Recovery Partition (or lack of it) problem

Another day, another system. The one I asked about the other day where I deleted the Recovery Partition I fixed by running an in-place install. This one hasn't created the partition

History - upgrade from Windows 7 Ultimate, Start Button not working, in fact no COM+ applications work at all. Did a System Reset (keep data, reinstall all applications). Now there's an un-allocated area of 449MB at the back of the installation partition, and no reserved recovery partition.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition2\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: fa44c611-473a-11e5-94d6-9d19efb7da27
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

Which to me says it thinks the recovery partition is there (???)

Layout on MBR disk is

System reserved - 102MB
Wiindows Install - 418GB
Unallocated 449MB

Now how to fix this?
Thanks
Dave

perdrix said:

Now how to fix this?

Everything is OK.

Windows RE location is either a Windows 10 installation partition or a recovery partition.

Technically I'd agree with you - but the whole point of the recovery partition is that you don't store WinRE on the boot drive in \Recovery\WindowsRE.

I'm currently re-running the installation after issuing a reagentc /disable and deleting the Recovery directory, in the hope that it will do the decent thing and actually create the recovery partition.

Windows Tech Support were less use than a chocolate tea pot - basically saying they wouldn't help me build the recovery parition and that I needed to reinstall Windows 7 and start over. They also tried to claim that installing from media (DVD/USB) rather than the upgrade application "wasn't supported".

Dave

Success! Here's what I did:

1. reagentc /disable, delete the \Recovery directory and also the winre_backup_partition.marker file from the root of the installation drive.
2. Re-size the windows partition back to its original size, followed by a chkdsk /f
3. Re-run setup.

Recovery partition now created. Though there must be an easier/quicker way.

Dave

perdrix said:

Success! Here's what I did:

1. reagentc /disable, delete the \Recovery directory and also the winre_backup_partition.marker file from the root of the installation drive.
2. Re-size the windows partition back to its original size, followed by a chkdsk /f
3. Re-run setup.

Recovery partition now created. Though there must be an easier/quicker way.

Dave

I take this was done via the Command Prompt?

I've been trying to find out information about this, but can't. I've read that W10 was going to do away with the Recovery Partition, but when installing W10, a recovery partition was created.

This 450MB Recovery Partition was created by W10 and I don't know what it does.

How can I test to see if this Recovery Partition is working correctly?

Thank you?

nosecureboot said:

This 450MB Recovery Partition was created by W10 and I don't know what it does.

How can I test to see if this Recovery Partition is working correctly?

- Right click on the Start button and select the "Command Prompt (Admin)" option.
- Type (or copy and paste) the following commands.

diskpart
select disk 0
list partition
exit
reagentc /info