Windows 10: 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 partitionCOPY C:\mount\Windows\System32\Recovery\winre.wim R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ 4.

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Recreate WinRE files on a new recovery partition?

Folks, I updated my hard drive and somehow overwrote my recovery partition. I thought it would be easy to create a new recovery file...but I'm stumped. I've read about 2 dozen threads on reagentc and esd files and am not sure where to go. Here's my current version:

Disk manager looks like this:

You can see that I've created a 1.0GB partition on my C drive for the recovery environment. It's Disk 4, Partition 4. Running sfc /scannow shows no errors. Running reagentc /info yields this:

I'd -really- appreciate a bit of guidance. I've got a Win10 install USB drive. Where do I go from here? Thanks! - - - Updated - - - ...more: Mounting my USB install media (drive G) shows an install.esd file.

Running dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:G:\sources\install.esd in an elevated command prompt gives:

That shows a version of 10.0.19041.3636 (and the Win10 Home is at Index 1). My system info shows I am running version 10.0.19045.3930. These are different versions. I downloaded the install media a week ago. Is it "close enough"? Do I need a different version that is closer to my running version? Thanks.

 

How to recreate the Windows recovery partition.

Can I recreate the recovery partition in the 499-MB unallocated space below?

I have asked him a question there.

I have no image to recover it from.

I have no money to buy it.

 

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?