System Image Recovery using GamerOS preset

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I'm currently customizing the GamerOS Preset and I wanted to keep system image recovery capabilities in my preset, for which I've not removed "Windows Recovery (WinRe) - winre.wim".
After booting, Backup and Restore, along with System Image is present in control panel, but I'm still unable to recover a system image, when accessing system image recovery by holding shift while rebooting, everytime I try I get this warning: "You need to sign in as administrator to continue, but there aren't any administrator account on this pc".

I'm still performing trial and error to see if any setting or unattended is causing this issue, if you know what it is let me know, I've attached my current preset.
 

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I've never noticed it before, but GamerOS has this System setting:
Code: 
                        <TweakGroup name="System">
                                <Tweak name="WinRE\UninstallWindowsRE">1</Tweak>
                        </TweakGroup>

This instructs OOBE to remove the WinRE image. Maybe that's the real problem. I have no idea why NTLite supports this setting, since you can separately remove the WinRE component.

UninstallWindowsRE
 
No wonder why I didn't found the problem, I was manually looking in Components because I wasn't expecting that, I'll try also deleting that line and post again the results.
 
Turns out that wasn't the issue, WinRE image is present but I'm still unable to recover a system image
 
Did you post a wrong version of the preset? Because the one shared removes WinRE, so I don't know if that's the most recent.
Code: 
                <c>winre 'Windows Recovery (WinRE)'</c>
 
Yes it was indeed a wrong version, but I've made sure to not remove WinRE INSIDE NTlite, I'll attach the corrent preset here.

And after some testing turns out removing the unattended solved the problem, so there's definetly some line there that needs some tweaking.
 

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I don't know if it matters, but GamerOS removes the Spanish language (Txmmy was a Canadian gamer) and ES is your locale.
 
That's mostly irrelevant, the main problem is "solved", I just needed to keep "System restore" to make system images, and WinRE to load them, but now when I try to make a system image i get "The backup failed. Class not registered (0x80040154)", with WinRE present.

Therefore I have the exact opposite problem, I can restore system images but can't make one, these are (probably) the lines causing this error: Line 32 and 579 respectively

Code: 
<c>backup 'Backup and Restore'</c>
<c>systemrestore 'System Restore'</c>

I don't know if Bitlocker could be needed to make System Images but it is indeed removed: Lines 545 and 997 respectively

Code: 
<c>securestartup 'BitLocker Drive Encryption'</c>
<Tweak name="BitLocker\PreventDeviceEncryption">1</Tweak>

I'm gonna be making some tests in the following days, if you know anything about this error code let me know.
 
Quick addendum: I actually need to change System locale to Japanese, so the kanji, katakana and hiragana are properly read, my ISO is kind of specialized for RPGMaker and old doujin games, for which you need to keep the MIDI synthtable, which GAMEROS removes.

Also I forgot to attach my current preset, in theory this one should work as intended, system image recovery included.
 

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BitLocker is required for Recovery images, because a primary reason for having Recovery is the ability to repair BitLocker volumes.
 
Is it really? I've tested this exact preset on a VM and I'm no longer getting the error, I've made a successful System Image on a external SSD, and to complete the test a successfull system image recover in winre.

Just so we're on the same wavelength, I'm talking about "Create a system image", located in "Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore (Windows 7)"

This preset only removed the first two lines, not the bitlocker ones.
 
Well to be more precise, this is the WinRE enviroment, AKA what allows the user to restore from system images, what actually makes said system images is the Windows 7 Recovery located in Control panel, as stated in my comment above. And not only are both components completely functional, but also system restore is significantly faster, probably because it's not making image systems out of encrypted partitions.

So I wanted to be able to make both, and yes indeed Bitlocker is absolutely not needed, but you do need to keep two extra components: Backup and restore and System restore.
 
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