Thanks Memitim for uploading the RT 8.1 image.
Now I only need to know how to apply that image to the Recovery Partition. I know you can use it from USB drive, but I'd like the recovery partition to work.
Here's how I got a "broken" Dell XPS 10 tablet up and running:
I purchased the tablet from someone who didn't got it to work after updating. The tablet wouldn't start anymore. I managed to download the Windows RT 8.0 Recovery USB Image from earlier in this thread. I used the
'Win32Disk Imaging tool' to install this image on a USB drive. I booted with this and I could successfully access the Advanced recovery options. I started the Command Prompt and launched Diskpart. I saw all of the partitions where gone (!). So I used Diskpart to re-install all of the partitions using the Microsoft standard (I found these commands in the
Surface RT Recovery Files provided by Microsoft). It looks like this:
Code:
convert gpt
create partition primary size=450
set id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
assign letter=T
create partition efi size=200
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter=S
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary
shrink minimum=4200
gpt attributes=0x0000000000000000
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter=W
create partition primary
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery image"
assign letter=R
rescan
exit
All went well. After recreating the partitions, I used the DISM command line tool to deploy the *.wim image on the USB drive to the Windows partition and installed the bootloader afterwards with the BOOTBCD command line tool. The tablet was fixed after this
I installed Windows RT 8.0 and updated to Windows 8.1 RT afterwards without problems
.
So, this is great news. But like I said, I would like to make sure there is a Full Recovery option available on the tablet itself, which recovers the Tablet to Windows 8.1 RT 'factory default' when using the 'Refresh' option
without using a USB drive. The Windows Installation and the 8.1 update doesn't create these Recovery files automatically on the Recovery Partition.
So, when you finish uploading a good 8.1 RT recovery Image, I'm gonna attempt re-creating the recovery partition and the WinRE tools.