marcusmx5

When I selected the first option, it just froze. The tablet's make and model are Allview WI10N (a rebranded import from some unknown chinese OEM). In the end I got my hands on another tablet and used a ubuntu usb drive to do a complete image of it's ssd (mmcblk0) using the "dd" command then dumped it on my tablet. It seemed to have worked, my device appears to be ok so far. After taking a look at it's partitions I noticed that the "C" drive is flagged as "Wim Boot". Could it be possible that Microsoft's own recovery tools might not be compatible with Wim Boot?

Thank You for your response, The tablet had Windows 8.1 with Bing and I can't boot into it anymore. I booted the tablet using a regular windows 8.1 installation drive just to check if at least the recovery partition is still there and saw that all partitions are gone. AFAIK, my alternatives right now are either figure out a way to use the recovery drive or somehow extract the product key from the swm images and do a fresh install, assuming I can find a installation image for Win 8.1 with Bing. Is there a way to restore the swm image files on the internal drive?

I've been trying to restore my tablet for some time without luck and decided to ask here, perhaps someone has encountered this problem before... I created a bootable recovery usb drive using the "Recovery Drive" tool from Windows some time ago, but now when I boot from it I can't use it to recover my system. The drive has this structure: - boot - efi - sources - in here there are 3 swm files: install.swm1...swm2...swm3 and these 2 files: $PBR_DiskPart and $PBR_ResetConfig - bootmgr - bootmgr.efi - reagent.xml When I boot from the drive, after selecting language and keyboard layout, I get 3 big buttons: first one allows me to boot to windows, second one to select a drive and the last one to shut down. I select the second one to select a drive and I get: - UEFI 8.07 - that's the usb drive - UEFI: CD/DVD Drive - don't have a DVD drive on the tablet - UEFI: Removable Drive - UEFI: Network Drive. When I select any of these: "UEFI: 8.07" or "UEFI: Removable Drive", the screen dims a little then the tablet restarts. Is there a way to restore my system? If I can get my hand on a standard windows 8.1 installation disk/usb drive can I use it to restore the system from my recovery drive?