Can’t designate partition as recovery partition

I am following the instructions in another thread on how to recreate the recovery partition in the command line utility diskpart:

Code:

create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="winRE"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"

The last instruction gives me this error: “The specified type is not in the correct format.” Looking in the help file for the create partition primary command it states: “Recovery partition: de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac”.

What is wrong here?

Is your disk gpt or mbr?

Personally, I don't mess with recovery partitions. I enable the recovery environment without creating a partition for it and it resides in C:\Recovery.

How to check if a disk uses GPT or MBR.

diskpart
list disk
exit

You'll see a table listing your connected disks. If a disk is GPT, it will have an asterisk (that's a * character) under the "Gpt" column. If it's an MBR disk, it will be blank under the Gpt column.

GPT

diskpart
select volume c
shrink desired=1000
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs
set id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
list partition
exit

MBR

diskpart
select volume c
shrink desired=1000
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs
set id=27
list partition
exit

This is the GPT checK

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 0 Online 476 GB 0 B

I can’t get that to format right.

This is the command:

set id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC

This is the error:

The specified type is not in the correct format.
For more information on the command type: HELP SET

I see now that the disk is a MBR disk.