Windows 10: Reset Windows 10 even if Recovery Partition is (accidentally) deleted

I bought my device with Windows 10 as pre-installed OS. Due to *careless* activity, I accidentally deleted the recovery partition of the hard disk. If some day I wanted to do a Windows 10 reset, will the reset process be failed?

I wanted to order for recovery disk from my vendor but they only provide media for Windows 7 pro and using this recovery option will downgrade my device and I cannot use windows 10 without having to buy another activation key (correct me if I am wrong here).

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Windows 8 won't upgrade to 10

I have been unsuccessful. I tried to perform a computer reset and accidentally deleted a required partition. I will recover the computer using a recovery disc and try the update after that.

 

C Drive partitions

Hi Steve,

To answer your question, it is not advisable to remove EFI system or Recovery partition.
Deleting EFI system partition will cause installed systems unbootable.
It is usually protected and locked by the Windows to prevent and avoid accidental deletion of these partitions.

Let us know if you have additional questions.

 

Hi,
1. You can freely get Win 10 installation media. You can download any version's iso and, using MS's media creation tool, create bootable Win 10 installation media.

See the Tutorial section- search for iso- or search the web.

2. You can undelete deleted partitions. Try a good partition manager.

Example:

 

The partition was deleted long time ago because I accidentally overwritten the partition. I guess recovering the partition would be useless now...

 

Plus, when I try to boot from windows 10 iso, there is no more 'reset this pc' option (like it used to be....) or probably I overlooked it

 

One option is this:
1. Create full disk images e.g. using Macrium Reflect (free) + its boot medium + external storage
(Everyone should use disk imaging to recover from disk corruption, failure & replacement, unbootable PC, user mistakes routinely- highly recommended here).

2. Wipe your disk and clean install Windows (same version)

3. Replace the Windows partition with that from your disk image

4. Run startup repair.