I needed to do a reset using a
USB recovery image on my surface RT since i can't pass the surface logo when powered on
So I downloaded the recovery image for my surface from the surface website,
At the end of the download a message popped up saying that install.wim is corrupt. I downloaded it again and same happened.
I followed the instructions after extracting the zip file onto the usb (which i bought earlier just for this purpose and has 16gb and FAT32 formatted) And the install.wim wasn't copied into it.
When i reached to the troubleshoot option there was only 3 options; refresh. Reset. Advanced options.
When i hit refresh it says: the drive where windows is installed is locked. Unlock and try again.
When i hit reset= unable to reset, a required drive partition is missing.
Please help ASAP I need it to continue my studying
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Hi
I got Surface RT second hand. And I can't reset it.
If I use Setting > General > Remove everything and reinstall windows
It says missing some file
If I use to create recovery driver
The option "Copy the recovery partition from PC to recovery drive" is grey I can't select this option.
and after I pressed next it says "some require files are missing".
When open Disk Management
It found 4 partitions
C:
Recovery (300MB) no letter
EFI Sytem (200MB) no letter
Recovery (3.25 GB) no letter
I can't assign drive letter via Disk Management.
I use diskpart to assign drive letter.
It has 3 file inside
- install.win
- ResetConfig
- CreatePartition-UEFI
How can I use them for recovery? I copy 3 files to flashdrive but can't boot via Surface.
Is Anyone can upload recovery image for me?
I really need to reset my Surface.
Thank you and sorry for my bad english.
Can any one upload recovery usb image with or without install.wim file?
Why don't you ask Surface support? ?? Won't they send you a img?
Surface RT, 32 GB, Win 8.1 RT
I have only 2 weeks of Windows RT experience. I use Windows for over 10 years.
2 weeks ago, I received my surface rt and after setting it up and running, I created a recovery USB drive. Then I proceeded to remove the recovery partition because of my concern of inadequate disk space.. At least that is what I thought I did.
Yesterday, I ran a diskmgmt and it show a recovery partition of 350 MB, and healthy.
Does that 350 MB sound right ?
If yes, do I take it that I have not removed the partition after all ?
I would like to include a screenshot, but the " insert image " button is unresponsive. Is it because I am a newbie ?
Thank you.
Thats ok, there are two recovery partitions, one contains the WindowsRE, which you can not remove. The second one however contains the backup OS image which is considerably bigger. You erased that backup.
Shad0wKn1ght93 said:
Thats ok, there are two recovery partitions, one contains the WindowsRE, which you can not remove. The second one however contains the backup OS image which is considerably bigger. You erased that backup.
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Thank you.
Just to be clear....... if I want to reset the tablet back to factory state, I will have to use the Recovery USB drive, or do I just simply run the Reset option without the Recovery flash drive ?
davidhk129 said:
Thank you.
Just to be clear....... if I want to reset the tablet back to factory state, I will have to use the Recovery USB drive, or do I just simply run the Reset option without the Recovery flash drive ?
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Yes, you will need the USB drive. If you try to reset without it, your surface will prompt you for an installation medium. Oh, and in case you loose your USB drive, you can always download the recovery image from microsoft
Help! SP3 Reset Your PC "Unable to reset PC. A required drive partition is missing."
Hi everyone, I have a Surface Pro 3 and i made a huge mistake today. I was messing around with EasyBCD and NeoGrub trying to get android to dualboot on my surface, besides the point. I went to delete my bad boot entries and accidentally deleted all of my BCD files.
I figured i could reinstall windows 10 and that didn't work because the drive was locked?.
I wiped the drive in CMD prompt and i cant figure out what to do to get my surface to allow me to re install windows.
Where i am:
I have a recovery USB but when i try to Reset my pc i get an error "Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing."
I cant refresh because "the drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again." plus im pretty sure i have reformatted my drive already.
I am good with computers but not great and i dont want to do anymore damage.
Can anyone walk me through the steps needed to remake the partition to get windows to allow me to use the "Reset your PC" option. I do not care about lost data.
howd you fix this?
Hi.
I needed to wipe phone and may have been too successful.
I have access to a twrp menu. I would appreciate any help I could obtain to flash this phone with an Android operating system. I have that image downloaded but I'm having trouble flashing it to the phone. Any help would be great.
(No OS on device.)
Did you wiped data partition also? Does PC recognizes phone?
You can use this method 1 if You dont care about your personal stuff from /data partition, ( you lost twrp also ) http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
or use this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...e-update-rooted-device-to-5-1-lmy47d-t3050789
Data partition is wiped. Phone not recognized by computer. Thx for the links. I got stuck during the process.
Ofcourse
Boot into recovery and choose wipe cache,dalvik and system.Now your good to go!Flash your new rom
siddhu007 said:
Boot into recovery and choose wipe cache,dalvik and system.Now your good to go!Flash your new rom
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I think he already have wiped his phone so there is no need to do it again.
So jst go to "Install" and pick your downloaded ".zip" file.
If you dont have the ".zip" on your device you can try to mount your USB storage.
Thx so much for the tips. I had located the great link provided. Is there anyway that I can move an unzipped hammerhead image to the phone and then unzip on the phone? The stumbling block for me may be that phone has no micro SD slot (to unzip from) and phone is not recognized by computer (running win 7).
For example, with the phone connected with USB to the computer, is there any way to do drag and drop zipped hammerhead file to phone and unzip w twrp.
Thank you for patience with a person new to forum.
I assumed that I could not access a zipped file on computer and use twrp to unzip and proceed. I tried the unzip twrp toggle and could not pull from computer (or at least it was not apparent to me how to do it.)
Dartmouthrocks said:
Thx so much for the tips. I had located the great link provided. Is there anyway that I can move an unzipped hammerhead image to the phone and then unzip on the phone? The stumbling block for me may be that phone has no micro SD slot (to unzip from) and phone is not recognized by computer (running win 7).
For example, with the phone connected with USB to the computer, is there any way to do drag and drop zipped hammerhead file to phone and unzip w twrp.
Thank you for patience with a person new to forum.
I assumed that I could not access a zipped file on computer and use twrp to unzip and proceed. I tried the unzip twrp toggle and could not pull from computer (or at least it was not apparent to me how to do it.)
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OK, if I´m correct, the device is not recognize by the computer, but TWRP is already installed. So what you want is to transfer a zip file with the image to the device. Have you tried OTG? TWRP can mount the USB, so you can download the zip file to a mciro sd and us OTG to flash it with TWRP.
Have you tried different USB cables, different USB ports, and different drivers in order to get the phone recognized on your computer?
Hi everyone, I was trying to return my moto g7+ to stock. I had wiped all partitions except internal, ext sd, and otg. I already had motorola_moto_g7_plus_xt1965-2_lake_retail_br_9.0_ppw29.98-66.zip on my sd card, but when I tried to install it it gave me an error message. I then downloaded it from motostockrom.com to my desktop. Then I copied it to a usb thumb drive and connected it to my phone via an otg cable. When I looked for it in TWRP, it wasn't listed. I removed the thumb drive and deleted everything but the .zip file and it still listed all of the files that I had deleted and not the .zip. I rebooted the phone and when it rebooted, I went into TWRP but my touch screen didn't work so I couldn't do anything. I tried to connect to phone via ADB but it wasn't being recognized. Strange thing, when TWRP starts, I can access the internal storage and the micro SD card folders on my computer. I've read other's posts with the same problems but I haven't seen any solutions. I'm using TWRP 3.5.2 _9-0. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can you enter fone gui? You need to revoke adb keys in dev options in fone in order to regrant them, then reboot back into twrp, and twrp adb should work, but if you can get in fone gui, and load adb, use Vysor, google it, Vysor gives your pc mouse control of your fone in your pc as if you were at the phone screen. Google Vysor.
An awfy long way to say screen dont work lol, Prob solved in 1 word.
If you cant enter gui, get back to me
Pachacouti said:
Can you enter fone gui? You need to revoke adb keys in dev options in fone in order to regrant them, then reboot back into twrp, and twrp adb should work, but if you can get in fone gui, and load adb, use Vysor, google it, Vysor gives your pc mouse control of your fone in your pc as if you were at the phone screen. Google Vysor.
An awfy long way to say screen dont work lol, Prob solved in 1 word.
If you cant enter gui, get back to me
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I came across a post that mentioned using a mouse with the otg cable so I tried that. I was able to access the controls in TWRP. I was still getting the error message "invalid zip file format! Error installing zip file '/external_sd/Motorola_Moto_G7_Plus_XT1965-2_LAKE_RETAIL_BR_9.0_PPW29.98-111_(by_motostockrom.com) (1).zip".
Is there a spelling error, re: (by_motostockrom.com)? I tried to restore to a point that I had saved from 2020 which said that it had completed sucessfully but resulted in a boot loop. I tried to restore to the other save from 2021, but it gave an error "Cannot restore firmware -- mounted read only." In recovery, if I go to file manager, all of the entries are 20+ character alphanumeric, which I had experienced before when I tried to do a restore but my phone was encrypted.