Hi, I recently recovered my laptop from a major issue where it wouldn't boot. All system recovery tools failed each and every time (reset, restore, disk check etc) however I luckily managed to recover the laptop by using a couple of BCDEDIT commands via the command prompt to repair the boot config. That's just background info, the real issue is this; I went about checking why all recovery options failed, in case I need the options in future. From powershell, I ran a command to see what partition my Windows Recovery Environment is on (using reagentc /info). Info was returned saying "Win RE status: Disabled". When I used the command to enable it, it threw up "Windows RE image was not found".
Diskmgmt does indeed show my recovery partitions are empty, with 100% free, I don't know why there are two, a small partition and a larger one. [Funnily enough, when I was having the boot issue, the Win RE WOULD appear, it's just that all options within it failed.] I have googled and some options for the Win RE are to create a recovery USB, or recovery partition using the Windows installation CD (I don't have one as the PC was preinstalled with an earlier Windows version which I upgraded to Win10 online when released). So my question is: how can I go about getting the recovery image back onto the partition where it once was? The Windows Media creation tool only seemed to allow the tool to be created on a USB or CD. Has anyone had a similar problem? Also, if it's just not possible to restore WIN RE onto its former partition, I presume I can use the space on that partition? Thanks in advance!
TLDR; how can I restore Win RE to its former partition if it has disappeared?
Diskmgmt does indeed show my recovery partitions are empty, with 100% free, I don't know why there are two, a small partition and a larger one. [Funnily enough, when I was having the boot issue, the Win RE WOULD appear, it's just that all options within it failed.] I have googled and some options for the Win RE are to create a recovery USB, or recovery partition using the Windows installation CD (I don't have one as the PC was preinstalled with an earlier Windows version which I upgraded to Win10 online when released). So my question is: how can I go about getting the recovery image back onto the partition where it once was? The Windows Media creation tool only seemed to allow the tool to be created on a USB or CD. Has anyone had a similar problem? Also, if it's just not possible to restore WIN RE onto its former partition, I presume I can use the space on that partition? Thanks in advance!
TLDR; how can I restore Win RE to its former partition if it has disappeared?