Solutions to majority of problems related to Restore/ Recovery / MSI F3 factory Reset

[Chris Butterfield]

Do you mean you want to clean install windows??
Well if thats the case then make sure not to format any partition, and just install on 3rd partition and later after setting up ur device, you may use diskclean utility to get rid of old windows.

If you do not break the partitions and especially the last partition named Bios_rvy, then in future you will be able to factory reset your pc..

By the way for any new msi user, or any pc users, i strongly recommend to backup the recovery folder of their c drive to archive.org so that they or any other folk with same model will be able to factory reset their pc.

So if you have fast internet, make a backup of the recovery image from Bios_rvy to archive.org or atleast recovery folder of c drive. Then you can proceed with your clean install as mentioned above.

Thanks for your advice; I will leave the Bios_rvy partition well alone.

 

[Bsl K]

Disk Management shows them empty

Diskmanagement stopped showing the real value of recovery partitions after windows 10.

BIOS_RVY but it is indeed empty.

How did you end up with this partitions? seems like you dont have original partitions.

how to populate my BIOS_RVY again

You can try recovery software like recuva to check if the deleted recovery image is still on you drive. if not then you cannot do that. you have to follow the tutoial and create your own backup, if you want to.