While playing with Macrorit Partition Expert, I inadvertently deleted the Windows recovery partition.
It is possible to recreate/recover the partition without having to do the following?
1) Clean Install Windows 10
2) Repair Install
3) Refresh Windows 10
4) Reset Windows 10
5) Buy MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro
Hi, options:
a. Recover the partition from your recent disk image which of course included all partitions comprising Windows (E.g. created using Macrium Reflect)
b. DIY - instructions here:
recovery partition
NavyLCDR just deleted and recreated the Windows recovery partition in this thread:
Need to Reset Windows 10 Dual Boot (no recovery environement found)
see post #41.
He may be available to comment.
You could try a partition recovery program. The older minitool partition recovery v5 is free for personal use, and can be found on the net. I have found that Aomei partition assistant is better, but iirc the Aomei partition recovery module needs pro version.
Or you can recreate it, it isn't particularly difficult.
These are additional methods that can create a new recovery partition.:
1) Windows custom install
2) Windows upgrade using the upgrade assistant:
19H1 > 19H2 or 20H1 or 20H2
19H2 > 20H1 or 20H2
20H1 > 20H2
20H2 > 21H1 (when available)
3) Command line:
diskpart
sel dis 0
sel vol D:
shrink desired=700
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="winRE"
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
exit
reagentc /enable
Thank you for your reply.
Advice on tenforums is so often given to use disk imaging.I have no image to recover it from.
Then use one of the set of manual instructions you've been given
- amongst which was option (b) in my post.
- look out for a giveaway e.g. list updated daily:I have no money to buy it.
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Code:Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Try the new cross-platform PowerShell https://aka.ms/pscore6 PS C:\Windows\system32> REAgentC /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Disabled Windows RE location: Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 562f507e-413a-11eb-bfdb-e0d55ecc65a3 Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful. PS C:\Windows\system32> REAgentC /disable REAGENTC.EXE: Windows RE is already disabled. PS C:\Windows\system32> DiskPart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.610 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: DESKTOP DISKPART> List Disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 465 GB 499 MB * Disk 1 Online 7388 MB 0 B Disk 2 Online 3781 MB 1024 KB Disk 3 Online 28 GB 8 MB Disk 4 Online 28 GB 0 B DISKPART> Select Disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> Detail Disk ST500DM002-1BD142 Disk ID: {035E2069-D591-48E4-A788-02F723C69431} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 1 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C01T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : Yes Pagefile Disk : Yes Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : Yes Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 2 C Windows 10 NTFS Partition 80 GB Healthy Boot Volume 3 D Data NTFS Partition 384 GB Healthy Volume 4 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System DISKPART> Create partition primary DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. DISKPART> Format quick FS=NTFS label="Recovery" 0 percent completed DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect. See the System Event Log for more information. DISKPART>
I am now running Windows PE, on which DiskPart has encountered no error.
Code:Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.30] (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. X:\windows\SYSTEM32>DiskPart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: My_PC DISKPART> List Disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 B * Disk 1 Online 28 GB 8 MB Disk 2 Online 28 GB 0 B Disk 3 Online 7388 MB 0 B Disk 4 Online 3781 MB 1024 KB DISKPART> Select Disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> Detail Disk ST500DM002-1BD142 Disk ID: {035E2069-D591-48E4-A788-02F723C69431} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 1 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C01T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 1 C Windows 10 NTFS Partition 80 GB Healthy Volume 2 RAW Partition 499 MB Healthy Volume 3 D Data NTFS Partition 384 GB Healthy Volume 4 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy Hidden DISKPART> Select Volume 2 Volume 2 is the selected volume. DISKPART> Format FS=NTFS quick label="Recovery" 100 percent completed DiskPart successfully formatted the volume. DISKPART> Detail Disk ST500DM002-1BD142 Disk ID: {035E2069-D591-48E4-A788-02F723C69431} Type : SATA Status : Online Path : 1 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C01T00L00) Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 1 C Windows 10 NTFS Partition 80 GB Healthy * Volume 2 Recovery NTFS Partition 499 MB Healthy Volume 3 D Data NTFS Partition 384 GB Healthy Volume 4 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy Hidden
The hidden recovery partition contains the WinRE.wim
If recovery partition does not exist then C:\Recovery is used instead -
when you use > Reagentc /enable
the winre.wim is moved and registered as long as "windows/system32/recovery/winre.wim" exists
using Reagentc /disable moves the winre.wim back into the windows folder and unregisters it
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