No Recovery Partition

antares said:

Hi all, just noticed that my Windows 10 installation lacks a Recovery Partition as can be seen in the attached screenshot. Is it advisable to have one? And if so, is there a safe way of creating one? I found instructions here. I assume that after it's created it will be placed to the right of the OS (C:) partition, or should it be located in first place (to the left of the EFI System Partition)? Thanks

Use the free program Minitool Partition Wizard to shrink the C:\ drive by 1 GB, so you end up with 1 GB unallocated space on the far right end of Disk 0.

Then, open a command prompt as Admin and run this command... reagentc /enable

Post back with the results.



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The recovery partition is only really needed if you want to reset your pc.

Yoy can do this fron a windows installation usb, or clean install.

Before you go through hoops and loops, winre.wim may be on C drive. It does not need to be in a separate partion (except if using bitlocker).

Run an admin cinnand prompt and run

Code:

reagentc /info

If it says enabled you do not need a separate partition

If it says disabled, try enabling it.

Code:

reagentc /enable

If it enables, then you do not need to go any further.

Mine, default installation:

antares said:

So what's the purpose of enabling?

I updated my previous post, check it out, I think better create it in a USB drive so not to mess up with my main drive.

These are not equivalents.

Having a recovery partition
- provides 'automatic repair'
- Advanced Startup options (boot to command prompt 'outside' Windows, System Restore, boot to Safe Mode, Startup Repair)

Some but not all of those are available if you boot your PC from a Win 10 bootable disk, and hence to Advanced Startup options as provided by that.

Tutorials are available for all this with pictiures illustrating everything in the searchable Tutorials section.

A USB recovery disk is very limited.

Ensure you are using 3rd party disk imaging regularly and routinely, complemented by System Restore.

antares said:

Hi cereberus, after running the reagentc/info command it says "Windows RE Status: disabled". So then you suggest enabling it. Will enabling it create the recovery partition? Any risk doing this?

I thought the recovery partition is useful in cases that the OS is not starting up.

UPDATE: Found these steps outlined by JoeR in the forum to create a Bootable USB Recovery Drive in Windows 10

As I said try enabling it. That tells us if you have winre.wim in C partition or not.