Creating system recovery partition - REAGENTC.EXE: Operation failed: b7 error

dear all,

i'm trying create recovery partition windows 2008r2 system. system using uefi partitions (all created microsofts standards) i'm having problems using reagentc.exe program. steps follows

partition hard disk using following diskpart commands:-

select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary size=15000
format quick fs=ntfs label="recovery"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
assign letter="r"
create partition efi size=100
format quick fs=fat32 label="system"
assign letter="s"
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary size=61440
format quick fs=ntfs label="os"
assign letter="c"
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="data"
assign letter="d"
exit

then

imagex /apply wim\drivec.wim 1 c:\
c:\windows\system32\bcdboot.exe c:\windows
imagex /apply wim\recovery\recovery.wim 1 r:\
rename r:\recovery\windowsre\install.txt *.wim
copy f:\wim\recovery\winre.wim r:\recovery\windowsre
c:\windows\system32\reagentc.exe /setreimage /path r:\recovery\windowsre /target c:\windows
c:\windows\system32\reagentc.exe /setosimage /path r:\recovery\windowsre /target c:\windows

the reagent setosimage works ok line above in bold fails error reagent.exe: operation failed: b7 cannot create file when file exists.  ideas causing problem.

the technet documentation , oem partner videos seem point windows 7 setups , have own take on doing same thing.  nothing seems consistent.

 

any received.

many thanks

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leonard powers

hi,

could please try following?

create setup usual, , instead of executing reagentc commands in windows pe, execute them elevated command prompt within windows. not matter whether 2 .wim files @ specified location command succeed or not. (i configure location prior creating recovery install.wim image done "on-the-fly" each install keep images date possible)

i use same locations described; r:\recovery\windowsre

kind regards,

stephan schwarz.

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