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Factory Reset Windows 10 without user intervention
I've looked for this answer online and have come across the "systemreset -factoryreset" command which works, but it comes up with the prompt asking if I want to keep my files or remove everything, I ...
Hi.
You are trying to run the script with not enough privileges. The needed WMI methods can only be invoked with SYSTEM privileges. Membership in "Administrators" is not enough.
To execute a PowerShell script manually with SYSTEM privileges, you can, for example, use psexec.exe from Microsoft Sysinternals:
PsExec - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs
Place the .exe file and the .ps1 file in the same directory and execute psexec.exe with administrative privileges the following way (replace the paths as necessary):
C:\Scripts\psexec.exe -accepteula -S powershell.exe -command C:\Scripts\wipe.ps1
Another way, which you can do remotely and without psexec (group policy for example), would be to create a scheduled task running as SYSTEM and executing the script. You can then execute the task on demand or with a time/date schedule.
dretzer I realized the computer I was running it on didn't have a recovery partition so even running the "systemreset -cleanpc" command wasn't working.
Kaseya allows you to run scripts as System - so even though I was running locally in picture - I was trying as System most of the time.
Thanks for the help either way.