Unfortunately, the Winre.wim file is not located directly on the setup media, but hidden within the "install.wim" file. If neither the recovery partition nor the WinRe.wim file exists, the file can be copied from the Windows setup media: Get the recovery partition from the Windows setup DVD. Conversely, the contents of the recovery partition can be written from the partition to the file with the command: "reagentc /disable". The command: "reagentc /enable" in the command prompt uses the file WinRe.wim and fills the recovery partition with it. If the recovery partition is not present, the content is normally located in the file: c:\windows\system32\Recovery\WinRe.wim. If the recovery partition is missing, only the following 2 options are displayed in the Advanced options - Troubleshoot menu: The recovery partition can be loaded via Restore / Advanced Startup and "Restart now", among others:
Missing recovery partitionĪ look into the Disk Management, shows the partitions, Disk 0 has only one EFI system partition and the C drive:
This post is also available as a video, see: Youtube video. If the partition gets lost unexpectedly, it can be recovered from the Windows setup media. To summarize, here's how it works with the recovery partition: As long as the partition is still there, it can be deactivated and written to a file. So far not bad, Windows works without recovery partition, but in case of an error the partition helps to get the PC up and running again. When cloning a large hard disk to a smaller one, I lost the recovery partition.
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