yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows RT General] dalexop:
VivoTAB restore image

Hi Fenohavana,

I agree, there is some problem with the windows image file.

I notice that subtle changes will completely stop the Tablet from booting at all.

Even though I've got a good BCD file now and can link it to the RE Menu, I can't get past the error either.

The really challenging issue with this tablet is the lack of tools.

While I configured the BCD file for Boot Logging, it never wrote out to the ntbtlog.txt file.

There are no tools or logs this early in the boot process to help us.

After three months of working on this tablet, I am giving up and going the RMA route.

I'm sure I've spent 80 to 90 hours on this issue.

:(

Once I get the Tablet back, I now know how to copy all partitions off to a backup drive.

I'll do that and I'll post the image for you.

I am really interested to see what the boot files look like on a working model !

:)
[Windows RT General] black_blob:
Thanks for this image(I'm now writing NT drivers for Windows RT on QemuARM)
[Windows RT General] dalexop:
Vivotab Recovery Image

Incredible !

ASUS is unable to re-image this Tablet.

The first step was to read the Serial Number in order to validate it so they could track it in their shop.

Their next question was " Is this a Referb as these 3rd parties often " Change " the Serial Number.

( Which it is a Refurb )

ASUS was unable to access the tablet using their standard tools so their response was that the motherboard needs to be changed at a cost of $300.00 ( Since the tablet is long out of warranty.

So, this might help to explain why this particular Tablet is unable to leverage the images linked on this thread.

( And why other people are able to )

I am following up with the vendor "Norther Micro" To find out who refurb'd the unit.

I seem to be coming to end end of my options.

If anyone out there has access to a tool that can read the contents of the firmware ( Particularly the encrypted Serial Number field ) you may be my only hope.

:)

Fenohavana, my last question, is your non-booting tablet a refurbished unit ?

Thanks
[Windows RT General] fenohavana:
It might be a refurbished one because I bought it second hand in Akihabara Japan. The shop took off the serial number and they said it is not under warranty. It has been with surface's windows rt and didn't have the drivers for gps and for others devices. It is my first tablet with windows rt system and I didn't know anything about it. I didn't ask questions also because I don't speak Japanese. At least, I can still use its keyboard with the working device :). Thank you for trying to find solutions but sometimes it's better to simply give up. Keeping following this thread just in case :)
[Windows RT General] WatchMeBling:
So I've searched and searched and I can't find a 100% correct way to fix my Vivo RT LTE. The best I can do is to reboot it with a Windows RT made for a Surface Pro. You can get Windows to load up but you are missing a few ASUS drivers for your Vivo (Wifi, sound, etc.). If anyone knows how to get the drivers please let me know, Asus has 0% support for Windows RT. Thanks!
[Windows RT General] NRadonich:
Can I get a copy of the TF600TL Recovery USB, please?

I'm in the same boat, cannot boot and cannot recover.

Thanks!
[Windows RT General] dalexop:
NT_Drivers for RT

Hey there Black_Blob,

Do you have any tools to query the VivoTab RT UEFI Firmware ??

I am convinced that the Refurb company that sold these "Second Hand" units changed it somehow.

In fact, is it possible to Flash UEFI on a VivoTab RT with a copy from another one ?

We can only get the Apatcas image to run Windows RE, and only off of USB.

Plenty of other people seem to get it to work right off the bat.

Others still seem to get the Surface Image going as well.

I have pulled the ESD image from my recovery partition and converted it to an ISO.

I can start windows Setup no problem. It keeps asking me for the Windows Activation Code.

( Which it should not with OEM UEFI )

So I believe the Refurb company twisted something in there....

Thanks

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Hi There WatchMeBling,

Say, how exactly did you load the Surface Pro Image ??

1) Where did you get it ?

2) Was it ISO ??

3) If so, did it not ask for the Windows Activation Code ?

4) How did it build the Partitions and BCD store ???

I've pulled my Recovery Partition to an offline drive and have the original Windows RT .esd image and the folders with all the drivers.

I'll post the drivers on OneDrive for you and attach the link.
[Windows RT General] black_blob:
I can't currently and the UEFI firmware is signed(you can't play with it like you like)

Surface Pro is x86 and VivoTab is ARM :)
[Windows RT General] umar4u:
Recovering from partition

Hi, simple and maybe stupid question.

My Asus RT TF600TL doesn't start, only blue screen with error.

1. Is it possible to recover Win RT from hidden partition on tablet? I suppose it must be there because I never deleted it.

2. Then how to enter into recovery mode or it only works with USB recovery drive?

Thanks in advance.
[Windows RT General] NRadonich:
Hello,

Has anyone been able to extract the VivoTab RT recovery partition and the WIM File?

Thanks!
[Windows RT General] NRadonich:
So the folks at ASUS are complete gits. They advised they do not have the recovery files available, and that I will have to RMA my device and have it repaired at a cost of $200US. I might as well buy one used on EBay and try to extract the disk as an image.
[Windows RT General] dalexop:
Vivotab Recovery Image

Just answered my own question.

I opened the Apatcas image and renamed install.win in the sources folder to install_original.win. I then copied my install.esd into the folder and rebooted.

The Apatcas image booted into Win RE as usual. However this time when I went into the Recovery Screen and chose Reset the PC, Recovery Environment saw the ESD file and presented a WinRT image button. ( This is a first ! ) It then tried to deploy and died. However, this is likely because there are scripts missing.

This finally answers my question about the ESD file and how to deploy it.

My test also proves that Boot.Wim gets us into the Windows Recovery environment since it still works when install.wim is not there !

Is my Vivotab working ? Nope.

:(

However, we finally know how to load these files and present them to Windows Recovery Environment.
[Windows RT General] dalexop:
VivoTab Recovery

Hey there,

In theory the Tablet should indeed boot into Recovery mode after three unsuccessful normal boots.

However this function did not happen for me. ( I have a regular TF600T )

You need to boot using the USB to consistently access the Recovery Environment.

Pickup the Apatcas image at the very beginning of this thread.

Create a bootable USB and copy the files there. ( There are many descriptions on how to do this through out the thread )

Then use DiskPart to assign drives to the hidden partitions and see what's there.

You'll have two recovery partitions, one for WINRE and the other will be the full image.

Once you are in Winre, the Reset menu will show you what images Winre sees via the BCD store.

If you are really lucky, your BCD store will still be in tact and it will be picked up by your WinRE.

If that's true, you will see several icons in the Reset Menu, like USB image, WINRT, EMMC image.

They should work fine from there. If not, you have bigger issues with your tab.

Good luck !

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Hi folks,

After 4 long months, I've finally resolved my ASUS Vivotab TF600T image issue.

The solution in the end was quite simple and not stressful at all !

I bought an HP Pavilion 10-k012ca with full Windows 8.1

LOL

I hate giving up, but after months of effort, & visiting the Rebfurb shop, visiting ASUS Canada, reaching out to stores in the area, all resulted in a brick wall.

That is precisely what I now have, a lovely 10 " coaster that has been "bricked" in Windows RE.

I am not sure whether this is just a Refurbished Tablet issue, however, the product has limited tools and no corporate support.

Good luck folks,
[Windows RT General] krew790:
Had it going into recovery mode then crashing the repeat; ran the image on the front page to a flash drive and ran it, now i am at a

Error Code: 0x0000001

Anyone advice, going to look further into this but posting for the hell of it if anyone has advice.

Im at a point where im going to just remove the hard drive and see what i can do with it mounted.

Anyone have an Image like a bit for bit copy of their drive for me to just image my drive with?
[Windows RT General] apatcas:
Hey guys.

Sorry for the long reply time, been really busy lately. Please also thank BlackSoil for having such a detailed instructions. I will try to monitor this thread closer, but i cannot think of any single issue that would arise if you follow BlackSoil's tutorial.
[Windows RT General] bojan1:
I have a question. I have a problem code 0cX0000225 or smth like that and \windows\system32\winload.efi problem after upgrade to 8.1 from Store. Can I cure my system with BlackSoil tutorial and apatcas recovery files?
[Windows RT General] bojan1:
SOLVED IT!!! My Vivotab is alive and running!!! Thank you OP and Blacksoil and others!
[Windows RT General] imranking:
Hi my all brother how are you

I have hp laptop win 7 pavilion dv6 and i have recovery C and 8 want recovery my laptop how to do plz hel me brother
[Windows RT General] nerfbat:
I'd like it, please. Thanks

if any one want my recovery disk(windows rt asus vivotab rt tf600tl) please reply.

Good luck.
[Windows RT General] d.flory:
recovery disk asus tf600tl

If you can upload a link or files recovery for asus tf600tl PLEASE....
[Windows RT General] tracins:
Saved me from a lot of misery. Thank you!! Searched for a long time!
[Windows RT General] guju913:
hello, i am looking for for recent recovery disk for my asus vivotab, thanks to share me a link.

is it possible to windows 8 insatall for vivotab ?
[Windows RT General] nerfbat:
Now for a crash course in German...

Out of the files posted, including the firmware download from ASUS, I was only successful with the German one, it's in posted above, I got to go or I'd link it. You have to follow the format / gpt instuctions to the letter, I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Free. Son far I'm 1 for 2 on my tf600t's. Also charge up, use the 18v stock one and it finally worked when I docked it.don't see how that made a difference, didn't use keys...tf600tg? i think, and with luck you'll be googling german words...
[Windows RT General] Chi Chan:
Vivo RT Recovery image file

Please send me a copy..... Thanks!
[Windows RT General] Mitch C:
Asus Vivo RT 8.1

Do anyone have Asus Vivo RT 8.1 restore image file for download? I just got my system crash!
[Windows RT General] Mitch C:
Please send me a copy of your recovery disk.... thank you
[Windows RT General] SWMPDX:
Asus Rt Image

Will greatly appreciate

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Follow the instructions till end, last command fails to execute saying no file found. Hence whole procedure fails, Any insight where to go from here?
[Windows RT General] fishingnut23:
recovery disk

Do you still have the recovery disk? I am in dire need of one to get my vivotab rt back running. Thanks. Lana
[Windows RT General] Swiftu§Fist:
tf600t recovery image

hi

can i have your image pls ?

i cant recovermy tf600t without image.

Thanks
[Windows RT General] BuzzardB:
Could I get a copy of that image as well?
[Windows RT General] orientalsniper:
Me too
[Windows RT General] lizard0101:
Could someone please share the file VivoTab.RAR posted originally by thread opener Alex Patcas in the first post. I can store and share on a public space for further requests in the future.

(My vivotab is running, but I need to revert to 8.0 because of the flashing and vibrating screen issue. The recovery/reinstall option restores 8.1 again from backup partition unfortunately only.)

Thank you!
[Windows RT General] BuzzardB:
Can you perform the recovery from the microSD card instead of a USB device?

The battery in the keyboard part died a while ago so its not usable. I have the image and recovery.exe file on the microsd card but I can't get it to boot off of it.
[Windows RT General] joshnyc13:
Can you repost this please.

Thank you.
[Windows RT General] apatcas:
I will have these back up in less then 24 hours. Sorry... Moved domains and forgot about these.
[Windows RT General] apatcas:
OK... files are back up.
[Windows RT General] DDeSio77:
Recover usb

You wouldnt happen to still have the files would you? i really need them. my vivotab rt tf600t is stuck in a boot loop. thanks in advance.
[Windows RT General] apatcas:
Link's in the 1st post
[Windows RT General] shahjeeasus:
Full Recover link

Only TF600TG Drivers:

stoeckler

(Full Recovery Dump)

Link is not working , Can you please upload it somewhere else, Thanks
[Windows RT General] roronoa120:
HI i have the same problem. mistakenly used the surface RT recovery iso. how did you solve it? i need also the recovery for TF600T. HELP please!!!! contact me, felisleoan_bogitz@yahoo.com. ASAP please. I hate why ASUS and microsoft donot give enough support. sigh....
[Windows RT General] dexter82606:
Hi. I have a Asus vivotab rt tf600tl and I can't find the recovery disk. Can you please send me a copy.

Thank you.
[Windows RT General] dev2728:
Asus VivoTab (RTF600T)

My Asus VivoTab (RTF600T) has no OS or recovery on it so it just stays on the Asus logo screen and I can not find any recovery images over the internet for it, and I can not enter the bios menu to boot off a flash drive ether, does anyone know what the hardware shortcuts are to access the bios/boot menu?
[Windows RT General] apatcas:
I think you're supposed to hold volume up to get into the BIOS
[Windows RT General] robcop2:
help

Hi everyone.

I had got the same problem to recovery partition, so i did the guide in previous page, and now i have got the problem to boot.

So did anyone solve it? Or can anyone post the image of system partition? thanks
[Windows RT General] MaxRoma78:
Hi! I try to use the recovery image of apatcas but it not work on my Aus Vivo Tab TF600TG. I follow all instructions but nothing. Help me! Thanks. Sorry for my english
[Windows RT General] a.capella.with.music:
Hi.

So. I am at this step

11. Flash the image on your USB drive onto your TF600T:

Type: "dism /apply-image /imagefile:X:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:W:

On the link that someone suggest i follow. antoniusdharijanto.com/2015/05/consolidated-guide-to-recovery-your.

I'm getting file or path could not be found. I've searched the internet on how to fix that, it did not work or I maybe just did not search thoroughly.

Command number 10 reformat existing drive so I'm stuck with a tablet that doesn't have an os. I figure I could not install any other windows operating system because tablet is armm based? Am i correct in saying that? Basta hinde sha 32 bit or 64 bit.

I'm stuck. Pls help.

:(
[Windows RT General] soon son:
I have formatted win RT from my Asus TF600T. It now stays on the Asus Logo. It can't boot to windows anymore. I want to reinstall it to Win RT. How do I do it?thanks help me please thanks
[Windows RT General] Tavor999:
Unable to restore VivoRT

Hi there,

I've followed the instructions by BlackSoil and tried both apatcas files and the microsoft one, and none worked.

The device still stuck on error code 0x0000001 blue screen (same as posted in #126/#79).

Any help would be appreciated.
[Windows RT General] spiritshaman14:
I searched a lot and found this:

I was deploying a W2K8 R2 image on a ML350 G5 some time ago and was unable to make the system partition bootable. Never thought of writing about this but the issue reappeared lately on a G7 so here it goes..

Running “bcdboot.exe c:\windows /l en-us” returned a “Failure when attempting to copy boot files” error. And yes, I did check if the partition was active and it was. I heard that this issue was resolved by some by destroying the array, rebuilding it and installing the image again. I did so but with no further luck – unfortunately a huge waste of time over iLO and a slow connection (you probably know what I mean).

Turns out that the command which finally worked correctly was “bcdboot c:\Windows /s c: /l en-us” while running it from the WinPE drive.

The “/s” option according to the manual “Specifies an optional volume letter parameter to designate the target system partition where boot environment files are copied. The default is the system partition identified by the firmware.”

I guess the default system partition could not be properly identified thus all the fuss. Weird, I haven't found a reason for this. Didn't look deeper since I found a fix. Anyway, hope this helps!

so out of desperation I changed the last line to: bcdboot w:\windows /s w:

and it created boot files successfully! however now I'm stuck on Asus logo.
[Windows RT General] clemininchou:
Hi all, does anybody still get the German full recovery of TF600TG? because the link is down and i really need it, it was the only one present over the net x)

Thanks !!!
[Windows RT General] :
Hello,

i have a new motherboard for my Vivo Tab TF600t from america.

So i am searching for an recovery file with the german language.

Did anyone have the files for me?

Thx and have a nice day
[Windows RT General] superfabek:
Hi guys!

I'm looking for recovery files for my infelicitous Vivotab TF600TL (LTE version) and BCD files from Windows and EFI. I've tried already:

- 3 recovery packs from alexpatcas, egorblack and russian site

- manual disk partitioning

- automatic clean and recovery

- 2 diskpart's scripts to prepare partitions

- 2 deployment methods of windows8

- 2 usb drives (sd card didn't work)

- entered to low level Embedded Boot Loader

Everything without positive results. Still appears error 0xc0000001 at booting after install.

I will be appreciate for any advices.

Thanks.

Ps. Who can share me recovery file or rared files from c:\ partition?
[Windows RT General] jareguero:
Do you have an image for tf600t in spanish?
[Windows RT General] jareguero:
Hi, do you know if the images are multilingual or diferents by language?

Thanks.
[Windows RT General] haywoods1:
Asus tf600tl

If any one want my recovery disk(windows rt asus vivotab rt tf600tl) please reply.

Good luck.[/QUOTE]

DO YOU STILL HAVE THE ACTUAL RECOVERY DRIVE FILES FOR THE ASUS tf600tl FROM AT&T? HOW ABOUT THE CODE TO UNLOCK. I HAVE TRIED NUMEROUS OTHER SUGGESTIONS TO RESET THIS DEVICE WITHOUT LUCK.
[Windows RT General] superfabek:
I'm pretty sure that 0xc0000001 error is related to wrong BCD and missing or wrong emmc disk drivers - boot manager can't load winload.efi because it's invisible.
[Windows RT General] MihaiA.:
Hi, tried to flash vivort.rar onto an tf600tg, dism gives me error 3 the system cannot find the path specified. Checked and double checked, followed the exact instructions, no luck, any ideas? Does anybody have the recovery image for tf600tg. Saw some posts where there was a link, doesn`t work now. Thank you!
[Windows RT General] wingolo:
Please, can you tell me how to get your (or any other) recovery image per the tf600t (windows 8.1 rt)?

I do really need one :crying:
[Windows RT General] FreeJAC:
Thanks to OP!

Thanks again to the OP! I was given one of these tabs by my cousin that moved away. It had a lost password that he had no clue what it was plus wanted all his data cleaned off. I was able to use the image here to restore the tablet back to factory and then update all the way to RT 8.1. I had a real hard time getting it to install using Windows RE. I had to remove the Windows partition manually using diskpart and the override (I think that was it) to clear out the bitlockered partition. I then had to use the option to remove all partitions in Win RE and then try again this time leave partitions in tact then it finally installed. Another challenge was the charger would only work in the tablet itself not in the keyboard. Leaving it charge overnight helped. In the end it was a PITA but it did end up working, still in October 2016! :) Great community here, first time poster long time lurker!
[Windows RT General] todpalin:
Thanks,

This worked perfectly. I downloaded the file in the first post, extracted it to a bootable USB, vol down + power and did a reset PC + wipe just files. All the drivers now work perfectly in my t600tf.
[Windows RT General] rooterrdamm:
Vivort Mirrors:

Google Drive

MEGA

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[Windows RT General] mike565:
need recover disk

can you please send me link for your recovery disk. thank you
[Windows RT General] yohojones:
This worked perfect. Remind me not to delete the system partition. Thank you chathu60!
[Windows RT General] benstiller01:
Thanks for the files. I had to do quite a bit more to unsoftbrick my tf600t.

If you search for walkthrough of installing windows pe on uefi it gives the extra missing steps. Like copying boot files to S: partition and configuring bcdboot.

But thanks for the install.vim file you saved my device!
[Windows RT General] MihaiRotaru:
hi can you explain the steps how to instal it on my device

hi can you explain the steps how to instal it on my device please, i realy dont know,
[Windows RT General] benstiller01:
You need to boot off of a usb and follow the steps the original poster mentions plus the extra steps here:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh265131(v=ws.10).aspx

Good luck ;)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] HD7WP7-User:
Somehow I corrupted my virtual external storage partition and cannot mount it or format it, when I boot my phone it says "Damaged Phone Storage". I've wiped and re-flashed ViperXL but no change and while I can erase the storage in TWRP it doesn't fix it, nor is it visible if I try to mount it from TWRP either. It seems like it works sometimes for internal operations as I can download files but I can never mount it.

I'm running TWRP 2.4.1.0, ViperXL 3.2.3, and HBOOT 2.14, with S-OFF on an AT&T branded One X.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
You may have might the somewhat common mistake of doing a factory reset in hboot, which corrupts the SD card (only factory reset in TWRP in the future). You should be able to connect the phone to a PC, go to Device Manager, and it should give you the option to format the SD. Format it FAT32, and should be good to go.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] HD7WP7-User:
Yes I know I did try that at one point, think it was after the initial problem started but come to think of it the "Damaged Phone Storage" error wasn't there initially so maybe I made the problem worse. Let me see if I can locate a cable somewhere around here I can borrow so I don't have to wait until I get home and try to see if I can mount it and format it through Disk Management. I think the last time I tried connecting it to the PC I got a FC on the android.media process though.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
I don't think the phone even needs to be booted, for the SD to be formatted. Try it in hboot.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] HD7WP7-User:
Seems worse now, I cannot mount it in TWRP, the option is grayed out but a 9.9GB drive does appear in Disk Management but it fails to format.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] HD7WP7-User:
Ok, I got it fixed. I used the Evita Toolkit to flash the newly released TWRP and that allowed me to mount and use the External Storage from within recovery. Then I wiped and reflashed ViperXL 3.2.3. The android.process.media error is a glitch in the full ROM and fixed by flashing the OTA update. So now I can mount the SD card partition in recovery and the phone shows up as an MTP device which I can access while booted to android as well.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
Interesting solution. Wouldn't have thought to try that. Thanks for posting.