I'm deploying some Lenovo ThinkPads for a small organisation. I want a simple recovery option if a user munges up their system. Luckily, they come preconfigured with the windows recovery partition which includes an option to restore from backup. Unluckily, the partition has no backups to restore from, so if a user messes up their system, we have to reinstall from scratch. It would be much nicer if we could point them to the restore backup option.
It's been a long time since I've administered a Windows System, so I'm re-acquainting myself with the "joy" of finding windows documentation.
I believe I've found the answer here: http://www.howtogeek.com/167984/how-to-create-and-restore-system-image-backups-on-windows-8.1/
But if I understand correctly, the image I create will have to be saved to the recovery partition.
The recovery partition is hidden and not mounted, so I cannot specify it as a destination by drive letter (eg F:)
Reading the documentation for wbAdmin, it seems I can also specify the destination by UUID. But I cannot discover how to find the UUID of the partition.
Any help?
I'm open to other solutions that don't involve the process in the How To Geek article.
The key thing is I want users to be able to boot into the windows recovery partition (which is easy and already figured out) and be able to select a working backup (as stated, we currently have no backups available for them to choose from).