Question How do I return WinRE to the default Recovery partition?

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I moved WinRE to a manually created 2BG partition in an attempt to give it more space and fix the error caused by the KB5034441 update, but I'm still getting the same error despite the fact "reagentc /info" shows that WinRE is actually in the 2GB partition, not in the 516MB partition, which is the default one.

I think the problem will be solved, if I use the default Recovery partition and extend its volume. So now, I'm thinking about moving WinRE back to the default partition, but I'm encountering problems.

When I enter this in CMD:

"reagentc /setreimage /path \\?? \GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition5/Recovery\WindowsRE"

...I get an error message saying WinRE can't be moved and that I need to use the command "RETAIN" to make the partition able to accept WinRE. But this can't happen, because the partition is GPT, not MBR, and RETAIN is only for MBR partitions.

WinRE has to be moved from partition 4 to partition 5, the default one.

If you need a photo of Disk Management, you can see it here: https://i.postimg.cc/cCdmrnnq/IMG-20240115-225036.jpg

Please, help, this is a problem I'm trying to solve for more than a week and still can't find a solution.