Find Reset Recovery Image Location in Windows 10  

Brink said:

Hello Typhoon, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

This is normal when you haven't created a custom recovery image.

If you like, you can verify if the default recovery image works by performing a "Refresh Windows" using the method in the tutorial below, and see if you get a prompt for installation media at step 6. If you don't, then the default recovery image is good.

Just be sure to cancel the refresh at step 8.

Refresh Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

Oh, I can boot into it myself. I was just concerned that it wasn't prompting me or coming up at any point on its own. I guess that answers my question though. Thanks for letting me know!

After an in-place upgrade from 8.1 to 10, I ran "reagentc /info" ...

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The install.wim in the Recovery image location was for 8.1... so I replaced it with the Win10 1809 from an iso I pulled from Microsoft. Is that all there is to this?

Yes... and I deleted the other files/folders in that OEM Recovery partition apart from the RecoveryImage folder that was on the location path. That partition is 20GB. Does it need that? Can I shrink it to what it takes to hold the wim file, or does the wim file extract in that same partition. Or am I simply confused?

Brink said:

Hello Telos,

You could delete the one for Windows 8.1 if you like, but you would need to use the method in the tutorial below to create a reset recovery image for Windows 10.

Create Reset Recovery Image in Windows 10 | Tutorials

Didn't I essentially do that? Rather than issue the command...
reagentc /setosimage /path "location\ResetRecoveryImage" /index 2 (for me "Home")

I simply placed the Win10 install.wim in that location that the Recovery image was already pointed to (after I deleted the 8.1 install.wim).

Brink said:

In that case, it may be best to clean install Window 10 when able.

Clean Install Windows 10 | Tutorials

Thanks. I'll save that option for a rainy day. I'll keep the install.wim along with the base set of ASUS drivers I have for this unit on its own partition.

FWIW, I exlorered one of the other OEM partitions (I have 3) and found WinRE present with file dates that matched the day of my Win10 upgrade. Interestingly (to me anyway) is that reagentc shows WinRE disabled, with no location. Should I give "reagentc /setreimage" a shot followed by "reagentc /enable"?

Seems harmless in my situation.