Windows 10: Why can't I enable the recovery environment?

I have a winre in my recovery folder. But I cannot enable the environment using the reagentc /enable command.

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Missing Recovery Environment

Hi Alan,

Here is a link containing several useful suggestions to help you recover Windows 10. Since the error message that you got tells you to insert your Windows installation or recovery media. We suggest the perform the steps listed under
Use a recovery drive to restore or reset your PC or you can also follow the steps under
Use installation media to restore or reset your PC. Please see the link below for more details:

Recovery options in Windows 10.

Regards.

 

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 partition

COPY C:\mount\Windows\System32\Recovery\winre.wim R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\



4. Set GUID for the partition to mark it as "Recovery" type (0 is for main disk)



diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

list partition

select part 4

set id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC



5. Disable WinRE (in case the "online" WinRE is already enabled)

reagentc /disable



6. Set the WinRE image



reagentc /setreimage /path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\



7. Re-enable the WinRE environment



reagentc /enable



8. Doublecheck if the WinRE is active:



D:\iTunes>reagentc /info

Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration

Information:



Windows RE status: Enabled

Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE

Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: f15f803a-0bde-11ef-a1bf-f622ec6acd69

Recovery image location:

Recovery image index: 0

Custom image location:

Custom image index: 0



REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.



9. Remove the letter from volume:



diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

list volume

select volume 4

remove letter=R



10. Doublecheck again if the WinRE is active:



D:\iTunes>reagentc /info

Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration

Information:



Windows RE status: Disabled

Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE

Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: f15f803a-0bde-11ef-a1bf-f622ec6acd69

Recovery image location:

Recovery image index: 0

Custom image location:

Custom image index: 0

What am I doing wrong? I really appreciate any help you can provide. Thank you so much!

 

Unable to access Windows Recovery Environment normally

Some entries in the bcd for the recovery environment is either corrupted or missing. To fix the problem, you;d need to rebuild the entries for the recovery environment.
Here's the steps:

1. Turn on folder options to show hidden files/folders. Open admin command then type: reagentc /disable
   - This will move 2 files from the recovery partition reagent.xml and winre.wim to C:\windows\system32\recovery
2. If you have the Windows 10 ISO, double click on it to mount to a virtual cd/dvd else If you have the Windows 10 USB then navigate to Sources folder and look for install.esd or install.wim.
3. Use 7-ZIP to open install.esd or install.wim, select and index. eg. 6 then navigate to Windows\system32\recovery. You'd see 2 files: Winre.wim and reagent.xml.
4. Remove everything from C:\windows\system32\recovery (ie. your current winre.win and reagent.xml)
5. Copy the new winre.wim and reagent.xml from the install.esd/install.wim to C:\windows\system32\Recovery
6. From admin command, type: ReAgentc /enable

Reboot to recovery. This will also fix the problem with shutdown /r /o