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Reconstructing Latitude E6410 recovery partitions
When I start "Dell Backup and Recovery Manager" in Win7x64 I get an error message that Windows-Recovcery is not installed and it's required for Dell Backup and Recovery Manager.
I got this error the first time after I tried to install Win7x64 from the DVD included with my Latitude E6410. The recovery-partition was gone after the installation. Thank god I had a backup of the file factory.wim (= factory image) and also a bootable USB-stick which I had created with backup and recovery manager before. So tried to reconstruct the two Dell recovery partitions and created them with Acronis Disc Director. I was able to recover Windows7 from the bootable USB-stick. But I'm not able to reconstruct the recovery partitions for "Dell Backup and Recovery Manager".
Now I have the following volumes:
1: S: 750MB SYSTEM (Boot and WinRE), NTFS ID=DE, active
2: R: 10GB RECOVERY (Dell Factory-Image), NTFS ID=27
3: C: 120GB OS (Win7x64), NTFS ID=7
4: D: 334GB DATA (files I create), NTFS ID=7
The boot.wim-file from the USB-stick, I copied to S:\recovery\windowsre\winre.wim
The factory.wim file, I copied to R:\Dell\Image\Factory.wim. In this directory there's also the catalog.ini.
The ResSys.ini is in R:\ResSys.ini.
My BCD-file from S:\boot\bcd (where bcd is the file, not a directory) contains the following lines:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
description Windows Boot Manager
locale de-DE
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {aaf6f214-1228-11e0-83ea-b8a9be702cbb}
resumeobject {aaf6f213-1228-11e0-83ea-b8a9be702cbb}
displayorder {aaf6f214-1228-11e0-83ea-b8a9be702cbb}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {aaf6f214-1228-11e0-83ea-b8a9be702cbb}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale de-DE
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {5f0663a9-f7ea-11df-901f-5c260a2027cb}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {aaf6f213-1228-11e0-83ea-b8a9be702cbb}
nx OptIn
When I boot my system and press F8, I choose Windows Repair Mode, Windows boots normaly. No repair window appears.
The only way to get to the repair screen after booting is my USB-stick.
Does anybody know what's wrong here?
Tom Green
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December 28th, 2010 19:00
My mistake, type 27 doesn't make the partition hidden. Type 17 does.
Forget about my remarks on that part.
Tom
Tom Green
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December 28th, 2010 19:00
Hello Onkelhim
The 1: S: ID=DE doesn't look correct. DE is usually OEM by dell for the Diagnostics. DE will
make this partition hidden, maybe not bad but Windows RE must be one of the following types:
MBR disks - type 0x7 or type 0x27, If type 0x27, it must be at the beginning of the disk.
The 2: R: ID=27 This makes the Recovery hidden to the system and it can't see the factory.wim
file. Type 27 should be at beginning of the drive.
All of this might not fix your problems, but it's a starting place.
Hope this helps and good luck.
Tom
OnkelHim
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December 29th, 2010 01:00
Thank you, Tom,
I changed the type of partition 1 and 2 to 07 again. This type I already had, when I copied the files on these drives. Now I can see them in Windows Explorer again.
So I tried pressing F8 during boot. The menu appeared and I selected repair mode, but Windows booted normally from partition 3 (C:).
In Windows I started "Dell Backup and Recovery Manager". The error message that WinRe is not installed appeared again.
I'm not really sure, but I remember partition 1 was type DE in factory default.
On some websites I read about Reagentc.exe. Do I have to use it to get the BCD connected to my Windows Installation again?
I don't know what the bootmanager does with entries like identifier, inherit etc. Do I have to make any changes here?
identifier {aaf6f214-1228-11e0-83ea-b8a9be702cbb}
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {5f0663a9-f7ea-11df-901f-5c260a2027cb}
resumeobject {aaf6f213-1228-11e0-83ea-b8a9be702cbb}
Thanks Matthias
Tom Green
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December 29th, 2010 05:00
Matthias
The Reagentc.exe file is used to set the path of WinRE or OS.
Make sure your drives have correct letter assigned.
R: for system
C: for OS
D: for recovery
usually how it's setup.
Just went back to your first post, you have S: for system and R: recovery which is OK.
Run Reagentc.exe as
{c:\windows\system32\reagentc.exe /setreimage /path S:\recovery\windowsre /target c:\windows}
no brackets, make sure the windowsre is in a directory called recovery on S:\ drive.
this should set the path to the winre.wim.
Again run reagentc.exe to set the path to the image file as
{c:\windows\system32\reagentc.exe /setosimage /path R:\dell\image /target c:\windows}
no brackets.
Hope this helps
Tom
OnkelHim
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December 29th, 2010 08:00
Hi Tom,
I tried as you described. In the first step I still get an error message.
The winre.wim file is placed in S:\recovery\windowsre
When I start reagentc with this command
c:\windows\system32\reagentc.exe /setreimage /path S:\recovery\windowsre /target c:\windows
I get the following error:
failed process: b7
The file can not be created if it already exists.
It doesn't say which file already exists. Do you know where the information is stored?
Setting the path to the factory.wim was completed without any problems:
Directory set to: \\?GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition2\dell\image
REAGENT.EXE Operation completed successfully
Matthias
Tom Green
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December 29th, 2010 15:00
Matthias
Question do you have winRE.wim in that directory, or is the image already mounted?
You might try moving it to S:\recovery and see what happens.
Also might require a boot to set the path before it will work.
Just keep trying.
Tom
OnkelHim
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December 30th, 2010 11:00
Tom,
the winre.wim is already in the directory.
Now tried the following an was sucessful :)
reagentc.exe /disable
reagentc.exe /setreimage /path S:\recovery\windowsre /target c:\windows
reagentc.exe /enable
Now the Dell Backup an Recover Manager starts without any errors and with F8 at boot I can get to repair mode.
Many thanks for you help.
Matthias
Tom Green
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December 30th, 2010 15:00
Hello Matthias
Glad you made it worked and thanks for letting us know what you did that worked.
Now I learned something new.
Good luck and Happy New Year.
Tom
Nenda
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June 6th, 2011 00:00
Hello Mathias,
I know this is an old thread, but this is the most related info that I can use in regard to my problem.
I've the same problem as you had, and follow steps you were follow here, and still get the problem with
setting path of winre to recovery\windowsre\
DBRM still giving the same error
Reagentc /disable error
Operation Failed: 2
The system cannot find the file specified
Reagentc /setreimage /path S:\recovery\windowsre /target c:\windows
failed process: b7
The file can not be created if it already exists.
Reagentc /enable
Operation successful
Reagentc /info
Windows RE enable : 1
Windows RE staged : 0
Setup enabled : 1
WinRE.WIM directory : \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\recovery\windowsre
Recovery Environment : \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\recovery\windowsre
BCD ID : 3fa5486f-4324-11e0-9225-f04da2b958fb
Setup Files : \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\dell\image
Recovery Operation : 4
Operation Parameter :
Boot Key Scan Code 0x0
It looks the path already correctly setup, but "Repair Your Computer" on F8 still start windows OS and not to recovery options (WinRE boot ?), DBRM also still cannot function.
Another things is, I use winre.wim from DVD boot and not from USB Flashdisk as you had
and if I look at ResSys.ini file, it contains :
[Backups]
1=Recovery - 20110520154658
[Recovery - 20110520154658]
MediaType=DVD
Filename=Factory.swm
DvdNumber=2
DTG=20110520154658
Location=C:\Dell\Image
ImageIndex=1
Date=20/05/2011
Time=15:51
Does it have some info that need to be changed in regard to the problem?
Can I have the info of your ResSys.ini file and Reagenc /info result?
Thank's
Nenda
javedakhterak
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January 19th, 2018 23:00
Hi,
I now this is old thread but I need factory.wim or recovery disk iso for my Latitude E6410 laptop. My laptop hard drive damaged and I have to change it with new one.
please help me getting original os reinstalled.
Thanks and regards,