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Here you can see the content of my WinRE partition in the root there are 3 files, which could be important, but don´t know, if i can simply copy for example BCD to my System-partition \Boot\Boot.sdi is also there Additional: Boot.wim is located In \sources and about 178 MB Factory.wim is located in \Factory and about 3 GB In \$#repair there are 2 cmd-scripts: SetAutoFailover.cmd $#setWinRE.cmd Content: $#setWinRE.cmd call SetAutoFailover.cmd /target %1 /Wim /Disk %2 /mainos {current} I think to know some parts of the important things of SetAutoFailover.cmd are: ... REM REM Create WinRE boot entry REM %BCDEDIT% -create %WINPE_GUID% -d "Windows Recovery Environment" -application OSLOADER %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% device partition=%DRIVE% %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% path %WINRE_ROOT_DIR%\windows\system32\boot\winload.exe %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% osdevice partition=%DRIVE% %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% systemroot %WINRE_ROOT_DIR%\windows %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% detecthal yes %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% nx optin %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% winpe yes ... REM REM Mark this installation as the recovery OS. This recovery OS identifier REM will be used by other components to enable/disable auto recovery. REM %BCDEDIT% -set %WINPE_GUID% custom:46000010 yes REM REM Set the recovery sequence REM %BCDEDIT% -set %MAINOS% recoverysequence %WINPE_GUID% %BCDEDIT% -set %MAINOS% recoveryenabled yes I Attached the complete script Greetings... Chris SetAutoFailover.cmd

When i was partitioning with xp the full amount on XP, there was another 8MB partition.. Maybe it was unallocated 8MB... but there where always 2 lines. but not 100% sure Actual Problem: Before installing Vista from DVD When i chose "repair computer", the normal recovery-menu (like when booting Vista DVD and choosing "REPAIR COMPUTER") came up, but at the bottom, another option was "Fujitsu Recovery Tool", where i could write the image (i guess *.WIM-image) to the "C: SYSTEM" Partition! After installing Vista from DVD - The Option "REPAIR COMPUTER" isn´t available at the boot-menu any more, in which u get when pressing frequently F8 That would stand for - that the file "\boot\bcd" has to be edit - that the MBR is in factory-state (because u said the mbr has nothing to do with the F8-Options and i didn´t change the MBR manually) -----> that why i wrote, that i think it has done with BCDedit ... but don´t know the syntax even don´t if this is the solution - I want to know, how to restore this option to understand the Vista-boot-process (where did the "REPAIR COMPUTER"-option took his information? From another Partition? The Problem-Laptop of my girlfriend: - "SIEMENS FUJITSU COMPUTERS AMILO PI1505" - Vista is currently running Don´t want to restore Dell´s MBR, before beeing sure its working. Or can u tell me a Windows-based programm to backup and restore currently MBR? But however I would be worried about using Dell´s tool, because would be possible to apply some more changes! ---> REMEMBER: The Vista SP2, I installed from DVD, runs fine! - Nobody changed somethin @ the partitions (That boched FSC!!!) --> thats why I never would by a siemens because of such problems (remember: After recovery no SP working) You´re right, i should spend some time on your posted threads...after i posted my 1st post, i already was on this site: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/ i just read a post in another forum, maybe this would work Backup the RUNNING C: partition to a DVD (JUST FOR ME FOR RESTORING MANUALLY) simply copy the wim-file to "d: data") Boot from the Vista DVD Go to repair my windows Click continue or next Then go to DOS prompt.. At the DOS prompt. type: E: (or whatever your DVD drive shows up as) cd tools imagex /apply d:\blahblah.wim 1 c:\ You will see the prosess start, wait until it finishes.. and the program will return (success) Type: EXIT (to close the DOS window.) Press: repair startup and continue until it finishes The PC will reboot but i don´t like this solution. I want to have the recovery option "REPAIR COMPUTER" at the present installation of Vista SP2, that my girlfriend can recover from the original WinRE partition (in case she isn´t my girlfriend anymore . If i managed this, i will do a complete RAW-Image of the complete HDD. Then i will partition the HDD senceful and not as u said:

I have a relatedproblems and i´m still a sad bunny ^^ I read so much "blah blah FixMBR blah blah FDISK /MBR blah blah". I know these Commands but they just reset the MBR to default. So i decided to write to a dignified forum with professional bunnies, even thou i am not that professional! Problem 1: FSC-Fault!? I have here a fujitsu siemens Laptop with a Recovery-Partition (look the attachments). Testdisk says "Bad relative sector". When i scanned with WinHEX, there was a massage about a sektor at the end, which don´t exist! I think there is a error in the Partition-Table, but don´t know how to fix, because there is a eisa-konfiguration, which is not that clear for me. I think siemens didn´t a good job here, because when two working-partitions "C: System" and "D: Data" were nearly full, the system freezed. I could indentify the file, which freezed the system when i wanted to chance anything at this file (eg. deleting it). BTW it was a MP3-File with 10 MB. I think the system had tried to access to the Sector, which doesn´t exist. So that is the first problem!!! But i don´t want to destroy more. I had evoked one problem yet, thats enough. This Problem will follow as "Problem 2: My Fault" So far the recovery went fine apart from the fact, that it was not passible to install servicepack1 after restoring. As i explored the laptop the first tim about a month ago, there was no SP installed. The problem is an out-of-date-windows-image from the Recovery-Partition (from 2006)! When the ServicePack1-installation was completed, the system still booted, but wasn´t to use, because of RAM-problems. Maybe i should updated it before installing SP1 ... But not sure. Before installing SP1, i removed MSWORX, NORTON I-NET-SEC, ACRBBAT READER AND FSC-Tool for diagnostics. The behavour after that where strange too. So i decidet to Install from a SP2-Integrated DVD. Problem 2: My Fault: Now, the Recovery option "COMPUTER REPARIEREN (repair computer) isn´t available after re-pressing F8 @ boot process. I thought, WINDOWS VISTA wouldn´t overwrite an well-oiled MBR, but it did didn´t it? I should have backuped the MBR! I read something about BCDEDIT, but i don´t have the heart to do anything more, because i had a lot of work (recovering the SYSTEM about 4 times, scanning the HDD about 20 hours, installing programms and so on). Now i have a well-working vista on it, and don´t want to destroy that! ---> Is there an easy whay to add the "Repair Computer"-option to the F8-Menü, which boot´s the WinRE partition? If yes, please Step-by-Step I think it works with BCDEDIT, but how! Additional Information: I grew up with DOS, then came win95, which is based on DOS. There the boot-up is simple (works or don´t works) and the boot menu was in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat But now, with windows Vista, which is preinstalled on this laptop, its a little bit more complex. I am really interessted in understanding the boot-process. the followings things i THINK TO KNOW: - @Windows XP there is alittle partition about 8 MB which is nessecary for booting - @Windows XP NTLDR is the boot-loader. This file is placed at the first sector - The MBR contains the partitiontable, the boot-loader and some unimortant things like signatures and is 512 bytes (the first sector)! - @Vista the BOOTMGR is the boot-loader. This file is placed at the first sector! But Windows says, that it is about 333,xxx bytes The Scan with WinHex didn´t finished. I scanned before I RECOVERED the SYSTEM (The System was really jam-packed with lot of unused trash like AOL, T-ONLINE, OPEN OFFICE besides MS WORKS and MS OFFICE and much more), but after about an or two hours it froze, even though i booted the Windows XPE from CD. I will try it again, now i have a really nice-running windows vista, which is up-to-date. The Hardware is OK. The RAM is testet overnight with zero errors. The FSC_OTS and WINRE partition are untouched. The red-marked file at the bottom in the picture "Fat32 FSC_OTS-Partition Few Files2nd.jpg" is not deleted by me (I guess red-marked means DELETED, not sure). But this red entry was there from the beginning and recovery went well anyway! The first PIC says, that the boot-partition is "C: SYSTEM" the second says "WINRE" marked with the *. Isn´t testdisk compatible with vista? I can remember, that it asked me to search for partitions created by vista, but now, testdisk doesn´t prompt that I will compare the Partition-Table with Winhex´s Part-Table ^^ See you later bunnies