Windows 10: Recvry Envrn options different from recovery disk Recvry Envrn options

This is peculiar

I have an HP laptop that came with windows 8.1 that got subsequently upgraded to windows 10 following which it has got further updated to the present 1803 (Home Single language)

I have booted into recovery environment on my laptop but holding the shift key and pressing the restart option. I viewed all the recovery environment options including windows recovery and system image recovery along with startup repairs, command prompt and use a device etc
However, when I made a recovery USB drive from the options in control panel and used it to boot into windows Recovery Environment I got HP recovery option in place of windows recovery which in turn called up an HP recovery management console and system image recovery also led to the HP recovery management console. This console is useless to me as I have also deleted the HP recovery partition and reclaimed that space understanding that I would never really roll back to windows 8.1.

why are these recovery environments different and are they being called up from different recovery partitions ??

:)

 

How does Windows boot to advanced recovery option e.g. command prompt?

- that gives me a 454 'Unexpected error' This tells me that the BCD is partially corrupted.

The commands: shutdown.exe /r /o /f /t 00
or: %SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c reagentc /boottore&shutdown /r /f /t 00
should boot into Recovery if everything is configured correctly.
FYI, If Windows is configured correctly:

• If Reagentc is disabled, you still can get into Recovery but with limited options.
• If Reagentc is enabled, you'll get all options.
• If you boot Windows using Recovery USB stick, You'll get into Recovery with couple of options missing.

Here's my suggestion if you want to try:
OPTION 1: Will save the trouble of re-install Windows.

• Download the image of my first 3 partitions (450MB Recovery, 100 MB EFI partition, and 16MB unformatted primary)
  EFI_Boot-00-00.7z - Google Drive
• Run Macrium and restore the image from step 1, overwriting your existing 1st three partitions, leaving C alone.
• Delete the 490MB Recovery partition.
• From Macrium, run fix boot problems.
• Reboot. Open Admin command prompt then run Reagentc /info to make sure that it is enabled. If not, enable it.
  if failed to enable, reboot and try again.

OPTION 2: Assuming you've already had Windows backup with Macrium.

• Wipe out the first 5 parttiions. (450MB, 100MB, 16MB, C Drive, 480MB)
• Fresh install Windows 10
• Restore C drive from backup image, run fix boot problems
• repeat step 5 from OPTION 1 above.

 

Recovery Disks

Hi Ron,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

In order to create a recovery disk, follow the steps below:

• Type “Recovery” in search box and press Enter.
• Select the option to create a recovery disc and follow the prompts to create a recovery disc.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to
write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

What should I have as backup-a RECOVERY disk or a REPAIR disk? Are these the same or different?

Got the free upgrade to Windows 10 and I need to start making some kind of a Repair/Recovery disk.

Are these the same thing? Are they different?

Can someone list the steps needed to make this/ these disk (s)?

Thank you.

Barbara