Recovery disk creation in chuwi HI10

[Laura]

just make an image of the whole disk with a backup program (clonezilla, macrium reflect, acronis trueimage…)

[kurai]

Creating a recovery disk to USB thumbdrive worked OK for me on my earlier Hi10 revision (black USB3 port, 32-bit Windows) – at 2nd attempt.  Took about 1.5 hours, from memory.  There was no indication of what went wrong 1st time – it just came up with a generic task failed error message after about 30 minutes and exited.

Also – the Microsoft recovery process can be a little … picky.   Sometimes it says the recovery thumbdrive is useable for restore, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it resores 3rd party (desktop) apps and Windows customisations, languauges etc, sometimes it doesn’t.  There doesn’t seem to be much consistency to it – I had the same issues on a couple of different thumbdrives.  All worked *eventually*, but it took a lot of plugging in and out and reboots etc.

The same drives worked fine with Clonezilla.

 

All in all I’d say use Clonezilla instead for a simple bit-perfect snapshot of the disk.  You can save it to thumbdrive, SD card, USB harddisk, network share etc etc, whereas the MS “official” Recovery Disk option is way more restrictive about what it will save to and restore from.

[Ashraf]

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kurai wrote:

Creating a recovery disk to USB thumbdrive worked OK for me on my earlier Hi10 revision (black USB3 port, 32-bit Windows) – at 2nd attempt. Took about 1.5 hours, from memory. There was no indication of what went wrong 1st time – it just came up with a generic task failed error message after about 30 minutes and exited. Also – the Microsoft recovery process can be a little … picky. Sometimes it says the recovery thumbdrive is useable for restore, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it resores 3rd party (desktop) apps and Windows customisations, languauges etc, sometimes it doesn’t. There doesn’t seem to be much consistency to it – I had the same issues on a couple of different thumbdrives. All worked *eventually*, but it took a lot of plugging in and out and reboots etc. The same drives worked fine with Clonezilla. All in all I’d say use Clonezilla instead for a simple bit-perfect snapshot of the disk. You can save it to thumbdrive, SD card, USB harddisk, network share etc etc, whereas the MS “official” Recovery Disk option is way more restrictive about what it will save to and restore from.

@Kurai,

Thank you for your reply. Do u recommend running clonezilla within windows or using bootable disk/USB?I have already prepared clonezilla boot USB but dont know how to get boot menu. Any idea?..thanks…

[kurai]

Always do full disk images from bootable disk – running it from within a “live” Windows session adds a whole raft of complications and caveats.

 

To get to UEFI/BIOS boot menu shut down the tablet, then start it up again by holding down the volume up & power keys and it’ll boot into “BIOS” mode, where you can change boot priority order/device etc.

[Ashraf]

Awesome ….created clone using clonezilla in just 20 minutes!!! i am new to clonezilla . so going to check my image in virtualbox.

Thank you Kurai for your valuable guidance..

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