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How to pick the "right" Windows Recovery
Hi everybody,
I have Windows 10 v.1703 Creators, but when I start Windows Recovery (Restart+shift key) and open the command prompt,
I get a There are no administrators message.
If I create a Recovery USB Drive (with recoverydrive.exe on the same system), boot from it and go to the RE command prompt,
the Ver command shows "Version 6.3.9600" which is Windows 8.1.
Fact is, it was originally a Windows 8 system upgraded to 10, then to the Anniversary Update, then to Creators.
On disk there are 2 WinRE partitions:
A: 900 MB, second partition on disk just after the small "System" partition.
In the "Recovery" directory, there is a winre.wim file dating back to 2014!
B: 788 MB, at the end, after the OS partition.
Winre.wim file has date april 2017.
To be clear, diskpart lists as follow:
partition 1: SYSTEM 100MB
partition 2: WinRE A 900MB
partition 3: MS Reserved 128MB
partition 4: OS (Windows10 C: ),
partition 5: data (I created this data partition, very recently, after shrinking C)
partition 6: WinRE B 788MB
It's UEFI GPT.
reagentc /info says Windows Recovery is at ...\partition2\Recovery\WindowsRE.
Seems to me that Windows created a new WinRE somewhere along upgrades, but picked the "wrong" partition, the original one.
Question: how do I set Windows 10 to use the other, possibly "correct", Windows Environment?
Thanks!