shift recovery partition nedeed.bin - Shift General

Hello all.
Few months ago, I use the recovery partition to have more space in my hard disk, and of course delete all the information of the recovery partition.
Now, I have problems with my HTC Shift, and I need to send to the technical service.
Can somebody give me a .bin image of this partition? (Better if it is in Spanish), or any link where I can download it.
Thanks in advance for your help.

manuelbravo said:
Hello all.
Few months ago, I use the recovery partition to have more space in my hard disk, and of course delete all the information of the recovery partition.
Now, I have problems with my HTC Shift, and I need to send to the technical service.
Can somebody give me a .bin image of this partition? (Better if it is in Spanish), or any link where I can download it.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Search is your friend. Check this link, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405220&highlight=recovery+partition
--Ram--

Related

I need Recovery Partition

How to Access HPA
How to access HPA Partiton and extract all driver
Hello all.
I need Recovery Partition on English.
I talk with Pof he say that me must English Recovery partiton.
Please Send to my.
Thanks in advance!!!
I have sent the copy of my HPA partition to danielherrero which was hagving the same problem as you, and he could recover his vista with it, the problem is that my recovery partition installs a Spanish language Vista, which will not be good for you (as you might not understand spanish), so if someone could dump an HPA in english, this would be useful to people who lost it.
Instructions to dump and restore the recovery partition are on my blog:
http://pof.eslack.org/blog/2008/04/...re-the-vista-recovery-partition-on-htc-shift/
I can if acess to FTP/HTTP server for upload a Image and all software for HTC Shift and access for all people needet
pof said:
I have sent the copy of my HPA partition to danielherrero which was hagving the same problem as you, and he could recover his vista with it, the problem is that my recovery partition installs a Spanish language Vista, which will not be good for you (as you might not understand spanish), so if someone could dump an HPA in english, this would be useful to people who lost it.
Instructions to dump and restore the recovery partition are on my blog:
http://pof.eslack.org/blog/2008/04/...re-the-vista-recovery-partition-on-htc-shift/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hello
i dont mind doing that on my english shift..ive had quick look at the page discribing how to do it but being a bit of a thicko it would great if you could send step by step destructions for me..i have the capability of loading it onto external drive where i could give you access to upload..please advise me if you wish
pof said:
I have sent the copy of my HPA partition to danielherrero which was hagving the same problem as you, and he could recover his vista with it, the problem is that my recovery partition installs a Spanish language Vista, which will not be good for you (as you might not understand spanish), so if someone could dump an HPA in english, this would be useful to people who lost it.
Instructions to dump and restore the recovery partition are on my blog:
http://pof.eslack.org/blog/2008/04/...re-the-vista-recovery-partition-on-htc-shift/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, It saved my shift from SAT and several weeks out of home. Thanks again Pau
pd: Remove SD when dumping/restoring....
It takes 4 hours to dump or restore.
Pau....Maybe when I copied your fist MB did the trick?
plasticplanet said:
hello
i dont mind doing that on my english shift..ive had quick look at the page discribing how to do it but being a bit of a thicko it would great if you could send step by step destructions for me..i have the capability of loading it onto external drive where i could give you access to upload..please advise me if you wish
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Basically you need:
~1Gb USB stick
~3,5 Gb of free space on your Vista partition
1) Install Slax on the USB pendrive, follow instructions here:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/09/20/all-in-one-usb-slaxzip/
2) Reboot your Shift
3) Press Fn+F10 to choose the boot device, select USB pen drive
4) Slax boot menu will appear, choose the first option (KDE)
5) Open a Konsole (Terminal program), right next to the "K" menu in the menu bar.
6) Type the following command:
Code:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hda1/shift-vista-recovery.bin bs=1 skip=36773560320
7) This will last about 4 hours, keep your Shift on charger and wait until it finishes. When it finishes you'll see something similar to this:
Code:
3226976256+0 records in
3226976256+0 records out
3226976256 bytes (3.2 GB) copied, 11938 s, 270 kB/s
8) Now reboot into Vista again, the backup of the HPA holding the vista recovery will be in c:\shift-vista-recovery.bin
9) Zip or Rar the 'shift-vista-recovery.bin' file and upload it somewhere, keep in mind this is a big file so you might want to split it in several volumes before uploading it.
10) There is no 10
That's all, feel free to ask if some point is not clear enough.
On Privet messegi send to Pof and plasticplanet FTP access for upload a HPA Partition on English or ES.
pof said:
6) Type the following command:
Code:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hda1/shift-vista-recovery.bin bs=1 skip=36773560320
7) This will last about 4 hours
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
not really 4 hours, for me that only did 98MB in 4 hours, and I had to use /mnt/hda1 anyway.
so tell me why is bs set to 1?
is bs=16384 fine? because that's how i did it in the end.
any way to verify the contents?
P.S: oh yes and my shift is hardspl'ed man!!
Probably I am in wrong but that command is dumping the last 3GiB of hda disk to the first partition of the same partition. Wouldnt be safer to dump to the sd or a usb pen?
no, the source is /dev so the hw device, like the whole hdd on windows
and the dest is /mnt/hda1 so the partition like C: on windows
the HPA "partition" is not part of the visible partition. no risk....
and the proper and FAST command is (if you are using the slack usb distro that pof linked to in his description) :
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hda1/shift-vista-recovery.bin bs=16384 skip=2244480
I assume similar method works for copying it back (the point is bs=16384).
if you want to be sure your shift has a partition of the exact same size, then read dmesg until you find the HPA (host protected area) information, should say what it said for pof and for me:
sda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 71826615 sectors (36775 MB)
native capacity is 78126048 sectors (40000 MB)
sda: Host Protected Area disabled.
sda: 78126048 sectors (40000 MB), CHS=16383/255/63
(ignore the "sda" part of course)
someone downloaded the backup I uploaded and confirmed it works.
cmonex said:
so tell me why is bs set to 1?
is bs=16384 fine? because that's how i did it in the end.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
"bs" was set to 1 because I was too lazy to do the maths
Yes, you can increase it as long as you change the "skip" part too.
I have a problem.
I have two shift devices, one got screwed trying to install ubuntu MID and the other one is fine
I've tried your method with dd to the to copy the recovery partition from the working shift however it always fails during the fn f3(same failure that I got even before restored the image). IT starts the restore but fails somewhere along the line at 2%.
I noticed my hpa is at a slightly different location to yours using dmesg. Probably because it has office in it. How do I calculate the seek/skip
Also I tried doing a dd from higher on the drive just to see if I can atleast pick it up as excess got the same error.
Any help guys
btw good work on everything else you all have done
ok i got it..you guys were slightly off in your calculations so i wasn't sure that the address you got was by 512. Anyhow I have the .bin dump for anyone who needs it for the vista with office demo or those who partition size is different to that of the above postings. I also took it a little higher just to ensure i don't miss any of the partition
BTW posting from the previously bricked shift
Could you please stick this thread.
pof
Could you please stick this thread too. It has a lot of useful information.
Thanks
Ram
Hi there
if someone have a german Recovery partition Image for me, please let me know
My new HTC Shift has a Recovery Partiton but don´t boot with this. Don´t know why.
Maybe a recover of this partition may be work
But only for testing, i have made (before starting the Shift first time) a complete Acronis Image
I have a somewhat related question. I've basically busted my Vista recovery partition, long story short, I decided to try out ubuntu mid and didn't realize it was going to wipe my whole hdd (installed on my other laptops the regular images of ubuntu hardy and it asked me to specify partitions etc., but the mid didn't and I was half awake or vice versa).
I have now installed XP, and even though ubuntu mid appears to have wiped the HPA, it is still hidden from windows. I don't plan on going back to Vista (if I have to, I will just throw the thing out, xp just gave it a new lease on life). Is there a safe and easy way to unhide the hidden partition and use it, without having to install linux and without affecting my XP install (took too long to get it running and I'd rather give up the 3GB than have a go at it again, at least not until I really have to)?
I suppose I managed to unhide it, whiped it out and put it together with the rest of my HDD. Though now I used about 3GB with Acronis and created my own hidden/protected partition with XP completely set-up and some essential software. Worked like a charm.
Restore recovery partition
What is the correct command for restoring the rescovery partition bin file?
I used "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hda1/shift-vista-recovery.bin bs=16384 skip=2244480" to create the dump file.
I need you.
Hello.
I had installed ubuntu 8.04 and it run good, but the resolution was horrible.
With vista, the virtual resolution permits work without external panel, for not very long time, of course.
I don't now what i do wrong, and now i can't recovery the Vista by the recovery partition. I have installd a Vista Bussiness from a copy and with the activation key from my htc shift and it works good.
I wouid like recovery the recovery partition of my htc.
know you where i could get the "shift-vista-recovery.bin" image from?
thanks. and "help" me please

Recovery Image needed

Of course, as old veteran, I had to play with my shift. And playing for me means, get deep into that thing.
So I unhid the recovery partition and backed it up. I created a recovery DVD and tested it.
After, I enabled the full capacity of the HDD and ran the recovery. Everything went fine and Vista was back up.
I then formatted the beast again and installed ubuntu...again, no problem.
But then, to my shock, I couldnt run the recovery DVD anymore. Maybe carelessly, I dropped something on its surface and now it gives me a read error and breaks off the recovery. I used ImageX.exe to verify the Xvista.wim, but it confirmed that the wim was not
valid.
Too bad, but now I dont have a recovery possiblity.
I hope someone can help me. I am able to provide my 100mbit ftp for up and downloads.
Recovery
I am also looking for an English recovery image.
I found a nice tool which can mount *.WIM files as a standard drive or folder. With this tool its easy to modify the XVISTA.WIM and the BOOT.WIM.
All I need now is a working recovery partition.
I want to slipstream a Vlite version of Vista and see if i can get it all working.
HTC Service is a nightmare
I install the vista manager, trying to speed up the boot time, but it crash the vista.. , when i try to use F3 to recover, it show blue screen in the middle.
since no recover disc provide, so i try to install xp instead. But i found some function key not work on Shift. so i decide send back to HTC for fixing it, it just a a days only new computer. but HTC want to charge me HK$7XXX ( US$1000 ) . They said i void the warranty term because of installing XP. What i think is the hidden partition ( recovery ) has problem....
I am very disappoint with them, and i will tell everyone about their bad treatment to customer.
By the way, can someone help me to get the ORIGINAL image of the hdd. ??
i already uploaded my (english) recovery image to someone's ftp server.
it took me several days because my upload is less than 40kbyte/s.
so I don't feel re-uploading elsewhere, but:
the image is still on the ftp.
I'll ask if he can give access to you guys.
cmonex said:
i already uploaded my (english) recovery image to someone's ftp server.
it took me several days because my upload is less than 40kbyte/s.
so I don't feel re-uploading elsewhere, but:
the image is still on the ftp.
I'll ask if he can give access to you guys.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That would be great...I can move it to my server and make it public to everyone here...
I already got the Japanese recovery dump there (Thanks very much to TokyoRob...cheers mate)
i can share my ftp
yes.. i can share my share open to public to if needed...
If an FTP would be available I would be glad to share my italian recovery image.
Italian image
kisslorand said:
If an FTP would be available I would be glad to share my italian recovery image.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I need italian recovery image I hope it's possible!!! Thanks
Problem solve , and HTC CARE ( HK ) really bad
Finally I solve the problem, maybe it can help some other user.
1. Format your HDD with Low level ( don't use quick format ) .
2. reboot and press Shift F3....
3. All the blue screen and error won't appear again.
I am happy with it, but i spend more than 2 days to solve the problem.
But I am very disappoint with Hong Kong HTC, they want to charge me for us$1000 to fix the problem, and claim that i damage the hardware, and need to replace the motherboard... I just brought if for few day and under warranty.
They are really cheating customer. I hope their management guy to contact me by [email protected] , and APOLOGIZE for their BIG mistake.
I will post to all FORUM , newsgroup and let the user know how they treat the customer.
First Recovery Image up
The first image file is up and can be grabbed from here.
https://phatpipez.homeftp.org/HTCShift/
Thanks to TokyoRob, who kindly sent me the image file.
Its a 3GB bin file, dumped by using Pof's guide, which can be
found here
http://pof.eslack.org/blog/2008/04/...re-the-vista-recovery-partition-on-htc-shift/
***I believe the language is Japanese,*** ITS IN ENGLISH!!!!! but I already created a patch to change a fresh installation to any desired language.
More about this later.
I would appreciate it, if someone could send me another recovery image
and also the /Program Files/HTC folder.
unfortunately the guy who has the ftp hasn't replied to me yet and I don't want to give out the login info without permission.
in the worst case, if you can guarantee the image will indeed be public for a long while, then I can take the pain to upload it again to whatever server you give me a login to.
still no reply from this guy I mentioned; but someone else also has the english recovery partition (in 7z, yuck!) on a server, this is not public, but I asked him to PM you all. please do not give out the login info he gives to you.
cmonex said:
still no reply from this guy I mentioned; but someone else also has the english recovery partition (in 7z, yuck!) on a server, this is not public, but I asked him to PM you all. please do not give out the login info he gives to you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you want me to change 7z?
You dont like it?
I also changed my FTP to public...more info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405220
.finger licking good...there is all you need to restore your shift.
You can even change the language.
If people need instructions, I will post them later.
Corrupt file
When decompressing Shift_Recovery_Partition_Content.7z with both 7Z or WinRar, the WIM file shows as being corrupted. Would you please repack / verify? Thanks!
jposluns said:
When decompressing Shift_Recovery_Partition_Content.7z with both 7Z or WinRar, the WIM file shows as being corrupted. Would you please repack / verify? Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for telling. Will do in a couple of hours.
Please post all related issues / questions in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405220
Since the topic of this thread is "Recovery Image needed", we could close this thread now.
It is no longer valid.

[Problems & Questions] With Official 2.3 Update V2

Hello !
I am feeling really down today after been trying to get my phone working again.
There is a huge problem currently, I am really annoyed that it doesn't work at all.
First thing, my phone won't start after update it just boot loops and never seem to end it.
First thing I noticed /boot, /cache /system and most things are gone, I can load up recovery but nothing more. I have no idea what happened but the whole image folder was wiped and I had to myself put in the CWM recovery.
I can't do an upgrade "again" as it will be stuck @ the unpacking part without starting it at all.
I been trying with 2.3 V2 and with B133(My stock rom I got).
If anyone has a solution that can solve this problem please help out if you could. Also if you are about to tell me get this and that, please most cases I haven't seen any of the Firmware roms in @modaco wiki links work. Means I can't download them, so if you happen to have spare copy please upload it and link it to me. I have been googling and looking through this section twice, nothing really worked out.
Thanks in advance !
If you didn't erase the .cust_backup partition which contain the image folder with all system' s .img files, then maybe it' s damaged. I had some problems with this partition before and when I checked it with windows check disk it repairs it and I had no problems from then. So, try this, and if you still haven' t any file on image folder, you can find the original folder on X5' s forums. Is definately here, but I don't remember where is the link and I don't gonna search it for you. If you cannot find it, you can allways reflash the original rom. If you fix the partition(if this is the problem), I don't think that you'll have problems with update any more.
dancer_69 said:
If you didn't erase the .cust_backup partition which contain the image folder with all system' s .img files, then maybe it' s damaged. I had some problems with this partition before and when I checked it with windows check disk it repairs it and I had no problems from then. So, try this, and if you still haven' t any file on image folder, you can find the original folder on X5' s forums. Is definately here, but I don't remember where is the link and I don't gonna search it for you. If you cannot find it, you can allways reflash the original rom. If you fix the partition(if this is the problem), I don't think that you'll have problems with update any more.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hello, thanks for the reply.
I have no idea about this .cust_backup partition and how I am supposedly to access it via windows. Also the thing you said about fixing partition within Windows, the check disk thing. I am not sure about that part either as I can load CWM and it can read the partitions but they are empty. Also there is nothing in this forums that contains original things, only way for me to fix this if someone have extra copy and can guide me on how and where to place the all needed files. I am pretty sure it's only things that are missing and I can't get a grip out of this.
So to sum up what my problem is.
I did an upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 with official firmware, it worked out normally but after a reboot my phone became stuck in an endless loop, I can't do anything and it will not I repeat it will not allow me to "re flash" any firmware I tried so far, the 2.3 V2 and B133.
I am begging someone in this forum section, please if you have the knowledge about this problem care to help?
I can't get a refund out the phone warrenty is off and I do not have that much spare money.
Thanks in advance !
If you can get to recovery, wipe cache and data. It should be possible in stock recovery.
The cust partition has all the images for bootloader, recovery etc. You can get to it with the pink screen. Reformatting and then reinserting the images and files could help, but try that when nothing else works.
I can't give you good help via phone, but try wiping data first. Also, try if you can use some other sd card.
Sent from my U8800 using Tapatalk
Blefish said:
If you can get to recovery, wipe cache and data. It should be possible in stock recovery.
The cust partition has all the images for bootloader, recovery etc. You can get to it with the pink screen. Reformatting and then reinserting the images and files could help, but try that when nothing else works.
I can't give you good help via phone, but try wiping data first. Also, try if you can use some other sd card.
Sent from my U8800 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The most common things I have already done, but do enlighten me what this "custom" parition is. Because in windows I do not see such partition I see a removable partition which I have now added a folder called image with these containing files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370960
EDIT ** Also regarding to first person who said about Windows partition manager. The thing is I see a lot of partitions and there is no labeling for them, might be because they are ext2/3 or even something else? In anycase I can't do so much I just find it really odd I have many duplicates and I am guessing that must be errors... Because I am seeing the main recovery partition which has no label too... its at 240 MB where 135MB is used. Lastly there is my internal SD card empty and healthy still I can't reach it within Windows if I do not mount it...And can't now without going into the android OS. I Have loads of free space "partitions I don't understand why they are there".
**
Thanks for helping out, it feels not good to have a half dead phone, it's still not solved :'-(
The .cust_backup is the mount point on android for this removable partition with image folder. In windows haven' t this name. I didn't mean to use the windows partition manager, just to use windows explorer, right click on the partition and choose properties, then tools and then check disk. Of course you can use partition manager too, but because as you found there are all no labeled other partitions there and is a bit confused.
As you mentioned, you found the original image folder and you replaced the files. Did you tried to do the update again after that?
Also you can see and the internal sd partiton, but you need linux system. This partition is not fat32, so windows cannot see it.
dancer_69 said:
The .cust_backup is the mount point on android for this removable partition with image folder. In windows haven' t this name. I didn't mean to use the windows partition manager, just to use windows explorer, right click on the partition and choose properties, then tools and then check disk. Of course you can use partition manager too, but because as you found there are all no labeled other partitions there and is a bit confused.
As you mentioned, you found the original image folder and you replaced the files. Did you tried to do the update again after that?
Also you can see and the internal sd partiton, but you need linux system. This partition is not fat32, so windows cannot see it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have placed all things that I got from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370960
And I can't run the upgrade firmware, it gets stuck at first stage which is to unpack the the update.app thing.
It just stays like that not blinking and frozen.
Did you tried now that you have the original files, to go to recovery mode and wipe data etc?
Also when you try to do the upgrade do you have the device connected with the cable?
I had this problem once and I think that when I disconnected the cable(or maybe wasn' t connected and I connected it, I don't remember well), the proccess bar starts to moving after a while and the upgrade completed successfully.
dancer_69 said:
Did you tried now that you have the original files, to go to recovery mode and wipe data etc?
Also when you try to do the upgrade do you have the device connected with the cable?
I had this problem once and I think that when I disconnected the cable(or maybe wasn' t connected and I connected it, I don't remember well), the proccess bar starts to moving after a while and the upgrade completed successfully.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You are not understanding me :-(, I have wiped already millions of times in millions of different ways just to get it work. And no, I don't have the device connrected when I upgrade, it won't work properly then, I have tried to wait for the progress bar to "start" move it won't happen the battery will die, and nothing happened.
I can't go in with normal Recovery mode, can only go in with CWM, the normal recovery mode is really small, I mean only 3mb, while the froyo version is 5mb. Now I am asking if you have the time to upload the image files from 2.3 V2, the ones in forums are for V1. Which I don't know might conflict.
Thanks again for trying to help me out, this is really frustrating to get it to work.
**EDIT**
I worked it out !
I think I understood what you meant, I did as you told I started first with pluggin in the charger forced it to upgrade and now it's upgrading, thank you so much dancer_69. I was going to go tomorrow to buy a new 2nd hand smartphone. But now I can save my money for other things !
**EDIT of EDIT **
I seem to have downgraded to B133, I will try now with B158 2.3 V2 again and hopefully it will work now.
Yes, wasn't clear because I don' t remember what I've done and solve it. But I think that I did it like you discribed too.
Anyway I'm glad that was helpful(kind of)..
And don' t give up so soon with smartphone' s bricks, I've faced brick kind of problems many times and if the device it' s not completely dead, there is something you can do. Maybe need more search or many tries(sometimes the same things) but at the end(and of course If there isn't a hardware problem) device can unbrick.

[REQUEST] English Recovery Parition

Hi, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could upload the recovery parition (preferably English) to somewhere and provide a link; I bought my shift second hand and had Windows Developer Preview with no Recovery Partiton and I would be very thankful if someone could upload it.
Not Duplicate
AdinK said:
Hi, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could upload the recovery parition (preferably English) to somewhere and provide a link; I bought my shift second hand and had Windows Developer Preview with no Recovery Partiton and I would be very thankful if someone could upload it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Every previous post contains links that are broken or simply dumping and restoring insturctions so this is not duplicate.
I have an English Vista recovery on my Shift, but I don't know how I could copy it off, you could give me some information about it, I will take a look at it anyways tomorrow or so. If you could profide usefull information I could do it faster.
And.. Why do you want to recover the whole windows? I have done it once and I removed it directly and installed windows 7 on it. Its way faster, Everything works. And just a bit snappier and populair then Vista(alot of people were amazed by my shift, but when I said Vista was on, they were not amused xD).
Armazia said:
I have an English Vista recovery on my Shift, but I don't know how I could copy it off, you could give me some information about it, I will take a look at it anyways tomorrow or so. If you could profide usefull information I could do it faster.
And.. Why do you want to recover the whole windows? I have done it once and I removed it directly and installed windows 7 on it. Its way faster, Everything works. And just a bit snappier and populair then Vista(alot of people were amazed by my shift, but when I said Vista was on, they were not amused xD).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, look at this link http://pof.eslack.org/2008/04/22/how-to-dump-and-restore-the-vista-recovery-partition-on-htc-shift/ and as for why I want to well I want to examine the default vista for some drivers, software, blocks, etc and I also want to modify it i.e. make it a Windows 7 Recovery Parition and I dont plan to recover over whole thing if any modify WAIK or OPK config to install different parition without erasing.
Thanks in advance by the way.
AdinK said:
Thanks, look at this link http://pof.eslack.org/2008/04/22/how-to-dump-and-restore-the-vista-recovery-partition-on-htc-shift/ and as for why I want to well I want to examine the default vista for some drivers, software, blocks, etc and I also want to modify it i.e. make it a Windows 7 Recovery Parition and I dont plan to recover over whole thing if any modify WAIK or OPK config to install different parition without erasing.
Thanks in advance by the way.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Seems pretty hard for me, Since i'm not a linux guy, I will check it out later today since i'm still at school.
Thanks
Ok, thanks.
AdinK said:
Ok, thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I found out how I can dump the recovery, but there is not really a possibility for me to store the whole recovery, maybe I could split it and upload it to mediafire.
I have tried to follow the instructions, which was actually very simple, but when I enter the cmd line, press enter it doesn't return a reply or something with writing or anything, it just enters and the white dot stays there, I don't know if this is normal =/
This Part
This part? "dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/disk/shift-vista-recovery.bin bs=16384 skip=2244480" if so leave it for about 45 minutes if it hasn't finished by then and returned to prompt then somethings wrong :/ but check if the file is there.
Oh and make sure you're copying the correct parition.

Vista Recovery Partition

Mornin' I accidentally deleted my recovery partition, would anyone be able to upload one for me?
ucenna said:
Mornin' I accidentally deleted my recovery partition, would anyone be able to upload one for me?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I fear we are the last few who actually still use these. I have looked highand low and cannot find the original recovery partition anymore. Used to be posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405220&highlight=recovery+partition but now the links (5 years later) are dead,
Hope we find this. It's been a while and I'd like to get this thing back to factor defaults,
re
vertigo1 said:
I fear we are the last few who actually still use these. I have looked highand low and cannot find the original recovery partition anymore. Used to be posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405220&highlight=recovery+partition but now the links (5 years later) are dead,
Hope we find this. It's been a while and I'd like to get this thing back to factor defaults,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the UK OEM VISTA recovery partition
but its in acronis image format, ive tested by restoring the image on a USB drive which you can select on the bios,
its about 3-4 gb
if anyone wants it, send me ftp details ill glady spend afew hours upping it providing you share on the forums also
packkman said:
I have the UK OEM VISTA recovery partition
but its in acronis image format, ive tested by restoring the image on a USB drive which you can select on the bios,
its about 3-4 gb
if anyone wants it, send me ftp details ill glady spend afew hours upping it providing you share on the forums also
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi packkman, Are you still willing to help us with that image? if so I will put an ftp service to receive it and after that will break it into 5 pieces to put it available for everyone.
Thaks very very much in advance, your are my only hope before dying on the HTC repair centre.
Email sent to Pakkman just in case he is not subscribed to this thread.

Categories

Resources