ElitePad 1000 G2 - Recovery Parittion

[Zack262]

Hello! I have an ElitePad 1000 G2 that I got used from eBay and I want to have a recovery partition that I can boot to "just in case". I have been able to find various WinRE.wim files that work, and I have figured out how to make the BIOS "Press F11 for HP Recovery" function correctly... I will post how I did that below. 

Here is my problem:
With the original WinRE.wim file that was there before I re-installed windows, the touchscreen works but when I try to access the Command Prompt from "Advance Options", I get this error: "You need to sign in as an administratory to continue, but there aren't any administrator accounts on this PC."
With the new WinRE.wim file that comes with the new installation of Windows, the touchscreen doesn't work at all.

So, is there a way to make the Windows RE environment recognize the Intel Slate drivers so that the touchscreen functions properly? Thank you for your time!

[Zack262]

To update the Windows Recovery partition and make it accessible by pressing F11 when you boot:

• Get to a command prompt, either by booting from a Windows install USB or from Windows.
• Launch DiskPart
• Select the recovery partition or the partition you wish to make the recovery partition.
  • sel disk 0
  • sel part 3 [or part 4, depending on which partition is "Recovery"]
• Use the command "detail part" to get the details of the partition.
• IF it's not already set this way from the details you see in the previous command, enter the following commands to set this partition as a recovery partition:
  • set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
  • gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
• Give the Recovery Partition a drive letter so you can access the files there:
  • assign letter=r

Now you can access the files. Most of the directories and files on this partition are set to "System" so you won't see them with the command "dir", you have to type "dir /a" or "dir /as". Once you get the WinRE.wim file you want to use copied over, which is normally R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\WinRE.wim, use these commands to enable it:

• reagentc /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE /target C:\Windows
• reagentc /enable

That worked for me. Sometimes I would have difficulty for instance "assign letter=r" in DiskPart would tell me something similar to "that partition doesn't support this function", but it would work after rebooting. The recovery partition needs to be NTFS formatted. It needs to be at least 650mb. And after setting the ID and the GPT Attributes, it doesn't show up in "This PC" in Windows as R: or any other drive letter. And I am able to boot to it from BIOS by selecting the "F11 Recovery" feature.

If the recovery partition continues to show up as driver letter "R:" in "This PC" when you boot windows, open a command prompt as Administrator and type "MOUNTVOL R: /D". This is the "mountvol" command with the option "/D" meaning to dismount or delete.

[Zack262]

I made it work! Here's what I was missing:

• dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:c:\temp\WinRE.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:c:\temp\mount
• dism /Image:C:\temp\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\temp\SlateDrivers /Recurse
• dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\temp\mount /Commit

That gives you a WinRE.wim file with the correct drivers. And, I found out you can find an up-to-date WinRE.wim file at C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\WinRE.wim. So you can copy that file to c:\temp\WinRE.wim and then take it from there...

Also, important to know, you won't need all of the Windows Slate drivers because some of them are very large indeed. I extracted the drivers from the HP driver file sp95320 which is the "Intel Slate IO/Video/Audio/Camera Driver Package", which gives you a folder named "Drivers" that has these subfolders:

• Audio
• Camera
• DPTF
• GFX
• GPIO
• GPIOVirtual
• I2C
• MBI
• PMIC
• SPI
• UART

What you don't need: Audio, Camera & GFX. The GFX folder is the Intel Graphics package and it is the biggest by far! Definitely do not include that one unless you want your WinRE.wim file to be over 500MB.

That took some trial and error, and really just a short internet search. Once you have the right data, it doesn't take long does it? Anyway, here is the information here so you can find it with your own internet search!