Lenovo Factory Recovery with ImageX

Hi,

My Lenovo W520 Toshiba HDD crashed. I'm trying to recover the machine to factory state from a Acronis image i made. On this image there is the Q:\ Drive with the Factory Lenovo Images Cdrivebackup.wim and Srivebackup.wim. I mounted the volume with Acronis and copied the .wim files to the third Partition on the new SSD i want to install in my W520.

I haven't made the Recovery Disc from Lenovo. But I thought about applying the Images i have with the WinPE ImageX command.

I build the WinPE on my Workstation C20 just to boot into WinPE and install the Lenovo Images already in the SSD.

The Image System is 64bit WIN7 Pro.

I tried both WinPE 64 with the following command line:

copype.cmd amd64 c:\winpe_amd64

copy c:\winpe_amd64\winpe.wim c:\winpe_amd64\ISO\sources\boot.wim

copy "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\amd64\ImageX.exe" c:\winpe_amd64\iso\

Oscdimg -n -bC:\winpe_amd64\Etfsboot.com C:\winpe_amd64\ISO C:\winpe_amd64\winpeamd64.iso

xcopy C:\winpe_amd64\iso\ . /e M:\

and i also tried the 32bit version with the following command line

copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86

copy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim

copy "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86\ImageX.exe" c:\winpe_x86\iso\

Oscdimg -n -bC:\winpe_x86\Etfsboot.com C:\winpe_x86\ISO C:\winpe_x86\winpex86.iso

xcopy C:\winpe_x86\iso\ . /e M:\

All the files are present in my "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\amd64"

and in the "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86" Directory as well.

The ImageX is booting and i can go to the command window inside WinPE.

after the diskpart action

select disk 1

select volume 1

format quick fs=ntfs label="System_DRV"

assign letter=S

active

select volume 2

format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows7_OS"

assign letter=C

select volume 3

format quick fs=ntfs label="Lenovo_Recovery"

assign letter=Q

I tried to apply the images from the Q-Drive with the following commands

imagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Sdrivebackup.wim 1 S:\

imagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Cdrivebackup.wim 1 C:\

BUT......

I always get the error:

the subsystem needed to support the image type is not present.

Am I missing sth or is something wrong with the command line?

Any suggestions? Please Help!

regards

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