File Q:\FactoryRecovery\sdrivebackup.wim not found ?

[bill bolton]

Has anyone with encountered an error message which says....

• "The file Q:\FactoryRecovery\sdrivebackup.wim required by this program cannot be found. The process has been cancelled"

... when trying to create a set of Product Recovery disks on a recent Think Pad with S: and Q: partitions?

Cheers,

Bill B.

[neenee]

I have this problem on my new laptop which I received today.

[KEIZO TH]

I'm also facing same problem now.
My new laptop is W500 with VISTA 32.
Where can I find ' Sdrivebackup ' file there?
I tried everything, recovery to factry condtion, instaling all latest driver and others. however same announcement ppped up every time.
Right now I have come to a deadlock with this problem.

[neenee]

I checked out the Q and S drives and it did seem to have various images on there, enough to contain a full backup/restore partition. I made a backup of those partitions to an external drive and did a clean install of Vista though, as I felt the space used by the unusable recovery partition was wasted and I wanted to remove a portion of the preinstalled software.

I suspect that the person who performed the preinstall of Windows on this laptop, did not complete the entire process of setting up the recovery partition, but I have not taken the time to figure out how to complete it myself and finish this process.

A clean install was easy thanks to the Thinkvantage System Update software, which took care of downloading/installing the needed drivers/utilities for everything on the laptop to work.

[bill bolton]

After several phone calls over the problem, I did manage to get Lenovo support to send me a set of recovery disks (which is somewhat amazing, as they rarely do that in Australia).

Cheers,

Bill B.

[neenee]

Good to hear it

[citrixscu]

Has anybody mounted the .wim files with IMAGEX to see what they contain? You can always try to create a sdrivebackup.wim with all the contents of S: and see what happens. The Windows Automated Installation Kit will do it for you.

[neenee]

Hm. Though I'm very used to command line options, I have been unable to export/mount the images.

However, when checking out the RECOVERY.INI file in the FactoryRecovery directory, I think I found the command used to put back this recovery set to a partition. I have no spare partition to try this on though. Perhaps I could do it within a virtual machine, but I do not have the time to set that up at present.

[partition1]
size=1499
type=07
label=SERVICEV003
volume=S
active=1
recfromsp=0
imagename=Sdrivebackup.wim
install=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Sdrivebackup.wim 1 S:\
installsplit=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Sdrivebackup.swm 1 S:\ /ref Q:\factoryrecovery\Sdrivebackup*.swm
[partition2]
size=
type=07
label=SW_Preload
volume=C
active=0
recfromsp=0
imagename=Cdrivebackup.wim
install=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Cdrivebackup.wim 1 C:\
installsplit=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Cdrivebackup.swm 1 C:\ /ref Q:\factoryrecovery\Cdrivebackup*.swm

[citrixscu]

You probably need this:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

That is definitely the correct file to be referencing. What is "iuimagex.exe" ? It looks like it accepts the same switches at the original imagex.exe. Weird.

What does the directory structure of Q:\ look like?

[dav]

Final solution: create a new (empty) file in the Q:\FactoryRecovery folder and name it sdrivebackup.wim.
It works.