Problem Moving the Recovery Partition

In a VM, I recently moved the recovery partition to facilitate certain updates. I used the following instructions which I got from StackExchange and another thread in this forum.

reagentc /disable

diskpart
sel disk 0
create partition primary
list partition
(Find # of the new partition.)
select patition #
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery"
assign letter=R
exit

Dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:C:\recovery-partition.wim /Index:1 /ApplyDir:R:\

reagentc /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE
reagentc /enable

diskpart
select volume R
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
remove
exit

Everything seems to have worked. (I created a restore point to test it.) The only problem is that the new partition is visible as R:, and if I remove the letter from the partition, reagentc becomes disabled, and reangentc /enable doesn't enable it. Is this fixable, or should I just live with it the way it is.

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Pentagon said:

Reagentc /disable
In C:\Windows\System32... rename it as WinRE.wim
reagentc /enable

Check the BCD entry
ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume4]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim ?

Are you saying that I should copy the .wim file I created to Systen32 or that I should rename the DrtmAuthTxt.wim file? I created the .win file by using DISM on the original recovery partition, following these instructions. diskpart - How to move the recovery partition on Windows 10? - Super User

For the problem with the KB5034441 update, I didn't move a partition but resized the largest down by 1GB less then extended the 4xx-5xx GB partition giving it more that 1GB total which then let the update install.

SIW2 said:

That is an interesting way of doing it.

why capture the original partition as a .wim and then apply it ?

I can see it might possibly be of use if trying to combine oem recovery partition and ms recovery partition.

I didn't know how to get a winre.wim file until earlier today.

Anyway, it seems to be working, but the System Properties dialog looks weird with a visible "Recovery" folder.