Can I restore a single partition?
Hi
I made the silly mistake of deleting one of the recovery partitions on my C drive.
If I'm unable to restore, or use a workaround,
would it be possible to clone the drive, reinstall windows, and just restore just the main partition.
Mohammed, you image appears to show a recovery partition 450MB at the left side of the image?
Try opening an Administrator level Command prompt window then type:
reagentc /info
and see if it says your Recovery Environment is enabled / valid?
You only need one Recovery partition on your drive unless you have an OEM partition to allow restore back to a Factory image for the PC, i.e. from Dell, HP etc, but those are normally around 10 - 20 GB in size when present.
Example of running the reagentc /info command.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: f613c408-ab3e-11e9-ac1c-a86daa71efa2
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Hi
Here is the result of the reagentc /info command.
Looks like I did accidentally delete the Recovery Environment
As for repairing
I also put this question on Microsoft's own forum, and someone there advised me to wait until the end of April when it's expected that a New Feature Update will be released and which should fix the missing partition, as long as I leave it untouched
and to only use the Repair Upgrade method as a last resort.
You have options.
1. Use Acronis Disk Director to undelete the partition. This works well as long as the deleted partition hasn't been overwritten.
2. Redirect Windows to use the old Recovery partition at the front of the drive.
Steps:
a. Assign a drive letter to the Recovery partition at the front of the drive. Lets say F:
b. Open a command window as administrator and issue the following commands:
reagentc /setreimage /path F:\Recovery\WindowsRE
reagent /info
If it works you should see that WinRE in Enabled.
c. Remove the drive letter assigned in a. above.
The next time you get a Windows 10 upgrade in 3 months or so, Windows will recreate the missing Recovery Partition at the end of the drive. This will happen if you use step 2. above or just elect to do nothing and wait 3 months.
Thanks
I think I'll wait the 3 months for the next windows 10 upgrade, I've never really used recovery, so I think I should be ok until then.
Quick question though
Is there a difference between the 2 recovery partitions, it's odd to me that windows would create two of them.
Since it was a full fresh install on a new drive.
The first Recovery partition at the front of the drive was created when Windows was first installed. Then when you got a Windows upgrade, that partition was too small because the new version of WinRE became bigger. Microsoft left that partition alone and created the second (larger) Recovery partition at the end of the drive.
Starting with Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft places the Recovery partition at the end of the drive on a clean install. Then it won't be necessary to create a new one in the future. They finally learned their lesson after all these years.