Question How is my recovery partition recognized by Disk Management?

[vx_johnl]

The recent widespread KB5034441 update problem was caused on my Windows 10 computer by Windows Update being unable to identify my Recovery partition. The Microsoft community website was useless, as generally happens, but I found useful ideas here on Tom's Hardware. Eventually I used Reagentc to point to the location of WinRE.wim in what I could recognize as my Recovery partition, and then it (Reagentc) could successfully enable the Recovery mechanism. Then Windows Update could successfully complete the KB5034441 update.

However, I notice that while Disk Management shows my Recovery partition as Healthy (Primary Partition), I had seen in a helpful Youtube video from Chris Titus that a Recovery partition apparently should be Healthy (Recovery Partition). Is this correct? If so, what is it that causes Disk Management to recognize a Recovery partition and to label it as such?

 

[dwd999]

The recent widespread KB5034441 update problem was caused on my Windows 10 computer by Windows Update being unable to identify my Recovery partition. The Microsoft community website was useless, as generally happens, but I found useful ideas here on Tom's Hardware. Eventually I used Reagentc to point to the location of WinRE.wim in what I could recognize as my Recovery partition, and then it (Reagentc) could successfully enable the Recovery mechanism. Then Windows Update could successfully complete the KB5034441 update.

However, I notice that while Disk Management shows my Recovery partition as Healthy (Primary Partition), I had seen in a helpful Youtube video from Chris Titus that a Recovery partition apparently should be Healthy (Recovery Partition). Is this correct? If so, what is it that causes Disk Management to recognize a Recovery partition and to label it as such?

The Recovery Partition has to be the last partition on the drive. All of mine are labelled Healthy (Recovery Partition) just as they were created during the windows installation.

 

[USAFRet]

The recent widespread KB5034441 update problem was caused on my Windows 10 computer by Windows Update being unable to identify my Recovery partition. The Microsoft community website was useless, as generally happens, but I found useful ideas here on Tom's Hardware. Eventually I used Reagentc to point to the location of WinRE.wim in what I could recognize as my Recovery partition, and then it (Reagentc) could successfully enable the Recovery mechanism. Then Windows Update could successfully complete the KB5034441 update.

However, I notice that while Disk Management shows my Recovery partition as Healthy (Primary Partition), I had seen in a helpful Youtube video from Chris Titus that a Recovery partition apparently should be Healthy (Recovery Partition). Is this correct? If so, what is it that causes Disk Management to recognize a Recovery partition and to label it as such?

Please show us your Disk Management window.

 

[TerryLaze]

Here is a list of all the ways to get into recovery, try it and see, if it works and gets into recovery do you really still care what the partition is called?

7 Ways to Boot Into the Windows Recovery Environment

The Windows Recovery Environment can help you fix booting problems. Here are several ways to view the WinRE screen and start troubleshooting.

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