Windows 10: In winre Windows recovery environment, the first execution of cloud PBR will prompt "unable...

In winre Windows recovery environment, the first execution of cloud PBR will prompt "unable to download".

The related network card driver has been loaded into winre, but it still can't succeed for the first time.



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Questions regarding the Windows Recovery Environment partition (WinRe)

The integrity of your OS as regards booting normally isn't in question.
Without the Recovery partition you lack the option to boot to Safe Mode and similar modes.




The other recovery function you lose is so-called automatic repair- Windows attempt to fix things when it detects you can't boot. In practice this rarely seems to help.

You also lack the convenience of being able to boot to
- Startup repair
- Command Prompt
- System Restore

However you can still boot from a Win 10 install medium and thus access the last 3.

 

PBR Image J

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

As you have recently upgraded to Windows 10, ensure to install any pending updates on the system and remember to restart the computer to check the status.

PBR Image drive and WINRETOOLS drive are the recovery partitions and contain the recovery image (PBR Image) and Windows Recovery Environment tools (WINRETOOLS). The reason why it is showing in red is that this drive had got very
little free space. They are important for recovering the system in case of a software issue and should not be deleted.

The PBR and WINRETOOLS drives are provided by Dell. I would suggest you to create a recovery drive. Follow the steps given in the link below.

Create a USB recovery drive

Create a USB recovery drive

Note: Also applies to Windows 10.

Hope the information helps, if you have any further queries, feel free to post. We are here to assist you.

 

Questions regarding the Windows Recovery Environment partition (WinRe)

These questions may be plainly obvious to many. However before now I have never copied partitions to a new drive and am approaching all of this from a position of ignorance.

I recently installed a 250gb mSata SSD into my laptop meant to boot the operating system while the preexisting hard drive will be used handle the bulk of the laptop's storage.

I reduced my Hard Drive down to 50gb and then made a system image backup as a precaution in case things went wrong. When this was done I used a program to copy the drive to the mSata. Afterwords I removed the older Hard Drive with the intentions of reformatting it before putting it back into the laptop. I have yet to reformat the older Hard Drive.

Everything boots fine on the new drive, however the new drive is missing the "WinRe" Windows Recovery Environment partition which is used to provide certain recovery and troubleshooting options for Windows 10. Without that partition I cannot access the recovery environment or make a recovery drive. Yet nothing short of a full Windows reinstall seems to be able to recreate the WinRe partition.

I have an old 2013 version of Office provided by my College that I am trying to keep and am not keen on reinstalling the OS.

So my questions are as follows:
Is there anyway to restore the WinRe partition in a current Windows 10 installation without a full reinstall?

What are any potential future problems if Windows 10 does not have access to the WinRe partition?
Is there an adequate replacement with the same functionality as the Windows Recovery Environment if I am unable to restore it?