How to reinstall Windows8.1

In 2013, many brands pre-installed Windows8 system. I believe that there are more and more users who use and contact Win8. Although the experience of Win8 system is mixed, it can't stop Microsoft's development progress. Half a month, Windows 8.1, an upgraded version of Win8, will be available soon. It can be said that 2013 is the era of 8. In the daily use process, Windows will inevitably fail or crash, and this time you can solve the problem by reinstalling the system. However, after the Win 8 system, the habits and tools for reinstalling the system have to be changed. Overnight, the cumbersome reinstallation of the system process has become so simple and user-friendly.

Because Win8/Win8.1 introduces three new system recovery features. "Recover the computer without affecting your files" (similar to what we think of system repair), "Restore all content and reinstall Windows" (similar to the system reinstallation we often say), "Advanced startup" & rdquo; (Similar to the system recovery in the era of Win7)

The following small series will take you to learn the system reinstallation process under Windows 8.1 system.

Preparation Tools: A copy of the Windows 8.1 ISO system image.

Specific steps:

1. Load the Windows 8.1 ISO image and copy the image/sources/install.wim file to other non-system disk directories, for example: D:sources folder.

2. Query the install.wim information in the ISO image. For example: enter the dism query command in the command character (administrator)

dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:d:sourcesinstall.wim

//can be queried in D:sourcesinstall.wim System image and their respective index numbers.

For example, the small series is a 64-bit Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition with an index of 1.

3, is also the most important step: configuration recovery image work: then need to use the REAgentC command

//REAgentC.exe tool is for Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Server 2012/Server2012 R2 Supports setting up Windows(R) repair environment (Windows RE) boot image and one-click recovery backup image. It can also be used to manage recovery options and custom projects. The REAgentC command can be executed on an offline Windows image or on an executing Windows operating system.

Start configuring the recovery image

Enter the configuration command in the command character (administrator)

reagentc /setosimage /path X:sources /index N

//The path after the path indicates the path to the folder where the install.wim file is located. The N after the index indicates the index number in the wim image to be restored

So enter the recipec /setosimage /path d:sources /index 1

After the operation is successful, execute the reagentc /info command View the configuration of the recovery image:

4, the preparation work is done, the system recovery (reload) can start at any time

Open the computer settings, enter the update and recovery, select restore

Select to delete everything and reinstall Windows, then the following message will appear:

Next

There are two partition disks affected by the small series

If you select “ delete only my files & rdquo;, this option is simply to format the partition, the initialization process takes very little time (about 10 minutes). If you plan to transfer your computer to someone else, it is recommended to choose the second option, so that the partition will be erased first in the recovery process so that the original files in the partition are difficult to recover, which will take a long time.

The last step, click “Initialize” will automatically restart to complete the initialization process. If you do not intend to reinstall the system, please be cautious. The initialization process takes about 10 minutes. After the completion, it will restart again. After the restart, some hardware driver configuration, user account settings and other operations are required. After the configuration is complete, you will enter a brand new Windows 8.1 operating system.

At this point, it was discovered that system recovery or reinstallation has become so simple in the era of Win8/Win8.1. You don't need an external CD, or a USB flash drive (if you just want to restore your computer without affecting your files), you can use the installation disk or the USB flash drive. If you have already used the Windows 8.1 system, set it up quickly, in case you need it.

Attached: x:sourcesinstall.wim, you can directly use the original system to install the wim image in the image, or you can use dism to manually back up the wim image after the complete system disk, eliminating the trouble of installing software and drivers later. .