How do I add a Recovery Image to the partition

Hey, so I downloaded and installed Windows 11 24H directly from the Microsoft site and installed directly, and it looks like this is working - I have now run this through NLT - removing all the nonessential editions, and uploaded minimal drivers. I am going to try this and see what the result is - will come back to the thread shortly.

Essentially, when i get to recovery options, and try to do any i get the error 0x80070002
 
When you're removing non-essential editions, you're not deleting Winre.wim?
 
No, that is still there - and i have also checked inside the ISO folder - it is only happening when i have put this through NLTLite and removed some of the apps that are not needed - i have now tried it by only adding 3 drivers that are required, and removing some apps.
 
I have made progress on this!

It seems to break when i add specific drivers to the image - these drivers are required to see the drive

Intel RST Drivers without these, the SSD cannot be seen initially.

the workaround to this is having them on a separate USB and installing as and when the partitions are made - but this is a faff esp when NTLite can add them :-/

I am going to try isolating my WinRe.wim and adding the driver in to this also, will update thread with results
 
Some Intel SATA controllers are known to fail unless you include a different driver version that what's included with Windows. You can't predict which ones, you just have to boot the ISO and see if the drives aren't listed by Setup.
 
Hello

sorry you misunderstand - I already know the drivers required - I have built the devices outside of NTLite beforehand, then used NTLite to remove the unwanted apps and inject the drivers, which includes the RST files required - this is what seems to be breaking the Recovery options.

I have downloaded a fresh copy of Win11 24H2, opened in NTLite and removed the Apps, created the ISO and then used this - recovery works

What I am trying to do now is figure out if I can build the finished image including only the WiFi and RST driver files, where it doesn't break the ISO
 
There's a second problem which commonly afflicts RST. If you add a newer or different version of the driver then Windows picks the "wrong" version at boot time. It has to do with driver search order, and the criteria Windows uses to pick which driver is the "best fit".

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a general answer, and it's fixed on a case by case basis depending on your Intel controller.

Recovery is provisioned using the same working drivers as Windows has installed. So if there's a driver conflict, Recovery won't see the disk.
 
I know the official ones needed - the problem I now have is, I can either:

1. Build the image with the drivers needed including the RST drivers - which produces a working image, but breaks the recovery option

or

2. Leave the RST drivers out and have the end user manually add them when prompted for disk partitioning

This would essentially mean NTLite is a little reduntant for me as the benefits and use I have for it is do inject all the drivers, remove the apps, and utilise the unattended - which i cannot do due to this issue

Is there anything you can think of to assist?
 
You can try deleting the default Intel storage drivers (from Components / Drivers), before integrating the newer driver. This way, there is no driver conflict. This problem exists whether you're using NTLite or not, Intel's at fault because they're releasing drivers that don't correctly supersede previous driver sets.
 
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