Windows 10: How to repair WinRE Recovery.

I have just upgraded to Windows 11. When I test the recovery system I can boot into it. It offers the start up settings option, but on "reboot" returns to the previous page. It does not reboot to the Startup options page which allows me to choose options such as 1 debugging, 4 Safe Mode etc.I have tried a re-install; dissecting WinRE.wim from the Windows 11 ISO and replacing the one in System32/Recovery; re-enabled WinRe with the reagents command successfully from elevated CMD. All without success. What Am I doing wrong?

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Failure to apply update due to recovery partition issue?

My suggestion would be to:

1) Disable WinRE

2) Delete partitions 4 and 5.

3) Extend the C drive to utilize the unallocated space (minus 750 MB)

4) Create a Recovery partition in that 750 MB unallocated space.

Step 1:

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To disable WinRE, run:

• reagentc /disable
  

Next, check if winre.wim has been moved to the c:\windows\system32\Recovery folder. To do so, run:

• dir c:\windows\system32\Recovery /a
  

Please post the outputs.

 

Recovery. Your pc or device needs to be repaired

Hi,

To address your concern, we suggest that you run the Windows Startup repair. To do that, follow these steps:

• Using you installation media, access the Windows recovery environment.
• Select Troubleshoot
• Choose Advanced option
• Choose Automatic Repair or Startup Repair.
• Once done, your system will restart.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Recreating and enabling the recovery environment (WinRE) from a recovery partition

I am trying to recreate my Windows recovery partition, and everything works until the end, but the agent shows as disabled right after I remove the letter that was assigned to the partition in order to execute the commands.

Here's the full recipe:

1. Select recovery partition and assign letter R: to it.



diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

list partition

select part 4

assign letter=R



2. Create WinRE directories in the partition:



mkdir R:\Recovery\

mkdir R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\



3. Copy the Winre.wim image to the partition

COPY C:\mount\Windows\System32\Recovery\winre.wim R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\



4. Set GUID for the partition to mark it as "Recovery" type (0 is for main disk)



diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

list partition

select part 4

set id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC



5. Disable WinRE (in case the "online" WinRE is already enabled)

reagentc /disable



6. Set the WinRE image



reagentc /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\



7. Re-enable the WinRE environment



reagentc /enable



8. Doublecheck if the WinRE is active:



D:\iTunes>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: f15f803a-0bde-11ef-a1bf-f622ec6acd69

Recovery image location:

Recovery image index: 0

Custom image location:

Custom image index: 0



REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.



9. Remove the letter from volume:



diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

list volume

select volume 4

remove letter=R



10. Doublecheck again if the WinRE is active:



D:\iTunes>reagentc /info

Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration

Information:



Windows RE status: Disabled

Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE

Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: f15f803a-0bde-11ef-a1bf-f622ec6acd69

Recovery image location:

Recovery image index: 0

Custom image location:

Custom image index: 0

What am I doing wrong? I really appreciate any help you can provide. Thank you so much!