Add Recovery Partition to Windows 10 Boot Menu?

Yes, you can. I just tried it. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard and EasyBCD.

In MiniTool Partition Wizard, assign a drive letter to your recovery partition. I used X:. Also use the explore feature to find the .wim file in the recovery partition. My path was \Recovery\WinodwsRE\Winre.wim.

Then I used EasyBCD to a new WinPE entry. I manually entered the path to the .wim file: X:\Recovery\WinodwsRE\Winre.wim

Then I removed the drive letter again from the recovery partition in MiniTool Partition Wizard.

I don't know if there is any advantage to this or not, but that's one way you can do it.

From EasyBCD:

There are a total of 3 entries listed in the bootloader.

Default: Windows 10 Pro
Timeout: 3 seconds
EasyBCD Boot Device: R:\

Entry #1
Name: Windows 10 Pro
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \WINDOWS\system32\winload.efi

Entry #2
Name: Windows 10 Home
BCD ID: {fcaab809-8717-11e6-843d-aa73efa5da58}
Drive: E:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.efi

Entry #3
Name: Recovery
BCD ID: {fcaab814-8717-11e6-843d-aa73efa5da58}
Device: [\Device\HarddiskVolume1]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim
Bootloader Path: \Windows\System32\Boot\winload.efi

EdTittel said:

Thanks, NavyLCDR! I was planning to try it out this weekend but you beat me to the punch. You realize this also means you can create a partition, mark it active, and put Kyhi's recovery environment on it, and so forth.
--Ed--

I did that a long time ago, except I have UEFI computers so there is no active partition. I created a 5GB partition at the end of my hard drive. I extracted a standard Windows 10 installation ISO file to it. I replaced boot.wim in the \Sources folder with the boot.wim file from Kyhi's recovery tools. Then added that boot.wim file to the boot menu.

As you stated, that way when I screw up my Windows installation to the point it won't boot, I can boot into Kyhi's recovery tools and either restore a Macrium Reflect backup image, or re-install Windows with a clean install. I can also run setup.exe from that partition from inside my running Windows 10 to do an "in place upgrade" repair install.

Finally, when the new Creator's Edition upgrade comes out in April, the way I will install that is to extract the ISO file to my custom recovery partition (have to replace Kyhi's boot.wim file again), and run setup.exe from there for that.

One more thing too, this also puts Kyhi's Recovery Tools as an option in my UEFI firmware boot menu, so even if I manage to wipe out my system partition, I think and hope I would still be able to boot into recovery stored on the hard drive. I'm going to get adventurous and try that next. Delete my EFI system partition and see if I can still boot into Kyhi's recovery stored on my hard drive to restore it from a backup image.

So I just tried it.

Deleted the EFI System Partition. Computer booted into Kyhi's recovery tools automatically on next boot.
Used Macrium Reflect Free to restore the EFI system partition. Computer rebooted into Kyhi's recovery tools again.
Rebooted the computer into UEFI setup and I had to move Windows Boot Manager back to the top of the boot list.
Computer rebooted back into my normal Windows boot menu!

Default ramdisk without EMS checked.