I was messing with a few things and can't boot to windows. I've got a system image but no windows re to restore it
Can someone upload winre.wim (it has to be from a 64-bit insider build 11082 btw)
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I'm desperately trying to install "Windows 8 Release Preview x64", but it asks me these files:
spwizimg.dll
spwizres.dll
installprep.exe
Probably they have been downloaded badly. Having to re-download 3.5 gb setup is quite heavy, because I live in an area where the use of the network is rather difficult. If you have installed "Windows 8 Preview Release x64 English", could you pass me those files? They are all in the folder called "Sources", which is in the iso file.
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Since December 2013 I have Lenovo G505s laptop that came with Windows 8 pre-installed. Contacted Lenovo to get a Windows 8.1 upgrade disk. No avail.
So I decided to upgrade the laptop via Windows Store to Windows 8.1. The upgrade took hours. Best: Had no problems with Windows afterwards. All drivers are working. Thank God.
The laptop comes with a recovery drive, but this - by nature - only holds a copy of Windows 8 pre-installed. Not useful when it comes to refresh/restore the laptop - currently Windows 8.1.
Because the recovery drive will include Windows 8 pre-installed, I have need to upgrade to Windows 8.1 again after I refresh or reset my laptop. At least thus is stated by Microsoft here (Step 8)
Anybody can tell me how to refresh the recovery partition? I won't work with USB stick.
MS has no consumer-based solution for what you're asking. For IT and OEMs, there are commandline tools to capture and deploy WIMs (Windows images). To go this route, first use DISM to capture (back-up) your current setup into a WIM file. Next, update the System (ESP) partition, then the WinRE partition with files from Win 8.1 boot disk. Finally, apply the captured WIM into the recovery partition, overwriting the old WIM. Commandline tools to do these are dism, reagentc, et al. All of the needed info are available on Technet. Start at the below link, and branch out as needed:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825072.aspx
The vastly easier (and faster, and more efficient) solution is to forgo the MS solution, and simply use a good image backup solution. I use TrueImage backup, and there are many others. You can back up directly to a USB storage device at any time, obviating the need for a recovery partition. Recovery is just a USB boot key away.
If opting for the latter, aside from reclaiming space from recovery partition (30GB), you can also reclaim space from the now-obsolete "driver" partition (20GB).
Will try the next days what you suggested and report whether could solve my issue succesfullyl. For now, thanks a lot.
i have a problem
i had windows 8.1 64-bit in my pc then after that i installed windows 8 32-bit in different partition after that when i reboot my pc i didn't get the dual boot option to choose between windows 8 and 8.1..my system automatically loads windows 8....
Sounds like you didn't do the installation safely with regard to the old OS. The 64-bit one may have been using a 64-bit bootloader? In any case, you may have clobbered the boot partition of the old installation. You can try using bcdedit to add a boot entry for the old OS - it might still work - but you may need top use 64-bit Win8.1 recovery media instead (and doing so you risk clobbering the boot partition for the 32-bit install).
... Do I dare ask why somebody would *do* this? I mean, I could understand if you were installing Win7 or something, and even vaguely understand why you'd install 32-bit instead of 64-bit (though these days I pretty much exclusively use virtual machines for 32-bit systems) but why in the world install 32-bit Win8 on a 64-bit Win8.1 machine??
I've seen conflicting answers to this, so hopefully someone can help. Can you still do a WIMBoot install of Windows 10 and/or convert an existing installation to WIMBoot? The press releases from MS suggest WIMBoot is no longer needed as Windows 10 will perform a compressed install if it detects that it is being installed on a device without much storage space, but how do you tell if this has happened? I've done a clean install of Windows 10 Home x86 on a 32GB tablet and the install size is just under 10GB, I was under the impression that WIMBoot installations of 8.1 were smaller than this, but is that just because the WIMBoot image is stored on another partition in 8.1? If WIMBoot does still exist would it be likely to reduce that 10GB, or does this new Windows 10 compression work out around the same?
It does not use WIMboot any more. Here's an article written about the install size though. Basically, it's about the same as a clean WIMboot install of 8.1, but far smaller than a WIMboot install that has been fully updated.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...-make-windows-10-an-easy-upgrade-for-old-pcs/
Download windows 10 Insider Build iSO file from Microsoft link here. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewadvanced
Right click on the downloaded ISO file and click on Mount.
A new folder will open, click on setup.exe.
The installation/Update/Upgrade process will start immediately.
If you would like to prepare an installation media for easy installation on another Pc, you can follow the steps here.
You should know that this is a preview build of windows 10 and it is released for insiders in the fast ring. Though you can also install it if you are not an insider, but you will have to stay on insider builds.