Windows Recovery Environment to be able to see the hard drives. I don't see any options for doing this, can someone please help..? Here's where I'm at step-by-step:
1) Boot from Windows 8 DVD
2) Choose "Repair this computer"
3) Choose "Troubleshoot"
4) Choose "Advanced Options"
5) Choose "System Restore"
Step (5) gives an error message : "To use System Restore, you must specify which Windows installation to restore. Restart this computer, select an operating system, and then select System Restore"
I believe this is occurring b/c
Windows, as booted from DVD, can't see the logical hard drive. If I could figure out how to load the Intel storage driver from USB, I think Window-on-DVD would be able to find the restore point on my hard drive. In Windows 7 Recovery, there's an option to
"Load drivers" during a repair operation. Where is this option in Windows 8?
Here are further troubleshooting steps I tried, based on Internet search results:
A) How do I mount the USB stick (which has the RAID driver for the laptop)? The following link is old, but the steps work. I stopped after step 6.
Internet search : windows command prompt mount usb
http://www.ehow.com/how_8541121_mount-usb-drives-windows-xp.html
B) After navigating to the mounted USB drive & appropriate folder, how do I load the RAID driver for the laptop? The following link suggests to use pnputil.exe, but this program won't run in my Windows 8 DVD recovery environment command prompt.
In any case, is it true that if & when I'm finally able to load the RAID driver, then DISKPART should be able to mount the drive & System Restore should see the Windows installation & offer to repair it?
Internet search: load windows drivers from command prompt
http://superuser.com/questions/531594/windows-how-to-install-driver-from-recovery-command-prompt
Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
Brad

Sergey: WOW & thanks, you are definitely the man! I want you to know that you've solved a problem that three levels of MS tech support haven't been able to work out..
I worked with a level 2 tech agent for several days, 20 minutes at a time. He was going back & forth with level 3 support staff, getting ideas from them & passing on to me. The level 2 guy finally told me it's not possible to load drivers during a Windows
8 system restore & gave up on my support ticket.
The manager then called for customer satisfaction follow-up. He said he had confirmed that Windows 7 DVD had the ability to load drivers for System Restore, but unfortunately this feature was removed for Windows 8. I convinced him that even so, *someone* at
MS must know a way to to load drivers for System Restore. He said he'd take it on as a personal challenge & would find s/o to assist.
Shortly thereafter, I got a call from a guy saying he's in the Research department at MS. He was immediately familiar with my problem. He said that he had previously resolved it by breaking the RAID mirror in the BIOS, which would allow Windows 8 DVD to recognize
one of the drives as an ordinary SATA drive & then load a driver for it. As we started down that path in my BIOS, he became concerned that actually, breaking my RAID mirror might cause data loss. He said he'd get back to me (that was a couple of days ago)..
So the question in my original post is solved, thank you again.
P.S. I still can't get Windows 8 restored, and might after all just have to reinstall everything!
1) I followed your instructions exactly & indeed, System Restore found the Windows 8 installation.
2) I chose the latest restore point & executed the restore. Operation initialized successfully but then failed with a disk read error.
3) I quit the Restore, which caused auto-reboot. I followed your steps again but navigated this time to Repair / Troubleshooting / Advanced Options / Command Prompt
4) I ran DISKPART, then "list volumes" to determine boot drive letter = E: (on my system)
5) I exited diskpart, verified I was on a non-boot drive, & ran "chkdsk E: /X /F"
6) "Corrections to the file system" were made
7) For good measure, I ran "bootrec /FixMbr" & then "bootrec /FixBoot"
8) I exited the command prompt & navigated to System Restore. Same error message.
9) I followed your steps again, but navigated to Automatic Repair.
10) Automatic Repair -> "Windows couldn't load correctly"
Brad

T430: Win 7 total crash - safe mode unstable, recovery environment gone

Hi everybody,
I've had my T430 since November and have been dual-booting Win 7 64bit and Ubuntu since then. I'm booting both OSs off of a Crucial M4 SSD and all my data sits in the drive caddy on the original HDD.
A couple of days ago, the windows partition just decided it didn't want to part of this world anymore. I've made no major changes to the system, but after selecting Windows 7 in the boot loader I was met with a BSOD for a fraction of a second and then reboot.
Ubuntu works fine and still recognizes everything, which leads me to assume that nothing's wrong with the SSD itself - it failed the SMART test, but that apparently doesn't really carry any weight with SSDs.
Now, I used the Lenovo-issued "Windows Recovery Environment" to let the system repair itself. That took all night, so I went to bed. Next morning I was greeted by the Win7 login screen, but after entering my credentials the system got stuck in a sort of "loading loop". I forcefully shut down the system and tried to get into Safe Mode. While that works, the system is ULTRA sluggish, everything takes for ever and I've been running Malwarebytes on the Win7 boot partition for the last four hours, which is a lot longer than I would expect it to take. CPU usage is around 0%.
What gives?
At this point I'd like to either return to the "Windows 7 Recovery Environment" or completely re-install the OS, but here's the catch: The Recovery Environment is gone, completely gone. When I select it's entry in the boot loader, Win 7 boots up. The Recovery partition itself is still there, but it seems to be unbootable.
What is happening? Can I download a recovery DVD somewhere? Should I call CS? I'm very confused.
Edit: About the recovery partition - I'm fairly certain that Ubuntu sees all the data and files on there, but Win Safe Mode thinks there is nothing at all on there. I can't double check at the time since I want malwarebytes to finish whatever it is doing.

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Satellite U - Crashes when starting windows and recovery cannot fix

Most of the time but not every time the laptop crashes when starting windows.
I get a blue screen, a dump file is created and then it restarts and gives me the option of starting windows normally or using windows recovery. The windows recovery cannot fix the problem.
When I select the option of opening windows normally everything works fine with no problems.
If I restart the laptop it never crashes.
The problem only happens about 90% of the time when switching it on.
The problem started soon after buying the laptop in October.
Originally it came with Windows Vista and I wondered if the problem was with Vista so yeterday I upgraded to Windows 7 but it still crashes on most start ups. Otherwise the laptop works fine and I am pleased with it.
I suspect the problem might be with Realtec but the drivers appear to be up to date. My internet security is trend micro.
I wondered if it might be a hardware problem when it happens under both Vista and windows 7.
Has anyone got any ideas about what might be causing the laptop to crash on startup?

I have exactly the same problem with the laptop (U500 11E) crashing on startup, recovery can't do anything and sometimes I get a Windows "solution" box that tries to find something and then just vanishes.
I followed the same procedure as Dave, by upgrading to Win7 thinking that might fix the problem, but it clearly didn't. I also updated all drivers and the BIOS to the latest versions.
I think my trouble started not right out of the box but only after I upgraded to Vista Service Pack 1, but I'm not completely sure.
It is pretty annoying because of course it now takes twice as long to get the laptop up and running.
Finding someone else who also has the problem makes me wonder if the problem might have another cause and if there might be a way to fix it?
Petra

Any ideas for starting mssql in a windows live environment from a drive that has windows installed

This will probably be a strange question,
If you have a server that has mssql and you boot the server into a live windows environment ( loaded into memory on the server much like a live distro of linux.) is there any way to start mssql in that live environment? im guessing here, maybe
load the hive, copy some things to the live environment?
this can be done with linux and mysql and any other application/software installed in linux without issue. i was wondering if there was something similar that could be done in a windows live environment.
thanks for reading.

Hi anita,
I’m writing to follow up with you on this post. Was the problem resolved? If not, as other post, you need to explain the detail about your issue about starting SQL Server.
What is a live windows environment, in addition, we need to verify if you want to start SQL Server Service after installing SQL Server instance in your Windows Operation System.
Usually, if you start SQL Server service, you can use SQL Server Configuration Manager, SQL Server Management Studio, net commands from a command prompt, Transact-SQL, or PowerShell. There is an article about how to start , stop, pause, resume, or restart
the Database Engine and so on.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh403394.aspx
Thanks,
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Sofiya Li
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Windows does not start after recovery

Hi, my son's sattelite 1800 started getting slower and slower to the point where it took almost an hour to boot into Windows. It got to the stage where it looked like recovery from the CD's was the only route - so we did. All looked successful from the recovery point of view but Windows XP Setup displays 'Please wait...' with normal looking disk activity for 20-30 seconds and then hangs - no disk activity, mouse stops responding. I've gone through the recovery in 'expert' mode and don't see any issues with the recovery process. Questions:
1. Has anyone else seen this?
2. What else can I do diagnostic-wise?
3. What, fundamentally, does the recovery process do/ (does it re-format partitions, might it have left a virus?)
4. Am I best following h/w or s/w diags?
Bitshifter

Hello
On this way it is not easy to give you a proper explanation why this happen. If you use the recovery CD for OS installation the HDD will be formatted and the OS will be clean installed. IF you use standard mode the whole HDD capacity will be used for just one partition. Using expert mode you can create two partitions or you can install OS on persisting partition.
Usually after recovery reinstallation there should not be any problem except for HDD malfunction.
Please wait message occur after first start and you can not compare it with usual boot up process. That first start after recovery procedure takes much longer time because the OS must detects all hardware components, install drivers and prepare the OS for the usage.
For further start the OS doesnt need so much time for boot up process.
Bye

Windows 8.1 - Could not find recovery environment

Hello,
So I bought a refurbished lenovo k450 which is this one http://www.microcenter.com/product/428498/k450_desktop_computer except mine has 8gb instead of 12gb, So I'm trying to factory restore my pc and It tells me "Could not find recovery environment" And nothing happens.

Hi Ninja0347,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
Can you try Turning Off the computer completely
Now Turn it back ON and start hitting F2
It should boot you to recovery or atleast Give you option to boot to the Recovery Image.
Hope this helps
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After System recovery all the installed apps are not their EXAMPLE Getting Started Windows 8

I did a factory restore w/ HP tech. giveing me the advice to do so. I have a HP Pavillion 17 notebook. came installed w/ Windows 8 after a few months I upgraded to 8.1 Now after restore Im running 8 My problem is after this re-start I did not get all my factory installed apps. EXAMPLE Getting started Windows 8 and others. Desktop Icons also did not populate except trash quick start icon thats it Please help THE HP TECS I HAVE SPOKE WITH apx. 8 HOURS in 3 days time are very hard to UNDERSTAND AS IM SPEAKING TO THESE GUYS IN INDIA india. tHEY ALL HAVE GAVE ME DIFFERENT ADVICE AND HAVE CAUSED ME TO HAVE MORE PROBLEMS WITH MY SYSTEM THAN I DID IN THE BEGINNING.

Hi @Justriden
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My HP Pavilion 775C with Windows XP 32 bit SP3 has begun to startup in Windows Recovery Mode.

I have had many problems with my Pavilion a775c desktop, running XP 32 Bit with SP3 and 2.5 G Ram. I was receiving a Fatal Error message 1327 that Drive M did not exist. I did a selective startup eliminating the programs I thought were causing this but that did not help. Then I cleaned away all the files for any HP printer, and for my current printer, an Officejet j3680 All-in-One, and then reinstalled it. That took care of the fatal error message but I began to get a message that my DRive D was out of memory. I deleted some regular files that were previously stored on that drive before I increased the memory on my Drive C but I continued to receive that message. I cleaned the registry with Registry Mechanic and then deleted files I though would not harm the computer and I no longer get the Drive D low on memory message but now the computer starts up each time in recovery mode and If I'm not there to select the Windows XP option it goes to a dos screen but nothing ever happens from there. I'm not that familiar with DOS and don't know anything except to type EXIT which I did and the computer would reboot giving my an opportunity to select Windows XP. Now, however, it won't allow me to type EXIT. I must instead hit enter and then it goes to the screen that allows me to select the Windows environment. I really don't want to have to do this each time I start up. Can anyone help?

I am not that familiar anymore with troubleshooting Windows XP, but way back in the day I seem to recall that the Windows recovery console would be used to fix issues like the one you're describing. It sounds like you may have a corrupted boot sector if it keeps going into the windows recovery mode. The solution could be as simple as using the last known good configuration or possibly doing a system restore. You may want to try this link on Technet that explains the recovery console and the tools available in it like fixmbr..
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457126.aspx
Worst case you may be looking at doing a reinstall of windows XP.
I am an employee of HP

Stuck on "Starting Windows" screen

Hello,
For some reason, my laptop graphics display shut down earlier today. So, I tried the shut down my laptop (thinking that it was just overheating from work) and let it cool down. I tried to start it up a bit later and it would not start up. It just stayed on the Starting Windows screen.
I have attempted to get in through safe mode. This works. To an extent. Safe Mode with networking does NOT work.
System Restore does NOT work
Check Disk does NOT work
System Repair does NOT work
bootsect does NOT work
I have resolved myself to the fact that I may need to do a full recovery on it. HOWEVER, I have important files for work and school that I MUST keep. Some of it is backed up, some of it is not. The more recent stuff is what is NOT backed up. That is what I need most.
I have a System Recovery DVD that I ordered from HP a few months back. Now, my question is... Will this allow me to do a NON-DESTRUCTIVE Recovery? I desperately need these files.
Safe mode will not allow me to do a backup to my External Harddrive. It won't even RECOGNIZE or ATTEMPT to recognize my external.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
System Info:
HP Pavilion g6-1a50us Notebook PC
Windows 7 Home Premium 64

Hi,
There is no option for a non-destructive recovery using recovery discs, however you could try either of the options below to see if you can retrieve your data.
1. Mount the HDD in an external caddy, connect this to another PC and see if this will allow you to read the drive.
2. Another possible way to try and retrieve your files from a non-booting drive is to follow the process detailed in the link below. The Ubuntu operating system CD you create can run from the CD alone ( ie it doesn't have to install on the Hard Drive ) and I've often found it to be successful in retrieving data even from a failing Hard Drive. When you've created the CD, follow the instructions and see if you can back up your existing files.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windo...
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U410: Not able to Start Windows 8 when booting

Hello,
When I start my Lenovo U410 the Lenovo sign and the loading circle appears like under normal conditions.
But then, when the sign disappears, nothing is happening.
Windows won't start and I only habe the light up screen with nothing on ist, turning off after several seconds.
Can anyone help me with this Problem?
Regards

as an Addition to what Shiv_k said
You can also try this approach by neokenchi.
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try to Interrupt the loading of Windows 8 to enter push-button reset mode (this is like a recovery environment to restore the pc fromr previous working state). To do this, hold the power button while Windows 8 is loading up (you need to do this twice). If successful, you'll see this screen:
Click on Troubleshoot and from here, you can:
4a. boot into Safe Mode, If everything's ok, try to restart the computer in normal mode and observe
4b. do a System Restore to undo the changes
try to Interrupt the loading of Windows 8 to enter push-button reset mode (this is like a recovery environment to restore the pc fromr previous working state). To do this, hold the power button while Windows 8 is loading up (you need to do this twice). If successful, you'll see this screen:
Click on Troubleshoot and from here, you can:
4a. boot into Safe Mode, If everything's ok, try to restart the computer in normal mode and observe
4b. do a System Restore to undo the changes
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Applying the Win Recovery environment to a UEFI system - How is everyone doing it?

We've run into some trouble setting up Surface 3s with MDT 2013. Apparently there is a bug in the ZTIWinRE.wsf script, which causes it to copy winre.wim to the EFI system partition rather than the Recovery partition.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/22cb4d44-4215-483e-8bdc-b13d9d27725b/what-partition-does-mdt-2012-place-winre-on?forum=mdt#5e33d5d7-5ee4-432f-af65-710f08e99f72
In addition to it being a nuisance, you are unable to enable bitlocker without a properly configured recovery partition.
Which makes me wonder: am I the only person in the world trying to image Surfaces and enable Bitlocker? I can't imagine that that is the case. So how is everyone else doing it?
After discovering that ZTIWinRE wasnt working, I scratched around for a few days and came up with this (below). I set conditions on ZTIWinRE to only run if IsUEFI=False, and this script ZTIWinRE_UEFI.wsf if IsUEFI=True. I had a hard time making any
sense out of the ZTIDiskUtility.vbs functions, so theres probably an easier way to do it.
<job id="ZTIWinRE_UEFI">
<script language="VBScript" src="ZTIUtility.vbs"/>
<script language="VBScript" src="ZTIDiskUtility.vbs"/>
<script language="VBScript">
' // File: ZTIWinRE_MDT_UEFI
' // Purpose: Sets Recovery Environment
' // Usage: cscript ZTIWinRE_UEFI
'// Global constant and variable declarations
'Option Explicit
Dim iRetVal
Dim sArchitecture, colVolumes, objVolume
Dim strREDriveLetter, strSource, strDestFolder, strDestFile
'// End declarations
'// Main routine
iRetVal = ZTIProcess
ProcessResults iRetVal
'On Error Goto 0
'// Function: ZTIProcess()
'// Return: Success - 0
'// Failure - non-zero
'// Purpose: Perform main ZTI processing
Function ZTIProcess()
If UCase(oEnvironment.Item("PrepareWinRE")) <> "YES" then
oLogging.CreateEntry "WinRE is not enabled, Skip.", LogTypeInfo
Main = SUCCESS
Exit Function
End If
oLogging.CreateEntry "---------------- Initialization ----------------", LogTypeInfo
oLogging.CreateEntry "Build = " & oEnvironment.Item("OSCurrentVersion"), LogTypeInfo
If Left(oEnvironment.Item("OSCurrentVersion"),3) < "6.1" then
oLogging.CreateEntry "WinRE is not supported on Vista or Older. Skip.", LogTypeInfo
Main = SUCCESS
Exit Function
End If
sArchitecture= oEnvironment.Item("ImageProcessor")
If sArchitecture = "" then
sArchitecture = oEnvironment.Item("Architecture")
oLogging.CreateEntry "ImageProcessor not set, will boot into Windows PE architecture " & sArchitecture, LogTypeInfo
Else
oLogging.CreateEntry "Will boot into Windows PE architecture " & sArchitecture & " to match OS being deployed.", LogTypeInfo
End If
If UCase(oEnvironment.Item("IsUEFI")) = "TRUE" Then
oLogging.CreateEntry "IsUEFI = TRUE", LogTypeInfo
strREDriveLetter = GetExistingRecoveryDrive
strDestFolder = strREDriveLetter & "\Recovery\WinRE"
oUtility.RunWithConsoleLogging "cmd /c MkDir " & strDestFolder
oUtility.RunWithConsoleLogging "attrib -r -h -s " & strDestFolder & "\*.*"
Else
strDestFolder = "C:\Recovery\WinRE"
End If
strSource = oEnvironment.Item("DeployRoot") & "\Boot\LiteTouchPE_" & sArchitecture & ".wim"
strDestFile = "WinRE.wim"
oLogging.CreateEntry "Installing " & strSource & " on " & sArchitecture, LogTypeInfo
oLogging.CreateEntry "Installing to " & strDestFolder & "\" & strDestFile, LogTypeInfo
If oFSO.FileExists(strDestFolder & "\" & strDestFile) Then
oLogging.CreateEntry strDestFolder & "\" & strDestFile & " already exists", LogTypeInfo
Else
oLogging.CreateEntry "oFSO.CopyFile " & strSource & "," & strDestFolder & "\" & strDestFile & ", True", LogTypeInfo
oFSO.CopyFile strSource , strDestFolder & "\" & strDestFile, True
End If
oUtility.RunWithConsoleLogging "C:\Windows\System32\ReAgentc.exe /disable"
oUtility.RunWithConsoleLogging "C:\Windows\System32\ReAgentc.exe /setreimage /path " & strDestFolder & " /target C:\Windows"
oUtility.RunWithConsoleLogging "C:\Windows\System32\ReAgentc.exe /enable"
Set colVolumes = objWMI.ExecQuery ("Select name, description from Win32_Volume")
For Each objVolume in colVolumes
oLogging.CreateEntry objVolume.Name, objVolume.Description
Next
oLogging.CreateEntry "---------------- End Run ----------------", LogTypeInfo
End Function
Function GetExistingRecoveryDrive
Dim iRetVal, oPartition, sQuery, sDriveLetter
sDriveLetter = ""
sQuery = "SELECT * from Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE DriveType = 3"
For Each oPartition in objWMI.ExecQUery(sQuery)
If InStr (oPartition.VolumeName,"Windows RE") <> 0 Then
sDriveLetter = oPartition.DeviceId
Exit For
End If
Next
oLogging.CreateEntry "assigning value " & sDriveLetter & " to Function GetExistingRecoveryDrive", LogTypeInfo
GetExistingRecoveryDrive = sDriveLetter
End Function
</script>
</job>

Optimal configuration in the fancy picture above is what I setup. On Surface Pro 3's actually :) A few things to note:
1) I could not create the table seen as optimal configuration in MDT. I think this is something that will eventually come to MDT. If all of your units have the same HDD and do not have multiple spec-outs, you can use MDT and create fixed size
partitions, but you can't use the diskpart shrink function to get that recovery image on the end of an OSDISK taking up the rest of the drive.
Instead, I opted to use the diskpart txt file from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825686.aspx . I deployed then to drive variable named OSDISK and made sure that the OS partition was named the same in my diskpart txt file.
IMPORTANT : The section in the diskpart txt -
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
That ID is what allows the Winre Tools partition to talk to the Windows Recovery partition outside of the deployed OS and allows access once authorized through bitlocker.
2) I did not use ztiwinre at all, though I have a decent bit of Powershell knowledge to help me with creation and engagement of the recovery image. Really all that was necessary knowledge to write it in Powershell was the
reagentc commands. You can see those commands being called in ztiwinre. The process for mass deployment is have a named recovery drive that you copy the winre.wim to, a named partition that you copy the recovery image to, then engage
the winre image and set the recovery image path. Reagentc has offline image commands, so it's pretty easy to add it as an OS deployment step during a PE deployment.
So anyways yes it's definitely possible to configure Surface Pro 3's with bitlocker in the first configuration :) It's pretty cool when it's working, it will prompt for bitlocker unlock when in WinRE. Something to consider is that you do need
a local administrator account that will give you authority over any recovery operations (does not need to be named administrator, just needs admin access). When we deployed it, we had to create a new account specifically for it. I tried to toy
with enabling it on WinRE boot and disabling it after but with bitlocker you can't do much in that area. If you have further questions otherwise let me know and I'll try to help on WinRE.

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