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

Bsl K said:
If you want your f3 recovery back then you have to manually adjust the partition size of your drive during the format. But this will clean your hard disk. If you want, i can give you the command to use during the format.
Not the best solution, but one thing you can do is to use the recovery file of my prestige 15 model to format your harddrive. later you can install or uninstall the drivers needed for your laptop.
use THIS LINK to download files. Read the instructions clearly.
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I couldn't find the file belonging to my laptop model in this link. Could you please share the files for Katana GF76-12UC with me?
I'm sorry about my bad English. I am writing a message with the help of translation.
 
yuzucual15cf02ef said:
Dizüstü bilgisayar modelime ait dosyayı bu bağlantıda bulamadım. Katana GF76-12UC dosyalarını benimle paylaşır mısınız?
Kötü İngilizcem için üzgünüm. Çeviri yardımıyla bir mesaj yazıyorum.
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Uhm I don't have your recovery files but it is okay we still can recover your notebook or and I don't reccomend asking the msi support for recovery files cause they don't give it I tried once but it is okay we still can recover it just please send an screen shoot of your disk management so I know what I need to tell you.
 
I will say the tutorial in there so download the recovery files that Bsl K sended you know which link I mean after you download it install windows 10 or 11 in 8 GB usb then boot into windows 10/11 installer then prees open command prompt in there and use this commands
diskpart
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
create partition efi size=300
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary size= 256000
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"
create partition primary size=900
format quick fs=ntfs label="WinRE tools"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
assign letter="T"
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="DATA"
assign letter="Y"
Select Partition 5
Shrink Desired=15656
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="BIOS_RVY"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
assign letter="R"
REM RECOVERY_IMAGE_SIZE_V = 15656
exit
exit and when you did that contiune to install windows 10/11 after that install the basic drivers then after that uh mount the recovery_dvd1 and go to RECOVERY_DVD folder and you will find install.swm make sure to open it with 7zip and after you open it you will see an winre.wim so after that uh assign a letter to your partition called WinRE tools and then get accsees to WinRE tools folders so you can replace the winre.wim so just enable to see hidden things in WinRE tools and you will already find the winre.wim so replace the that winre.wim with the other winre.wim that I said you where to get it from after you replace it you will also see an xml file in that install.swm file it is called [1}.xml so move that file to destkop and rename it to ReAgent and replace that with the other ReAgent in WinRE tools and after your done now it is time to assign letter to a driver called BIOS_RVY so assign letter to just make sure to assign letter "R" to BIOS_RVY driver and the letter "T" for WinRE tools anyway so after you assigned letter to BIOS_RVY create a folder called RecoveryImage and the recovery files that you downloaded from that link have like install.swm files just to make it shorter just mount the recovery_dvd iso recovery_dvd2 recovery_dvd3 recovery_dvd4 recovery_dvd5 and you will find the install.swm files if your confused at finding the file called install.swm it is at recovery_dvd iso the first one it is at RECOVERY_DVD folder so copy that 5 install.swm files into that RecoveryImage folder in BIOS_RVY driver and after that's done restart your notebook and just prees f3 and you will find the option to recover the system and yea you probably know after what you have to do it is easy but to warn you this recovery files only uses china language so if you want to change language just activate your windows and you will able to change the language but if you don't want the chinese language you will have to customize that recovery file anyways man I just reccomend you to activate windows and that's all this might be really confusing but that's the only tutorial that worked for me so it gotta definetly work for you too or if you still don't understand this tutorial then forget about factory resetting.
 
If your country just have msi repair center just give your notebook to repair center and they will do it for you that's all I can say for you.
 
Unfortunately, the msi service in my country does not have people who do their job properly. There's nothing they do but stall and delay short jobs. I went at least 2 times, but they couldn't solve my problem and sent me back. Besides, my main and biggest problem is this. I have a program that works on my old laptop. But on my MSI brand fully equipped and professional laptop, that program is currently shutting down on its own without error. And unfortunately, I couldn't solve this situation.
 
yuzucual15cf02ef said:
Unfortunately, the msi service in my country does not have people who do their job properly. There's nothing they do but stall and delay short jobs. I went at least 2 times, but they couldn't solve my problem and sent me back. Besides, my main and biggest problem is this. I have a program that works on my old laptop. But on my MSI brand fully equipped and professional laptop, that program is currently shutting down on its own without error. And unfortunately, I couldn't solve this situation.
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Oh don't worry if you just understanded my tutorial then your good ill send the link right now
 
Anyways I will still assist you if you have any problems just pm me here I'm literally free right now, I mean for a whole week so I'm kinda 24/7 active until 1:00 PM or 2:00 PM, so feel free to ask and if I don't answer this mean I'm sleeping.
 
Hey there @Bsl K I'm not here for any recovery problems I'm here to fix my dragon center if you know something about it so well dragon center latest version looks like this and I downloaded it from my laptop's page and it only showed true color I created a ticket and MSI OCSS said that my bios orginal environment was destroyed but I didn't believe that I sended this same problem to an forum that gives tutorial how to fix it well I sended and they said to run uninstaller and sdk uninstaller as administrator but I was confused what i needed to do so if you know any idea how to fix this can you please tell me
 

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@Bsl K Mine looks like this. My MSI GE66 Raider 12UH came with W11. I wanted windows 10 and Ubuntu in dualboot. Installed Windows 10 and added Ubuntu in Dualboot. This worked, but MSI recovery options missing. I deleted W10/Ubuntu and reinstalled W11 over W10. I now have System 300mb, Windows C (Windows 11):, E: * (something else maybe something Ubuntu related) 813mb, * Win RE Tools 900mb and * Bios RVY 23.13gb

What do I do now? Do I delete the 813mb or the 900mb?
 

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stefan.van.leempu15e302e4 said:
@Bsl K Mine looks like this. My MSI GE66 Raider 12UH came with W11. I wanted windows 10 and Ubuntu in dualboot. Installed Windows 10 and added Ubuntu in Dualboot. This worked, but MSI recovery options missing. I deleted W10/Ubuntu and reinstalled W11 over W10. I now have System 300mb, Windows C (Windows 11):, E: * (something else maybe something Ubuntu related) 813mb, * Win RE Tools 900mb and * Bios RVY 23.13gb

What do I do now? Do I delete the 813mb or the 900mb?
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looking at your partition, it seems like 813mb is your current recovery partition, it should be 900MB one, pleae cnfirm it by using cmd to check the current reagentc/winre location. if it is on 813MB partition, then change it to 900M, and see if your msi recovery menu is back or not, if it is, then you can safely delete 813MB partition and merge it to windows partition i.e. C drive.
 
@Bsl K Thank you for your reply. WinRE seems to be volume 4 which is the 900mb one, so that is good. So I will remove the 813mb partition and check if the F3 msi recovery option is back. At the moment I am able to use the recovery partition by using the F3_recovery_usb files. I place the stick and restart with F11, choose the usb stick and recovery works within a couple of minutes. I do notice that when using F11 I also see Ubuntu in the list, I am guessing the 813mb is the Ubuntu Grub left over from my dualboot installation.
 

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stefan.van.leempu15e302e4 said:
@Bsl K Thank you for your reply. WinRE seems to be volume 4 which is the 900mb one, so that is good. So I will remove the 813mb partition and check if the F3 msi recovery option is back. At the moment I am able to use the recovery partition by using the F3_recovery_usb files. I place the stick and restart with F11, choose the usb stick and recovery works within a couple of minutes. I do notice that when using F11 I also see Ubuntu in the list, I am guessing the 813mb is the Ubuntu Grub left over from my dualboot installation.
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no boss, your 4rth partition is 813MB, your 5th partition is 900 MB. so ssign your winre locatin to partition 5, then you will get your f3 recovery back.
 
@Bsl K
I have made it worse I think. In my previous post I said I was able to use F3_recovery_USB, I actually also tried F3_Upgrade_USB (this took a lot longer and I had to restart pressing the power button, after restarting it had worked but just took a lot longer: 123 minutes). After doing this I now see an extra recovery partition. So now I have 3 recovery partitions. Just to be sure I need to remove the new 734mb recovery partition (which is currently partition 4) and the 813mb which is a Data partition. After deleting these the 900mb will become partition 4 and everything should be ok. Is that a correct assumption?
 

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stefan.van.leempu15e302e4 said:
How do I assign the WinRe to the correct partition?
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first in cmd, type "reagentc /disable",
then enter diskpart command, select parition winre_tool, i.e. in your case is partition 6 now.
assign letter
exit diskpart command
type " Reagentc /setreimage /path E:\Recovery\WindowsRE " , here replace E with the letter that is assigned to winre_tool. i guess in your case it will be E.
"reagentc /enable"

you will be good to go..
 
@Bsl K

Thank you for the replies.

I just don't understand the partition 6.

If I do this:
Diskpart
List disk
Select disk 0
List vol

then I get:

Volume 0 (WINDOWS)
Volume 1
Volume 2 (SYSTEM)
Volume 3
Volume 4 (WinRE tools)
Volume 5 (BIOS_RVY)

Shouldn't I do 'Select vol 4' after 'list vol'? Since there it shows WinRE tools? And then do

assign letter
exit diskpart command
type " Reagentc /setreimage /path E:\Recovery\WindowsRE " , here replace E with the letter that is assigned to winre_tool. i guess in your case it will be E.
"reagentc /enable"

Or am I misunderstanding something?
 

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stefan.van.leempu15e302e4 said:
@Bsl K

Thank you for the replies.

I just don't understand the partition 6.

If I do this:
Diskpart
List disk
Select disk 0
List vol

then I get:

Volume 0 (WINDOWS)
Volume 1
Volume 2 (SYSTEM)
Volume 3
Volume 4 (WinRE tools)
Volume 5 (BIOS_RVY)

Shouldn't I do 'Select vol 4' after 'list vol'? Since there it shows WinRE tools? And then do

assign letter
exit diskpart command
type " Reagentc /setreimage /path E:\Recovery\WindowsRE " , here replace E with the letter that is assigned to winre_tool. i guess in your case it will be E.
"reagentc /enable"

Or am I misunderstanding something?
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reagentc /disable
diskpart
sel dis 0
se par 6
assign
exit
Reagentc /setreimage /path E:\Recovery\WindowsRE
reagentc /enable
exit
 
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