Direct operating system recovery

This is a procedure to recover an operating system from a backup server over the network on a damaged machine

1. Boot the machine from an FBS Recovery disk

Fig. 1 Machine booted from an FBS Recovery disk, in recovery mode

2. Create the system partition

1. To create a primary partition - create partition primary
2. To format a partition - format
3. To set a partition as active - active
4. To assign temporary drive letter - assign letter=R

3. Operating system recovery

4. (Optional) Updating the boot record after hardware upgrade

Fixboot

bcdboot C:\windows /s C:
bcdedit /set {default} device partition=c:
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=c:
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device partition=c:

See also

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