While setting up this home Windows installation some months back I managed to end up without a recovery partition for complicated reasons I won't get into, but I'd like to have it back. I have ~1000MBish unallocated at the end of my main drive to turn into the RE partition.
I have seen a lot of suggestions to just do an in-place upgrade from installation media, which is supposed to conjure up a recovery partition on its own, but I've also seen reports that this doesn't always work and I am just not willing to chance it.
I can enable/disable RE on C: using reagentc /enable and reagentc /disable which happily moves Winre.wim between ..\System32\Recovery\ when disabled and C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ when enabled.
I have, in preparation, created a partition in the unallocated space as such:
> diskpart> create partition primary> format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE tools"> assign letter="R"My problem is I am unsure how to tell reagentc to deploy the files to this partition when enabling. (and will removing the drive letter then break it or will it use the internal GUID?)
I have found this excellent answer here that tells us all about ensuring that proper ID and attributes are set on the partition, which is great for once the RE is actually in the right place.
For clarity this is a GPT disk, currently there is a ~3720GB C: part, a 260MB EFI partition, and the new R: on the end.
Side Q: can I delete C:\Recovery dir when recovery is on a separate partition, or does Windows throw a tantrum?