BlowFish wrote:
An update: the partition is a hidden partition of type 1C
I have apprehensively unhidden it and it looks like they use Microsofts WinPE edition. This might be workable after all.
Hey Blowfish,
sorry for re-awake this old thread but i'm actually trying to make a hidden recovery-partition with a prepared Win10 installation from a new SSD on my G73.
Did you get it running with your machine already? Got some Tips or maybe a tutorial for me?
I managed to do some things on my own so far:
- i copied the content of the hidden partition to external hdd just to be sure.
- i know how to make a "clean" Installation with Audit-Mode so i can backup it on other Disks
- i got the BCD-Settings saved (sorry, not in english):
Windows-Start-Manager
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Bezeichner {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale de-DE
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {38918afb-8324-11e5-ba4f-f5fa4119726a}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows-Startladeprogramm
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Bezeichner {current}
device partition=C:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 10
locale de-DE
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {81ab78d8-8324-11e5-ba4f-f5fa4119726a}
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \WINDOWS
resumeobject {38918afb-8324-11e5-ba4f-f5fa4119726a}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
(Edit: Also I'm quite a bit confused, as there is no boot-entry to boot from the recovery partition. Since the Volume C is the 'active' Partition the BIOS is searching for a bootmgr here. I dont have any idea, how pressing F9 leads the BIOS to mount and search in the hidden partition...
😞 )
i found out, that Windows is booting without seperate boot-Partition. any idea how to avoid this (e.g. backup boot-Partition as well)?
I plan to use VeraCrypt to decrypt my system-Partition. Backing up encrypted Partitions with veracrypt on the WinPE itself would be a solution but in case i want to recover an unencrypted System i guess a nice and clean installationbackup seems to be nicer...
Also i don't have any clue whether or not veracrypt needs the bootpartition...
Hope you can help me a bit to get it up and running, so i can use my Laptop again eventually!
😉