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If you bought a pre-built system or a laptop, you might have seen a factory reset option which resets Windows 10 to its factory built state. Using the recovery partition, you can easily restore Windows when it is corrupted or cannot boot. Let me show you how to create a Windows 10 recovery partition of your own in simple steps.
Aug 3, 2021 · Check the current state of your Windows recovery: reagentc /info. Create an empty 1GB partition in the end of your system drive. You might need to shrink your previous partition to free some space. If Windows Disk Manager would be unable to shrink it, use GParted live USB.
Jan 26, 2024 · Here are the instructions to modify the partition size of the WinRE partition. Reinstalling Windows WILL NOT solve this problem, as the default size (522MB) of the WinRE partition, will remain smaller than the update that resolves the BitLocker security vulnerability requires (250MB)
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- Manually resize your partition by 250 MB
Microsoft has changed how it updates PCs that run the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). WinRE will be updated using the monthly cumulative update. This change only applies to PCs that get updates from Windows Update (WU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). This change starts on June 27, 2023, for the Windows 11, version 22H2 cumulative update.
Some PCs might not have a recovery partition that is large enough to complete this update. Because of this, the update for WinRE might fail. You will receive the error message, "Windows Recovery Environment servicing failed.” To help you recover from this failure, this article provides instructions to manually resize your recovery partition if you get a system ErrorPhase of 2. This requires your device to have the recovery partition after the OS partition. Use the steps below to verify this.
1.Open a Command Prompt window (cmd) as admin.
2.To check the WinRE status, run reagentc /info. If the WinRE is installed, there should be a “Windows RE location” with a path to the WinRE directory. An example is, “Windows RE location: [file://%3f/GLOBALROOT/device/harddisk0/partition4/Recovery/WindowsRE]\\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE.” Here, the number after “harddisk” and “partition” is the index of the disk and partition WinRE is on.
3.To disable the WinRE, run reagentc /disable
4.Shrink the OS partition and prepare the disk for a new recovery partition.
5.To shrink the OS, run diskpart
6.Run list disk
Jul 3, 2021 · An outline of what we need to do: Get the contents of the recovery partition off the working device. Put them on the device with issues - on the recovery partition if it's big enough, otherwise a standard partition will work. Tell Windows where to find the recovery files and enable it. Test!
Feb 26, 2022 · When restoring Windows from this custom recovery partition, Windows is updated (as it was when image was captured), containing all pre-installed software, user accounts and user data, device drivers, custom settings like themes and so on. This tutorial will show how to create your own custom recovery partition.
May 10, 2016 · How to: Create a Recovery Drive for reinstalling Windows 10. This is very important if you need to perform a startup repair after carrying out the following instructions. Here is what you need to do. Step 1. select the D:\ drive 888.67 GB partition. Right click it then click Delete.
