How to use a Non bootable Factory image after SRS6 is restored

Sorry if this has been asked before but I wanted to know what steps I need to take to get my nonbootable factory image back working after reinstalling SRS6. Do I need to copy it to the recovery folder with a linux USB or is there a button in SRS6 recovery?

God willing I just want to use my nonbootable image to make a bootable image and make my laptop back to normal.

Edit: I Have read though the popular Samsung threads. What I understood is that it can be done but I don't know how to get it done or maybe I don't understand what I need to do to get it to work. Currently the nonbootable back up lives on my external hard drive.

This is what I plan to do God willing.

install admin tools-

use recovery to create bootable backup from nonbootable back up that is on external harddrive-

install bootable backup-

use recovery in desktop to make bootable backup from nonbootable back up-

install bootable backup-

use recovery to recover to factory settings to make sure everything works.-

God willing I just want to make it so what I did never happened(which is why I want to reinstall it a few times to make sure versions are consistent) =(

Thank you friends

edit 2: I basically found a thread that says my non bootable factory image is useless and will never be able to be used as an initial or factory image. Is this true? if so could someone please confirm.

I don't know why but something deep down inside hurts me knowing I wrecked the recovery and factory settings. Even though I got rid of most of the stuff when I first used my pc and even though some of it was annoying, I feel bad that its gone. I feel like I broke my computer even though all that's gone is just the recovery with bloatware. I always mess with and reformat computers. Something about doing it this time feels different. Perhaps some nostalgic feeling that came with memories from the past or the fact the computer was a gift from a few years ago makes me feel this way. I honestly thought nothing of it when I first destroyed it. Now that it's gone I feel like I'm going to cry and I don't know why.

Perhaps I will use the files Dosibox(thanks comrade) gave us to make the recovery back up Windows 8.1

 

I decided to mess with my non bootable back up just so I could learn about it. I don't know If I will use it again but its interesting. For example I learned about .wim files. The non bootable backup has two files. wincloninit.srs and install.wim.

Install.wim can be opened with 7zip and just contains things from the default c drive. Which is good if need to grab something from it

no idea what wincloninit.srs does.

I was wondering what happened when the initial image is replaced in SRS6. The default image would take you back to setting up user names and stuff. What about when you replace it? Does this also take you back to setting up user names and things of that sort?

Or does it take you back to the desktop from when you first made the new init?

Also what kinds of files are created when an SRS6 init is made? (I really dont need to know this part just curious(I did want to know if they use the .srs extension))

Thanks friends.

 

I have answered my own question and the thread can be deleted(sorry for clogging up the feed) I will go ahead and post my answer just in case its useful to someone.

I just found out Windows has this thing called audit mode(I might be the only one in the dark about this). If an initial image was saved in audit mode then the recovery should boot to the windows installation screen. However if you saved the initial image after the user was created then the recovery will boot to the users desktop.

 

@BobSwat: I certainly wouldn't want to delete this thread or your posts. They are relevant questions and belong in this forum.

The innards of Samsung Recovery Solution is a somewhat esoteric topic which only few people have dug into. And that is among a community of Samsung users which is already quite small (not nearly as big as Dell or Asus). So a few days' delay in getting responses to your posts is to be expected.

I understand your frustration with having lost your SRS6 factory image -- or rather, ben unable to restore it -- although you aren't losing anything completely irreplaceable, as you pointed out yourself.

I don't know a way to turn a non-bootable factory image backup into a bootable one. But you can create a new SRS installation on the disk using Admin Tool, restore your non-bootable factory image (to get a factory Windows installation), then create a new initial image of that installation.

I am afraid I cannot give you the detailed steps for this with SRS6, both because I only have SRS5 on my Sammy (and there are significant differences) and also because it is now a long time ago since I did these things myself.

The best resources I can point to are the two links in our Samsung Forum Sticky list (on top of the Samsung forum). You may have already studied them, but I am copying them here for your convenience (and that of others who may see this):

Backing up and re-creating Samsung Recovery Solution
Guide: Samsung Recovery Solution 6 (SRS6) and Windows 10

The latter is @Gulfmaster's guide and thread on re-creating SRS with Win10, which also applies to Win8.x, and which has become our new go-to resource for SRS6 advice.

As I mentioned in your other thread, having a wiped computer is the best possible time to investigate and explore these things without risking to lose valuable data. I realize that's what you have already been doing

 

I have decided to no longer pursue this as I realized I will just use the .wim file to get what I need and I will always end up updating my pc anyway. Maybe I will use the recovery software for some other thing God willing.

If anyone does wish to use the original factory image saved on a non bootable backup I believe you can do it this way.

Restore back up

Boot into Audit mode after recovery (you can just finish the setup and boot in as a user but y do that?)

Save initial image.

Thanks good comrades