How to create a Recovery Partition in Microsoft Windows 10/11

[@Wari]

Great video! One thing I would like to add is that after you recreated the new GPT recovery partition, Windows Disk Management may not recognize your recovery disk properly. To do this, type "gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001" before you leave the diskpart console.

[@haewold.01101]

If those two eyes were deceiving you just how many 0's are there, it's 14 to be exact :D

[@GalazM]

life saver

[@chenmoney1920]

Yes. It works now it shows recovery partition

[@Dino-1177]

it says The selected partition is not a GPT partition. Please select a valid GPT partition and try again. idk what to do i tried a lot of things still ends up saying "The windows re image was not found"

[@nitram419]

@@chenmoney1920 But did you subsequently test the Windows recovery partition...by clicking "Shutdown" from the Windows login screen and then holding down the Shift key while selecting Restart...?

[@amirbahador.developer]

de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac type of recovery partition on GPT storage said in video ❤❤😊

[@bernhardstil6128]

Thank You man - deleted my recovery partition by accident. After following your guide step by step I was able to re-establish it. Thank You again.

[@learnwithbagyafromkgto12th93]

What should I do if the winre.wim is not there even following your ideas??

[@MasudaOfKorriban]

I would suggest in the future make sure the whole screen is viewable, there were times when I had no idea what you clicked on to get to a certain menu because it was offscreen.

[@adeboyegrillo3408]

You're on point. Especially with hex id *de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac* for GPT. It drove me crazy when I cloned a 2TB disk onto a 4TB disk and while trying to realign the recovery partition to the last sectors of the 4TB HDD, the recovery partition got a new id and wouldn't show up as a recovery drive. I had to compare the id of the 4TB recovery partition with the old 2TB HDD and to my surprise, it had changed! Realigning the recovery partition on the new 4TB HDD to the last sectors was necessary to have a continuous ~4TB partition, otherwise, the new 4TB will only have 2TB usable space, with a ~2TB unallocated chunk after the recovery partition. I know there are software like AOMEI... that realign properly without you having to do it manually, I just like to do mine the old fashioned way using cmd and diskmgr.

[@SanjeevKumar-wp1rg]

Your comment made other life easy

[@shouldersofgiants4649]

Thanks for helping me copy paste the hex id easily. And yes, your comment was spot on

[@computerguy3812]

bro thank you for typing that lol .. i was about to be looking at the screen making all kind of typos lmao

[@shill4645]

This was exactly what I was looking for. It gave me the info I needed to resolve my issue - a missing recovery partition due to not copying when cloning an ssd to a new bigger one. I discovered it some time later so did not want to redo the clone as I would have lost recent changes. I was able to copy the recovery files off the original drive and recreate the recovery partition. Very well done! Thanks so much for posting!

[@Niggotha]

bro how please teach me i beg you

[@GamingWithBobNone]

The easiest way would be to use a drive copying/recovery software to duplicate your data onto a larger drive.

[@Vicky-zd3uv]

I move my partition with partition assistant from aomei, it's very convenient compared to diskpart.

[@thenikhilkukreja]

​@@Sahil-vi2logo to advance inside that you will find merge

[@Kamishi845]

This was immensely helpful and it's weird how no other single guide online seems to cover this topic. I had the problem that I bought an NVMe SSD and made a clean Windows install but forgot to remove the old SSD as I did, so Windows did not create any EFI bootable partition nor a recovery one on the new SSD, since it was on the old one. And I did not want to go through the process of reinstalling Windows again as I had already moved a lot of my old data to the new drive since that meant I would have to reinstall all my games and so on again, when Windows was working fine but simply missing these partitions. So in my brain it would be far less effort and easier to simply find a way to recreate them than to do another clean install just for that. So thanks so much for making this simple and foolproof!

[@helixform]

Exactly what I was looking for. I bought a 1TB ssd to replace my 500GB ssd. Used windows system image to recover windows to the new drive, but the recovery partition was blocking me from extending the volume. After deleting the recovery partition I was able to extend to the full amount then follow your video to recreate the recovery partition!

[@throwaway5926]

Gotta love a good tech success story. I use to do this but now I just clone my drives, wipe the old one and repurpose as more storage.

[@nitram419]

Did you subsequently test the Windows recovery partition...by clicking "Shutdown" from the Windows login screen and then holding down the Shift key while selecting Restart...?

[@helixform]

Sorry it's been over a year, I don't remember the exact process, sorry. But I remember that this video solved my problem, good luck!

[@nitram419]

@@helixform Thanks for your reply. So basically you've never used the Windows Recovery Environment. So therefore you don't know whether in a future emergency, that the recovery environment will actually be there to help you -- no?

[@helixform]

@@nitram419 Ok, I see what you are asking. After I deleted the recovery partition, I extended the drive space to the full 1TB, then I created a new recovery partition after that, I haven't used it but it should be there if necessary.

[@arg1632]

For me the Winre.wim file is not there, i followed what you did i just cant find it

[@Snapshot.Geo07]

me too i diden't find it

[@jatinrana1011]

Because you would have deleted recovery file I also did that for a reason

[@n0one266]

The same thing

[@n0one266]

​@jatinrana1011 ok what should i do then?

[@benfll]

​@@n0one266you need to copy it from installation media/installer ISO if it's missing

[@lualgu]

I followed this tutorial right after your RE image video, and worked like a charm! Thanks again.

[@itarmy2778]

You're welcome!

[@BoysenberryCelestial]

I copied everything this guy didn't & ended up in command prompt, choose an account to continue. Wow this video went for ever. Now it's telling me forget your password or don't see your account?👍🏿.

[@hunterjoy4346]

You made this tutorial very clear and plain thank you for your help

[@luis64_gamer46]

I was going to expand my recovery partition and microsoft guide didn't help because it had an error, This helped me creating a new one after deleting the previous!

[@JerryJensen-sf6gh]

A very helpful video and thanks to @Wari for the much needed gpt attributes comment (yes, there are 14 zeroes!). One further issue is that the recovery partition needs to immediately follow the C drive. I had my drive already split into two drives, C and D, and initially put it after the D drive but it doesn't work in that case.

[@tonyulriksen6532]

Thank you! You just saved my skin. It's 2024 and I was resizing my partitions for that Windows update issue and somewhere along the way a crucial step was omitted in creating MBR type partition and I couldn't see it in diskpart.exe. Your video showed me how to set it up in Disk Management tool. Thank you again. Subscribed.

[@everykenyan]

Thank you, no one mentions that you can "set id=27" instead make us use "create partition primary id=27" even ms guide say to format disk after but doesn't specify that disk id will be changed

[@E_Designs]

Thank you for posting this video. It was extremely helpful to me. I upgraded SSD's in a RAID 10 array and encountered numerous problems in the cloning process. Restoring the recovery partition was one of them, and I was able to resolve it by following your instructions :-)

[@dhruvsharma3683]

Thanks for solving my issue i had zero recovery partition leading to not installing my software security updates.

[@alfie2436]

This solution worked flawlessly and your explanation was very easy to follow. Thank you.

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it helped!

[@nitram419]

@@itarmy2778 Have you verified that the Windows Recovery Environment actually works, following your method of manual relocation? eg. Did you try SHIFT+RESTART and then see if your PC boots into WinRE?

[@Cheems_Galaxy]

for GPT disk command: set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac

[@keyiwan5947]

So I both tried macrium and Aomei to do this but only Aomei worked for me, the method in this video is also useful.

[@itarmy2778]

That's great!

[@jonathon_durno]

Thanks so much! This was the only thing that worked after I tried everything else! I copied over my system image from a 256Gb SSD to a 1TB SSD, and the recovery partition was in the way, so I could not extend the C: Drive, resulting in lack of space for system files when I installed new programs. Your solution is the only one that worked, thank you! For anyone wanting to know, I used Niubi partition manager to fix the above problem, only after I had done the steps outlined in this video. God bless

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it helped!

[@nitram419]

But did you subsequently confirm that the Windows recovery partition works ...by clicking "Shutdown" from the Windows login screen and then holding down the Shift key while selecting Restart...?

[@babamotiakii9385]

Very helpful. You just saved me from all my headaches lately.

[@itarmy2778]

Welcome Baba!

[@bladestorm1412]

Thank you! The guide from another channel didn't work properly but your video resolved this for me. Informative and useful video, thanks!

[@harrykonis]

Hi. Video and comments are really great and have helped a lot of people. This tutorial is top class and your work is excellent. But unfortunately before I enabled the transfer to the special partition I used the command reagentc /setreimage path C:\Windows\system32\Recovery and now it stores it WinRe to C:\Recovery\WinRe and not the partition that I created. any clues on how I can reset the changes from /setreimage parameter? Or how I can change the Windows Re location for the target recovery partition because it reports that target partition has not been found. I also have a backup that contains the winRE but I can't find the WinREBCD id number of the recovery partition n order to change the html document that contains the data.

[@UNKNOWNBYTE]

Love your vids man, If only someone made a video like yours years ago, would have saved me the trouble back then 😅 but I'm glad I found ya.

[@itarmy2778]

Thanks for watching!

[@danielcarroll503]

Great Tutorial. If the Recovery Partition is missing, then this is the BEST way to create it whether the Drive is MBR or GPT. If the Recovery Partition is there there is a much easier way to do it by just resizing (extending) the partition using the FREE version of MiniTool Partition Wizard. I have done this on both MBR & GPT disks and it works perfectly. Try it you will like it. :)

[@Александар-д9ю]

Thank you so much. Very easy to follow guide. Wish you all the best.

[@_DirkPitt_]

To know what type of partition the OS is in. 1-Disk Manager. 2-Select where the OS is and right-click-Properties-Volumes and the type of partition appears there.

[@zs3810]

GPT disk command for those who need it to copy & paste: set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac

[@itarmy2778]

Thanks for sharing

[@multitaskingdevansh7257]

1:53 after uncheck the hidden files option ...it is not showing another file "Winre.wim" .. what to do..please help me sir ??

[@chandanpaul5433]

Same mine also not coming

[@black_stark2]

Thank you so much for this video. For some reason, the pc had reassigned the recovery partition to the main one, so I wanted to fix it (I don't even know if that's a bad thing, but I can have a better sleep now).

[@LofiBtz]

Is there any way to disable reagentc on another drive? I’m trying to add a recovery partition to my drive that I cannot boot up on since I deleted it to add 1TB of unallocated space to the main C partition. I cannot access my recovery folder on the drive and therefore cannot see the “Winre.wim” file in ‘System32/Recovery’ folder.

[@EdgardHenriqueRibeiro]

Excellent explanation and tips for who needs to remove winRE partition and recreate it (eg. clone HDD to SSD)

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bobpowers9862]

Excellent, clear instructions. In direct contrast to Micro$oft, I was able to repair my recovery partition using your instructions. The only external info I needed, was where/how to extract the .win file from a downloaded Windows.iso file (use 7zip). Thank you so much.

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it helped. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6jOYYmlYtWpjKs

[@sir-mike-a-lot]

Excellent. Best video i've seen on this topic to date. well done.

[@LeopardGamingYT6969]

It is still showing me partition 1 after doing your step for partition 2?

[@User-m4s2q]

thanks so much bhai it worked... i had accidentally deleted recovery when formatting drive

[@itarmy2778]

Happy to help

[@henrydai4149]

Thank you for the info and detailed explanation. It is exactly what I was looking for, and the contents are really helpful.

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mantyzz_fr8921]

i have no words...it was perfects thank you for the tuto

[@victordrozd6586]

Thank you so much! This is exact solution for my issue with recovery partition

[@rhysboehm9991]

Hi mate, just thought I might reach out. I had follow all your steps. A few things I would like to note to people that I have found. I was using this inside a VM installing server 2022. When you delete the recovery partition be sure to disable the reagentc in command before doing so as the file won't get put into the C:\WIndows\System32\Recovery folder. A question I do have though. I re-created the partition and follow all your steps however I have run into a little bit of a snag and noticed something at the end I go to control panel | Windows updates | Recovery and I am unable to select the option for advanced recovery or unable to use shift restart. Is there a reason for this. Please not am using windows server in a VM environment. Also forced it to go into recovery mode and many options were missing and it was unable to find the recovery drive. All information suggests that the recovery image was on the new partition. Love your video, but please assist. Thanks @wari that extra information was great and another issue I came in to

[@nepulchandrasekara5637]

Thank you so much I have been searching for this info and none of the methods I tried work, but this did thank you so much . all the steps for clearly explained

[@itarmy2778]

You are welcome 😊

[@BoysenberryCelestial]

​@@itarmy2778Your Awesome thanking u👧🏿👍🏿heaps.

[@TS-JungleMonkey]

Thanks for a great help video. My HP Elitebook laptop could not get into the Recovery mode using the F11 key option after I upgraded the M.2 drive to a larger one because it lost the link to that partition. Is it the same issue as this Recovery Partition with Windows 11?

[@reck_px15]

I have by mistake deleted my recovery partition and now I can't find my winre.wim file in my laptop what should I do ??

[@_It_My_Handle]

Same problem if now you have a solution that plz help me 😢

[@noisemagician]

Thanks to you I don't have to reinstal windows.

[@itarmy2778]

Welcome!

[@yngrenx]

thank you so much, finally my error windows update gone. it says C:\windows\system32>reagentc /enable REAGENTC.EXE: The Windows RE image was not found. so i just copy the install.wim from usb bootbale windows and copy to C:\Windows\System32\Recovery

[@Specter_Me]

Hello, I don't have Winre.rim even after disabling and also showing hidden files just like you did on the video

[@manthansarfare2081]

Same here

[@nooux1966]

Same, all I want to do is fucking reset my PC, i'd even be happy buying a Windows code back but apparently it's impossible to reset without going through all this shit.

[@yes4ice]

same

[@Mongoose55babe]

Thank You so much for your tutorial on creating a Recovery partition which I lost during restoring using AOMEI Backupper Standard after a disaster a while ago but wondering how to get back the Recovery partition.Now its done.TQ

[@itarmy2778]

You are welcome Charles!

[@zumrudmammadli6820]

thank you for your effort, a very useful video. I quite struggled to find command for GPT disk and your video was super helpful

[@sudhirmishra6265]

my winre image is not moving to recovery partition4 even after setting proper id and following your method

[@flyingtrashbag]

This video has helped me tremendously. Thank you.

[@itarmy2778]

You are so welcome!

[@DrivelineMaster]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. I had a computer that does not have the recovery partition or the Winre.wim file. Everything went well except this computer did not have the Winre.wim file. I looked up how to extract it from a Win10 ISO file. I did this and copied it to the system32/recovery folder. I made it hidden and then ran the reagentc /enable command. It said it completed sucessfully and the Winre.wim file disappeared from the system32/recovery folder. I rebooted and ran reagentc /info and it said "disabled". What did I do wrong? I tried to enable it again and it just says the RE image file is not found. Can you help?

[@BigDrummer66]

Nice, helpful, lifesaver, timesaver, and very educational with easy word and straight on... TY

[@itarmy2778]

Thanks for watching

[@sandeepnaidu2234]

After i enable windows 11 recovery environment with your turorial, now i want to reset my laptop, By settings>Recovery>Reset>Remove everything (instead of keep my files)>Local install i have a doubt here.. after windows get reset...,Does windows ask me for activation..? or its take my OEM Licence for activation...?

[@ELFD19]

You helped me a lot IT Army😁👍 thank you so so much

[@danielglau229]

thank you so much! Followed the video to recover the winre.wim to recovery folder and this video to regain the recovery part...thx a lot

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it helped

[@OffiziereDann]

it is a crime to not leave the commands ESPECIALLY that long id in the description.

[@ssa7843]

Good explanation. Too bad (after cloning to larger SSD) i get after "reagentc /enable" the operation failed: 3bc3 code. I see that what changed for you was the WinRE Folder. Can i just copy that knowing with the (cloned) WinRE image is, just like your path? Because the line below "Startconfiguration ID" (its a GPT SSD) might need to be adapted for the new SSD as well? Just no idea what value. Update: Fixed it with diskpart and setting "set id=c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b" on the fat32 EFI Boot Partion (meaning its a boot and not just a normal fat32). Funny, because the WinRE partion cared about the boot partition (and the pc already booted normally). Then the reagentc /enable worked perfectly! So strange how boot and WinRE interact!

[@mau_lopez]

Excellent tutorial. Super-clear and just what I was looking for. Thanks so much for sharing it!

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nitram419]

But did you subsequently test that the Windows recovery partition still works...by clicking "Shutdown" from the Windows login screen and then holding down the Shift key while selecting Restart...?

[@sakthir2617]

for gpt use " gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001" after " set id= de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac "step to set up the recovery parition

[@faxizu]

this video is work for me, thanks for the tutorial (sorry for my grammar)

[@kavyasalunke]

What cmd promt u need for recovery. What if pc persistenly rebooting to blank screen but not in recovery environment?

[@ARUNBALAJIJ]

Very Clear and Informative content. Thank You..

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it was helpful!

[@richardvankesteren7013]

All worked well up to the end. I run reagentc /info and I see it is disabled. Then I run reagentc /enable and get "The Windows RE image was not found". What now?

[@kenwynne4729]

Very good, not too fast so you can actually document.

[@FzaeMongol]

It worked - even though I couldn't enable "reagentc". I looked under disk administrator or what it would be called in English (my computer is set to be Danish) and the Partition was called microsoft-something-that-sounded-smart - a name I hadn't given it so I guessed (knew) it worked. Also, I'm not a bot...

[@mohamedwaleed5236]

Mark partition as active greyed out and I don't know what I should do

[@secretegaming4259]

Exactly what i was looking for. thank you for your help

[@itarmy2778]

Welcome!

[@secretegaming4259]

@@itarmy2778 still i am not able to reset PC

[@itarmy2778]

What is the error?

[@eugenek9435]

This video helped me with GPT config. Thanks for inserting that ID

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it helped!

[@Anonymous-mc3pb]

Can you please help me regarding GPT kind partation ?

[@emagdali]

I had to create a bigger partition in order to install a windows update. However, I still have the old recovery partition. How can I make windows point to the new partition when installing a windows update? After I created the new partition and configured it to be a Recovery Partition, now I have two: The small old one and the big new one. I need windows to look to the big one instead of the old one. When I type reagentc/info, I see the Windows RE location path of the old small one. How do I change this to the new big one?

[@itarmy2778]

Delete the old partition or change the ID of old partition

[@RodaRodinha]

You are amazing, you saved me in every way possible(i love you

[@daviddahl83]

There's no Winre file in Recovery even with unhidden files and system files. how to add it?

[@rubyzeng9017]

Thank you for your tutorial, and aomei is really enough for me.

[@itarmy2778]

Great to hear!

[@makbulhossainchowdhury4454]

Im very happy 😊😊😊 now this is what i was looking for thank you so much bro 😊

[@lucasjuniorproducer]

Can i rename a recovery partition, mine i did 1gb but there is no name. Like Recovery partition.. There is only 1GB wrotten. Can i rename it?

[@Chillvibex]

Hi i have a question i wanna reset my laptop, and i saw in setting it has the classic options to keep all ur files or to factory reset the laptop, my question is if i have this (healthy recovery partition) size 1GB in my disk menagement, which i do, will my laptop reinstall window and drivers it self? Or will i mess up everything and end up with my laptop in a boot mode screen? I used to have another laptop which had the option to do all this but at the same time that laptop had another partition lets call it disk D, which had all the drivers stored there, and i suppose they were there for the exact porpose to recover and reinstall them. Now on my current laptop i dont have this disk that contains all the drivers, and thats what scares me haha, i would love to factory reset my laptop but at the same time i dont wanna make a mess :(

[@danielfennock3707]

I use Aomei backup, it's useful to me.

[@shreejithnair145]

How to do it

[@fuljostrujec2845]

Ikr after cloning the system disk i couldn't get the recovery partition to move to the new drive but this man is a blessing

[@fuljostrujec2845]

@@shreejithnair145 basically setting the partition id to 27 makes windows recognize the new partition as the recovery

[@parrayfarming]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5_Ioo2Hidh0eMU Aomei backup

[@beedu898]

hello sir, I loved the video. I had to ask that, what is the recovery image that has to be copied to the recovery partition? where can I find it?

[@itarmy2778]

Hi Bee, thanks for watching. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6jOYYmlYtWpjKs

[@beedu898]

Thank You so kuch Sir.

[@aaromcardenas7961]

In my case, I went through the entire process, but instead of selecting partition 4, which I had just created, I inadvertently chose partition 3, the system partition. What can I do? I've repeated the whole process multiple times, yet the outcome remains unchanged

[@tretasdewallstreet]

Thank you for the video. I have an issue. May know explain some differences? There are a lot of different partitions on my: Partição 1 Recovery 499 MB 1024 KB Partição 2 System 99 MB 500 MB Partição 3 Reserved 16 MB 599 MB Partição 4 Primary 445 GB 615 MB * Partição 5 Recovery 582 MB 446 GB I have two Recovery Partions and I don't know why. And I also have a Partition 3 with RESERVED flag with just 16mb. Do you know the reason of that partition? And Why I have two recovery paritions?

[@Quandale-Dingo]

when I say exit diskpart and reagentc /enable in command promt to finish, it says "The Windows RE image was not found" what does this mean and how can I get it to work

[@thiagomz]

list disk (check disk number) select disk 0 (select correct disk) list part (check partition number) select part 1 (select correct partition) set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac" (set partition type to WinRE) gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001 (mark as required partition)

[@mimoumoha8205]

thank you so mutch i fix the problem of update error with this

[@chpnmurthy]

Thank you. Very detailed explanation

[@itarmy2778]

Glad it was helpful! thanks for sub!

[@denxoc0re734]

Hi! Thanks for the video. I am using a GPT. I followed all the instructions however my WinRe is still disabled. I used the GPT code you flashed on the scree. Can you help further? please? Thanks!

[@clamatac]

great video, still working on it

[@engkoymaldito3971]

hey, is there a way that you can make a single Key Press just like laptops, let say, I want to recovery or restore to factory default, (on laptops it's already pre programmed), how about desktop can we do it also?.

[@omeralshaoush247]

nice videos, I have a problem, if I want to upgrade my HDD to a new SSD, how I can clone all the recovery and the OEM partitions to the new SSD

[@itarmy2778]

Thanks, you can use and free disk cloning software like Clonezilla or Macrium Reflect.

[@yes4ice]

Guys some PCS might have a hidden winagent folder that provides a location for backup

[@solofourohsixgaming]

In my case I have two recovery partitions and cannot enable reagentc, it says cannot update boot config. Also I cannot boot into safe mode. How do I delete them so I can follow your video?

[@ナズハン]

sadly, when i do the last step, which is "reagentc /enable", it says "The Windows RE image was not found." So what do i do now

[@itarmy2778]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/envXaIeEmLNqn7M

[@antsfur]

Hi thxs for the video, can i use something like diskgenius to do the job? Thanks

[@itarmy2778]

You are welcome. No

[@betablockrr]

Do I have to manually copy the winRE file to the new recovery partition?

[@oneemotiva4975]

HI, How can I increase the capacity I am getting error . Error 0x80070643 .Can no longer update anything. Thank you

[@RogerH-m2y]

I cloned with Easeus an HHD to SSD (1to). The clone works perfectly. But I noticed later that the partition for recovery was empty on the SSD. But I cannot use the previous HDD newly formatted to make a copy. Is it possible to use your way to create a new recovery partition?

[@itarmy2778]

Yes

[@onthepc]

It's creating helthy (bisic data patition) why? it's not healthy (primary patition)?

[@AintPopular]

if i delete health recovery partition (504mb) and convert mbr to gpt can i make one right afterwards will it work or will there be issue?

[@itarmy2778]

Yes, disable the recovery environment and then delete the recovery partition.

[@svmgamerff8906]

after trying all the steps and to enable it using "reagentc/enable" it says ..The Windows RE image was not found..

[@itarmy2778]

Copy the wim file