

With Win7, however, you need to obtain the imagex.exe utility yourself. (See this webpage I put together for the corresponding Vista procedure.) The catch is imagex isn't included in Windows or the Win7 Recovery Environment by default, which is frustrating because it was included in Dell's Vista Recovery Environment. To give you a bit of background, your first post is on the right track regarding the imagex command, which you need to restore Dell's factory.wim backup image. Maybe that works, but I'd rather not be booted from the partition I'm trying to restore. However, the restore procedure appears to be attempted from your booted Windows installation rather than from a bootable CD/DVD recovery environment. The references to WAIK are correct to the extent WAIK is the official means of obtaining the imagex.exe utility. IAC, I've taken a quick scan at the Super Users thread you mentioned, and I'm not sure if it would really work. Click to expand.I don't get around to this forum every day, but I'm surprised it's been a couple days and you haven't had an answer from one of the forum regulars.
