Asus Vivo RT recovery files

Here's the VivoRT recovery files for anyone who wants them.

To get this working you will need to create a recovery drive from Windows RT. It will still create the USB recovery system even if you do not have the recovery partition files on your C drive anymore.

So what you want to do is create the recovery then unzip the files and copy them to the USB replacing the files there.

That's it! You should be able to boot and use the recovery.

http://patcas.tech/share/vivort.zip

Hope that helps. And if it does hit the thanks button.

Consolidated Guide to Recovery your TF600T!

Hi guys,
After spending 2 weeks pondering around the Internet and this thread, I've finally figured out how to restore my TF600T.
I want to summarize what I've learned and hopefully you can benefit from it.

Useful Notes:
1. You can restore your TF600 even if you forgot to make a recovery image. For this, you'll have to use someone else's image. And fortunately, it's available here.
2. You may not be able to use TF600TG or other variant's image on TF600T. How'd you check if you're using a proper image? Just try it! If it's improper your device will simply refuse to boot with a certain error code. I spent a week to figure out I was using a wrong image! The tricky part is that you'd still be able to enter recovery mode even with a wrong image!
3. The USB drive that you want to use for recovery has to have GPT partition, and formatted to FAT32 filesystem. I personally used GParted on Linux for this. How'd you check that you do this properly? Try getting into USB recovery mode. If you can't, probably you messed up.

Different modes:
1. Normal Mode:
a. Push power button
2. USB Recovery Mode:
a. Plug in a properly partitioned USB drive that has a proper image
b. Push vol-down button when powering on the device. Hold the vol button down until ASUS logo is shown. Note that if you do this correctly, you'll get to a screen where you select language. If you don't see this, maybe you have problem with your USB drive or the image on it.
3. Recovery Mode:
a. You can only go here if you have a proper installed OS
b. Push power button
c. Wait until you get to login screen
d. Press and hold shift, click power button icon, and select restart

(3) is useful if you have a working operating system and also a recovery image specific to it. In this guide, we'll be using (2) to restore the device.

Steps:
1. Download the image that apatcas generously provided:
http://www.alexpatcas.com/vivort.rar
2. Prepare a recovery USB drive
a. The image from (1) is 4.2GB, so you need at least that much of space
b. Format and partition your drive as GPT. If you're using Linux, I suggest using GParted. Instruction is as follow:
i. Open GParted
ii. Select your USB drive from the dropdown on top right.
iii. Select "Device" -> "Create partition table" -> "GPT"
iv. Format the partition to FAT32 filesystem
c. Extract and paste the image from (1) onto the drive. You should see "boot", "sources", and "efi" directories on the top-level directory.
3. Prepare partitioning script to be run on your TF600T "USB Recovery Mode"
i. Save the script below as "X:\recovery.txt", where X is your USB drive

select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary size=350
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
assign letter="T"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
create partition efi size=260
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary
shrink minimum=3072
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery image"
assign letter="R"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
list volume

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4. Enter "USB Recovery Mode" on your TF600T
5. Select English, select "Troubleshoot", select "Advanced", and select "Command Prompt"
6. Type: "diskpart"
7. On diskpart terminal, type: "list volume".
8. Remember the letter for your USB drive, on this tutorial, we'll refer to this as "X".
9. Quit from diskpart terminal by pressing "ctrl+c"
10. Format and partition your TF600T properly. Type: "diskpart /s X:\recovery.txt" (Note: replace "X" with your USB drive letter)
11. Flash the image on your USB drive onto your TF600T:
i. Type: "dism /apply-image /imagefile:X:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:W:"
(Note: replace "X" with your USB drive letter)
ii. Grab a cup of coffee or two while waiting.
12. Fix your TF600T partition table
i. Type: BOOTREC /FIXMBR
ii. Type: BOOTREC /FIXBOOT
iii. Type: BOOTREC /SCANOS
iv. Type: BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD
v. Type: bcdboot w:\windows
13. Exit the command prompt. Type: "exit"
14. Boot to windows normally! Enjoy!

Let me know if you have any question.

To give credits to the original posters, I'm quoting their original posts:

apatcas said:

Here's the VivoRT recovery files for anyone who wants them.

To get this working you will need to create a recovery drive from Windows RT. It will still create the USB recovery system even if you do not have the recovery partition files on your C drive anymore.

So what you want to do is create the recovery then unzip the files and copy them to the USB replacing the files there.

That's it! You should be able to boot and use the recovery.

http://www.alexpatcas.com/vivort.rar

Hope that helps. And if it does hit the thanks button.

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chathu60 said:

Windows 8.1 to 8 RT downgrade and recovery

Yesterday i was successfully unlock my vivotab rt tf600tl tablet. i got unlock code from att&t company.
I request code from at&t.
when i got my unlock code i try to unlock by using windows right hand side panel.
But i was failed many times. my tab was upgraded to windows RT 8.1, and I uninstalled the AT&T AllAccess before upgrade. but i couldn't install at&t allaccess. then i downgrade my tablet by using my windows rt recovery disk(usb).
when i try to recover then i got Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing.
then i delete all my partitions and put fresh windows rt installation to my tablet.

these are my steps:if anyone want any help?
1. Boot up from the recovery USB drive and go to the command prompt (after choosing "Troubleshoot" -> "Advanced options" -> "Cmd line").
2.at the command prompt, enter the following (note that this will give you a 32 GB Windows partition and a big user data partition; the data partition can be omitted if desired):
---------------------------------------------------------------------
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary size=350
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
assign letter="T"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
create partition efi size=260
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary
shrink minimum=3072
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery image"
assign letter="R"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
list volume
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you can type above commands in notepad and save it as recovery.txt
Then run it like so: diskpart.exe /s recovery.txt in command prompt.
you will get full partition tablet

3. Now you should be out of Diskpart but still at the command prompt. Copy the recovery images to the recovery partition. Your recovery USB will probably be drive C, and the images will be several Install.Wim files in the Sources directory. Copy them to drive W. Like this:
dism /apply-image /imagefile:C:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:W:\

this will get some times to copy your recovery image.
4. You are still in command prompt then type below command one by one
BOOTREC /FIXMBR and press Enter.
BOOTREC /FIXBOOT and press Enter.
BOOTREC /SCANOS and press Enter.
BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD and press Enter.

if last command not success then try
5.Copy the boot files to the System partition:
bcdboot w:\windows

6.then exit from command prompt (use exit command).

7. At this point, Windows will boot up, but will look funny. You can now do a Reset Your PC without getting the message about a missing partition, and everything will be back to normal!

if any one want my recovery disk(windows rt asus vivotab rt tf600tl) please reply.
Good luck.

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If anyone has the recovery files for the surface, i can host those too. Just PM me.

Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing.

Windows 8.1 to 8 RT downgrade and recovery

Yesterday i was successfully unlock my vivotab rt tf600tl tablet. i got unlock code from att&t company.
I request code from at&t.
when i got my unlock code i try to unlock by using windows right hand side panel.
But i was failed many times. my tab was upgraded to windows RT 8.1, and I uninstalled the AT&T AllAccess before upgrade. but i couldn't install at&t allaccess. then i downgrade my tablet by using my windows rt recovery disk(usb).
when i try to recover then i got Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing.
then i delete all my partitions and put fresh windows rt installation to my tablet.

these are my steps:if anyone want any help?
1. Boot up from the recovery USB drive and go to the command prompt (after choosing "Troubleshoot" -> "Advanced options" -> "Cmd line").
2.at the command prompt, enter the following (note that this will give you a 32 GB Windows partition and a big user data partition; the data partition can be omitted if desired):
---------------------------------------------------------------------
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary size=350
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"
assign letter="T"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
create partition efi size=260
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="S"
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary
shrink minimum=3072
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign letter="W"
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery image"
assign letter="R"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
list volume
----------------------------------------------------------------------
you can type above commands in notepad and save it as recovery.txt
Then run it like so: diskpart.exe /s recovery.txt in command prompt.
you will get full partition tablet

3. Now you should be out of Diskpart but still at the command prompt. Copy the recovery images to the recovery partition. Your recovery USB will probably be drive C, and the images will be several Install.Wim files in the Sources directory. Copy them to drive W. Like this:
dism /apply-image /imagefile:C:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:W:\

this will get some times to copy your recovery image.
4. You are still in command prompt then type below command one by one
BOOTREC /FIXMBR and press Enter.
BOOTREC /FIXBOOT and press Enter.
BOOTREC /SCANOS and press Enter.
BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD and press Enter.

if last command not success then try
5.Copy the boot files to the System partition:
bcdboot w:\windows

6.then exit from command prompt (use exit command).

7. At this point, Windows will boot up, but will look funny. You can now do a Reset Your PC without getting the message about a missing partition, and everything will be back to normal!

if any one want my recovery disk(windows rt asus vivotab rt tf600tl) please reply.
Good luck.

Only TF600TG Drivers:

http://freakshare.com/files/w4e7up2r/asus-tf600tg.inf_arm_5cbdd132d002a018.zip.html (Drivers)

Full TF600TG Recovery

https://mega.co.nz/#!xwJ0EK5Y!GXe_JzrEtJJHEWLUcTcgDBHsjbhKVbexKVSYqQHsc4E (Full Recovery Dump)