Windows 10: Two recovery partitions, but one is mostly empty.

I've got two recovery partitions, one at the end of the drive and one near the beginning. The one at the end of the drive is the unlabeled 5th partition and has/Recovery/WindowsRE/Winre.wim in it which loads up the recovery environment. You can see that in this screenshot of MiniTool Partition Wizard:



If I run reagentc /info in the Windows Terminal, you can see Partition 5 is my active Windows Recovery partition:


Windows Recovery Environment Windows RE and system reset configuration

Information:


Windows RE status: Enabled

Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition5\Recovery\WindowsRE

Boot Configuration Data BCD identifier: 30493f7c-1068-11eb-8139-3c6aa79fff19

Recovery image location:

Recovery image index: 0

Custom image location:

Custom image index: 0


REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.


Partition 3 near the beginning of the drive is labelled Recovery but it's mostly empty as can be seen in the following screenshot of MiniTool Partition Wizard:





Clearly this is a remnant of something though and I want to restore it if possible. Based on the following post, it seems thatinstall.wim from installation media should be on this.


https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update-winpc/two-recovery-partitions-on-a-windows-10-install/2e08201c-fa4b-4fda-9a86-e5b34bbe2689


If so, which directory should it be in? Are there any other files I need? How should I go about transferring install.wim? I know that I can mount in the Windows Recovery environment, but I'm not sure if I can see files on these partition types or not. Would appreciate some clarity from someone who is knowledgeable in this area.

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How To: Create recovery partition.

it worked when i copied all the files of the disk to the recovery partition i created, but i had to use WinPE tab to add the entry.

Type: WIM Image (Ramdisk)
Name: Recovery
Path: Z:\Sources\boot.wim
and hit Add Entry
I tried it in VirtualBox and it worked.
At first, it would add a second "Windows 7" entry to the list, but when the installation is finished, the old one is deleted. (I formatted only C: partition)

 

Lost recovery partition

Hello, I see that you are having issues with recovery partition. I would suggest you using the diskpart command in the command prompt. First, open up the comand prompt as an administrator, then type in diskpart. Now, type in list disk, and look for the
recovery partition drive. Follow the steps in the link below:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-fo...

Hope this helps, and let me know if you have further questions!

 

Recovery Partition in Windows 10.0

Hello,

To create a Recovery Partition, follow the steps below:

• Click Start menu.
• Type Recovery then choose Create a recovery drive.

Plug in an empty USB stick and follow the instructions that will be shown on the screen.

Regards.