AsI am no longer able to revert back to Windows 10 (from Windows 11) without losing too many changes I have been forced to install an alternate product and initiate weekly backups using that until System Recovery has support for Windows 11. (and that other product is so tedious to add separate individual disk backups each week. I will be so glad when I can use VSR on the Windows 11 system once more! )
Is there any news yet as to a possible approximate time frame for Windows 11 Support ? I tried searching for Windows 11 but it instead searched for windows and 11 so couldn't find any previous threads discussing the issue.
Veritas is committed to VSR and with VSR22 we even added a brand-new VSR Manager, a replacement of the VSR Management Solution, which required engineering's full attention and more to come.
Because of that, there was a delay in the proliferation support.
Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 11 support should be achieved by the end of February 2022, as it is currently undergoing the qualification process. We are consistently working to optimize our processes and will ensure in future to deliver proliferation support in a timely fashion.
Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a recovery environment that can repair common causes of unbootable operating systems. WinRE is based on Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), and can be customized with additional drivers, languages, Windows PE Optional Components, and other troubleshooting and diagnostic tools. By default, WinRE is preloaded into the Windows 10 and Windows 11 for desktop editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education) and Windows Server 2016, and later, installations.
After any of these actions is performed, all user sessions are signed off and the Advanced startup menu is displayed. If your users select a WinRE feature from this menu, the PC restarts into WinRE and the selected feature is launched.
You can add one custom tool to the Advanced startup menu. Otherwise, these menus can't be further customized. For more info, see Add a Custom Tool to the Windows RE Advanced startup Menu.
You can customize WinRE by adding packages (Windows PE Optional Components), languages, drivers, and custom diagnostic or troubleshooting tools. The base WinRE image includes these Windows PE Optional Components:
The number of packages, languages, and drivers is limited by the amount of memory available on the PC. For performance reasons, minimize the number of languages, drivers, and tools that you add to the image.
During the specialize configuration pass, the WinRE image file is copied into the recovery tools partition, so that the device can boot to the recovery tools even if there's a problem with the Windows partition.
Add the baseline WinRE tools image (winre.wim) to a separate partition from the Windows and data partitions. This enables your users to use WinRE even if the Windows partition is encrypted with Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption. It also prevents your users from accidentally modifying or removing the WinRE tools.
Store the recovery tools in a dedicated partition, directly after the Windows partition. This way, if future updates require a larger recovery partition, Windows will be able to handle it more efficiently by adjusting the Windows and recovery partition sizes, rather than having to create a new recovery partition size while the old one remains in place.
In order to boot Windows RE directly from memory (also known as RAM disk boot), a contiguous portion of physical memory (RAM) which can hold the entire Windows RE image (winre.wim) must be available. To optimize memory use, manufacturers should ensure that their firmware reserves memory locations either at the beginning or at the end of the physical memory address space.
Unlike the normal OS update process, updates for Windows RE don't directly service the on-disk Windows RE image (winre.wim). Instead, a newer version of the Windows RE image replaces the existing one, with the following contents being injected or migrated into the new image:
The Windows RE update process makes every effort to reuse the existing Windows RE partition without any modification. However, in some rare situations where the new Windows RE image (along with the migrated/injected contents) does not fit in the existing Windows RE partition, the update process will behave as follows:
To ensure that your customizations continue to work after Windows RE has been updated, they must not depend on functionalities provided by Windows PE optional components which are not in the default Windows RE image (e.g. WinPE-NetFX). To facilitate development of Windows RE customizations, the WinPE-HTA optional component has been added to the default Windows RE image in Windows 10.
The new Windows RE image deployed as part of the rollup update contains language resources only for the system default language, even if the existing Windows RE image contains resources for multiple languages. On most PCs, the system default language is the language selected at the time of OOBE.
This is a known issue and the workaround is to either avoid setting the "Accounts: Block Microsoft accounts" to "User can't add or log with Microsoft Account" or set the MDM policy Security/RecoveryEnvironmentAuthentication to 2.
Hi Jeff, I am not sure what type of Windows restore you are goint to perform. I assume that Windows will remove your Dropbox files during the restoration process. In that case, I would suggest the following:
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to answer Elixr's question, I would only be reverting windows 10 to remove a windows 10 update. this process does not delete my files or folders. However, from experience, I know that this process does affect dropbox's tracking of the sync status between my online dropbox files and their respective copies on my local desktop machine, and can cause major issues downstream.
I should also note that I cannot delete my local copies of my files stored in my desktop dropbox folder, as not all of them are synced up to my online dropbox folder, as selective sync is turned off on certain folders, due to issues arising from my previous bout with a windows 10 update earlier this year.
So if it is possible to advise a means by which I can maintain both my desktop dropbox folders and my online dropbox folders in their current status, I would appreciate it. If your earlier advice will do it, let me know.
@Jeff S.73 If Windows restore does not affect your local files and folders, after the reinstallation and relinking Dropbox app should not cause any problem provided you preserve all settings including Dropbox folder location. However, Dropbox app might reindex your files agin, just give it some time, and everything should be alright. It is recommended that you make a backup copy of your local data to an external drive, there is a small but finite chance that things go wrong during Windows restoration process.
If you use windows system restore although it should not effect files and folders it will effect your dropbox files. I had to preform a system restore on a Windows 7 machine that was dated from 7 days previous to the restore date.
After the restore Dropbox treated the restored folders that existed and had the information from 7 day before as the most recent file and overwrote the newer cloud storage versions essentially deleting anything that was done in those 7 days.
This happened to be a lot of very important information in my case. Luckily with the help of the support team they were able to restore all the files from the 30day backup they keep. This was done within a few hours but caused a lot of stress due to the importance of the files.
If you are going to use system restore function in windows you must backup your data from dropbox if there has been any changes to the files between the date you restore and the restore point you use. If you do not you may face possible hassle in recovery and potentially loss of data.
I know this question has been asked before in a variety of ways. For past 2 days I've been struggling with this. I have a variety of issues with my iMac 8,1 I need to fix and simply have to enter Recovery Mode.
My problem is I don't have an Apple Keyboard. So using Windows USB keyboard. I've combed the forums and the internet and ready "Command+R", "Alt+R", on windows "Command" is "ALT", then sometimes "Command" is "Ctrl". I've tried every dang combination after hearing the start up chime. I have done "Restart" vs "PowerDown + Press Button". There is nothing I have not tried.
"Windows" key is same as "Command" key. Copy that, even if you search you will also here "ALT" key and "CTRL" key instead. I will say to get the "boot" menu "Alt" works which would suggest it is the "Command" key.
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