I fear twice a reboot cleared the Recovery data from new in place upgrades where the installer had incorrectly created the recovery folder behind an existing empty one and put the data in the...

It was MiniTool Partition Wizardthat showed it empty on reboot as did 7zip that was to copy winre.win that was to enable me to sort it out as Pentagon said.

I replied to this and being dyslexic needed to correct things. Every time I opened to edit it deleted the post. So now back home will do a reply on the PC!

The problem I found was two fold
1/ The...

I have worked out what goes wrong. A reboot cleared the folder with the recovery files so nothing there to copy. I did a reinstall and the same happens so have just hidden the update I have spent...

Sorry I am both a bit lost and my wife has steem coming out of her ears so will have to go. The only 2 in windows recovery are ReAgent and ReAgent_Merged I will have to come back to this tomorrow as...

Do I need to copy files to copy back

It come up with Have copied it to system32/recovery

I know that feeling

Its my error again! II do another reinstall will that sort it? My wife is wanting me to leave this now

After the reinstall there were two partitions there one after windows with nothing in and the original one I created for recovery which the reinstall had added the data. My silly idea was to merge...

that gets and looks like I ended up merging?

says system can not find the fie specified

Sorry back The update failed on my laptop after the w10 reinstall. I took it I needed to make the Partition even bigger so did that but no good as reagentc /enable comes up as its no found. There...

Thanks running a in-place upgrade been faster in the first please! Never done it on this laptop so probably worth doing anyway. thanks for help

That’s now created it, no Winre.wim R:\Recovery\WindowsRE. Also though I have a old MS media USB cant find it on that either. KB5034441 Now comes up as install but fails.

Would copy from another...

Sorry failure again is

Thanks but how do you copy it to the created recovery or will the update creat it?

john7
cmd (admin)
diskpart
sel disk 0
create partition primary size=1024 ID=0x27
format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery"
assign letter="R"
exit
Your Recovery Partition is there!

I did ask before but was very poor at doing so so will ask if my conclusions as right. I have an old laptop (only used for basic photo editing when away) originally with W8. As far as I know no...

I know the feeling!

One of my old laptops, originally running Windows 8, had never had one as far as I know. I certainly never removed one and its clearly not there now. Hid the update to get rid of it .

Hidden update so not a problem now. Thanks for all the help and sod MS and there stupid updates

My error I uploaded the wrong screenshot

Worth using reagentc /enable

Minitool doesn't see a recovery Recovery partition ?403244

Sorry totally my error it was the desk PC disks I attached original , took image of them all which was an error!

So laptop doesn't...