How to Find Location of Recovery Image used to Reset Windows 10
If you're having problems with Windows 10 on your PC, you can try to refresh, reset, or restore it.
When you reset your PC, it will remove everything and reinstall Windows 10 to start over completely with a clean install.
When you reset Windows 10 you may be prompted to insert or connect your Windows 10 installation media or recovery drive if there is an issue with the default Windows image or if there's not an OEM factory recovery image present.
If you create a reset recovery image, it is used instead of your OEM recovery image, installation media, or recovery drive for a push-button reset of Windows 10. A reset recovery image is basically like having your installation media always connected and ready to use to reset your PC with.
This tutorial will show you how to find and see the location of the currently registered reset recovery image you created in Windows 10.
You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial.
Here's How:
1 Open an elevated command prompt.
2 Copy and paste thereagentc /info
command Into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshots below)
3 If there is currently not a reset recovery image registered, then you will see this below to the right of Recovery image location.
It'll only show a location for Recovery image location if you created a custom reset image. Otherwise, Windows will use the default image in the C:\Recovery folder that's only listed for Windows RE location.
4 If there is a reset recovery image registered, then you will see this below to the right of Recovery image location showing you the full path of the folder containing the install.wim file registered as the recovery image.
It'll only show a location for Recovery image location if you created a custom reset image. Otherwise, Windows will use the default image in the C:\Recovery folder that's only listed for Windows RE location.
To help make sense of the location path above, you can open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc).
Looking at the displayed path above, the ResetRecoveryImage folder is saved to partition 1 on hard disk 1. In this example, partition 1 on hard disk 1 is the F: drive.
This gives you the full path as F:\ResetRecoveryImage.
5 When finished, you can close the command prompt if you like.
That's it,
Shawn