Can I Delete These 2 Recovery Partitions?

I upgraded to 1903 about 2 weeks ago (6/17) and I've notice that I now have two recovery partitions.

Neither of them is enabled.

There is a Recovery folder on "C" but its empty.

One of the recovery partitions was created on the day of the upgrade and appears to be well formed.

While I realize that I really don't need either of them because I keep updated Macrium images, as a learning experience how would I go about enabling the recovery environment on Partition 3?

Hi, you should be able to assign the appropriate recovery partition by
Assign a drive letter (e.g. R) to that recovery partition, then use this:
reagentc /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE

then
reagentc /enable

then check with
reagentc /info

then remove the drive letter.

Another option is, after identifying the correct disk and partition numbers, is to use this (where '1' is just an example):
reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE

You can find related threads by searching the forum for a form of the reagent command, for example.

While I realize that I really don't need either of them because I keep updated Macrium images,

Not convinced that's an appropriate reason to not have a Recovery partition- having a bootable Win 10 medium to hand might be more accurate so you can use its Advanced Startup options.

Booting to Safe Mode would remain a consideration.

Restoring images is only effective if you have a more recent image than the date of onset of the problem, and you're happy to overwrite any data on that partition, potentially with an older version- or none.

Hi dalchina and thanks for your response. I tried both reagentc commands and both completed successfully but reagentc /info still shows as disabled. BTW, I do have the latest Win10 installation media that's bootable so I'm probably covered but I am curious what the heck is going on. The most recent recovery partition (partition 3, 490 MB) shows winre.win as 388.58 mb and dated 2019-6-17, the date that I upgraded to 1903. I am very puzzled.

Note: your new recovery is on disk1 and partition3

Code:

reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1\partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE

then

Code:

reagentc /enable

then

Code:

reagentc /info

Post Results...

If you assign drive letters to partition 1 and partition 4
you will see that (most likely) they also contain WinRE

Booting into Win10XPE you should be able to see the contents of those partitions

Kyhi said:

If you assign drive letters to partition 1 and partition 4
you will see that (most likely) they also contain WinRE

Booting into Win10XPE you should be able to see the contents of those partitions

Used MinTool and verified the contents of partition 3 and 4 and they both have winre.wim
Here is the result of reagent:

FYI, I have 3 Dell XPS and all three exhibit this same issue. I have a Dell Inspirion lappy and that has only one recovery partition and that shows as enabled. Hmmm?

My Bad.... Disk 0 not 1

Code:

reagentc /disable

then

Code:

Reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE\ /Target C:\Windows

then

Code:

reagentc /enable

Kyhi said:

My Bad.... Disk 0 not 1

Code:

reagentc /disable

then

Code:

Reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE\ /Target C:\Windows

then

Code:

reagentc /enable

No improvement

Followed by a reboot and same thing. I don't understand why this isn't working. The partition contains the right files.

But I just doesn't work. What the heck?

I assume you have XPE builder...
"Launch" Apps/HDTasks/Bootice
Select BCD Tab and then hit Professional Mode
Post screenshot (include full left pane)

Kyhi said:

I assume you have XPE builder...
"Launch" Apps/HDTasks/Bootice
Select BCD Tab and then hit Professional Mode
Post screenshot (include full left pane)

signing off for the night. Will do first thing in the morning. Thanks for your help.
Bob
UPDATE:

UPDATE: Continued on: Help with BCD Recovery Entry Point Error