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Trying to recover a Windows System Image from a Network Drive on a NAS.

  1. I clicked System Image Recovery tool from the Windows 7 System recovery Options dialog on startup.
  2. The Selected "Select a system image" -> Advanced -> Search for a system image on the network.
  3. Said "yes" to Connect to the network, got no errors.
  4. However on entering the network folder, \\\server\share1\… Recovery did not find any folder.
  5. Using the "Command Prompt" option ran netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 192.168.1.19 255.255.255 192.168.1.1 and got an error "The interface is unknown".
  6. Interface is fine as I can list it using ipconfig /all or netsh interface ip show config.

Since The network IP address is not setup, I can see why the recovery tool never is able to browse to my network share.

I did try executing wpeinit first as some users have reported success with netsh after wpeinit. But no dice on my Windows 7 box.

Any clues on how to get the network connected to from Windows 7 Recovery options?

Kamil Maciorowski
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Before you run the netsh command, run wpeinit. Example:

X:\windows\system\wpeinit
X:\windows\system\netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 192.168.1.19 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.254

This assumes your mask is /24 and default gateway is .254, change as necessary.

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