 Picture 1: select language, then proceed with Shift-F10 |
| Restoring the system drive using a Windows 8 Setup DVD |
You can use a Windows Setup DVD (windows 7 or younger) to boot your system and restore your system drive.
after booting, in picture 1, select your language, and keyboard layout.
press Shift-F10, and you are on the command prompt ('Dos Box').
navigate to your directory where snapshot.exe is located (best your USB drive where also your images are located), and start snapshot.exe.
If you get an error 'the required subsystem is not available', you have a 64-bit setup environment, and need to use the (64-bit) snapshot64.exe instead of 32-bit snapshot.exe.
if you need networking support, you can start the network stack with
wpeutil initializenetwork
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Picture 1: select language, then proceed with Shift-F10 |
 select language, then [next] |
 choose Troubleshoot |
 now Advanced options |
 System Image Recovery |
 Cancel |
 Next |
 Advanced |
 Now you can add additional drivers. When finished click on Cancel until you see the following dialog. |
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Now you can press SHIFT-F10 to open a command shell. |