Recreate WinRE files on a new recovery partition?

Folks,

I updated my hard drive and somehow overwrote my recovery partition. I thought it would be easy to create a new recovery file...but I'm stumped. I've read about 2 dozen threads on reagentc and esd files and am not sure where to go.

Here's my current version:



Disk manager looks like this:



You can see that I've created a 1.0GB partition on my C drive for the recovery environment. It's Disk 4, Partition 4.

Running sfc /scannow shows no errors.
Running reagentc /info yields this:



I'd -really- appreciate a bit of guidance.

I've got a Win10 install USB drive.

Where do I go from here?

Thanks!

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Mounting my USB install media (drive G) shows an install.esd file.



Running dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:G:\sources\install.esd in an elevated command prompt gives:



That shows a version of 10.0.19041.3636 (and the Win10 Home is at Index 1). My system info shows I am running version 10.0.19045.3930.

These are different versions. I downloaded the install media a week ago. Is it "close enough"? Do I need a different version that is closer to my running version?

Thanks.

@Bree,

You nailed it!



Thank you! (I had a bit of an issue copying the files from the install usb to my C drive. 7-zip showed "copy" but I got an error message. Instead, I left-click-dragged the files from the expanded 7-zip to the C drive and all is good.)

As you can see, my reagentc /info shows the recovery files are in the recovery partition.

Again, thank you.

Bree said:

Open the install.esd with 7-Zip file Manager. Extract the WinRE.wim (the Windows Recovery Environment windows image file) and ReAgent.xml and place them in C:\Windows\System32\Recovery. You can now run the command reagentc /enable. This should move WinRE.wim to the recovery partition, sometimes though it may not be able to use the existing recovery partition and will put it in C:\Recovery\WindowsRE instead. Either way, it will add the recovery path to the BCD and you'll be able to boot to advanced startup again. You can see where it has put WinRE.wim by running reagentc /info again.

Dears,

Hello from me as well! It's been 3 hours I'm fighting with this whole morning and this thread was the only simple and legit guide I saw. I see it helped some people but not me unfortunately.

I have the file Winre.wim extracted in the right place but still I cannot enable the recovery and I don't have a path to it. Any clues what might be wrong?

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