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a) Hello, I deleted the Windows 11 recovery partition on my C drive.
b) Now I can no longer create a recovery disk; no longer create a recovery USB; no longer do automatic recovery by booting from the recovery partition.
c) System is a Dell XPS-8930 desktop tower.
d) How can I recreate the Windows 11 recovery partition?
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Hi William,
The recovery partition can be created using Diskpart commands.
1] Please open Disk Management and maximize it. Adjust the column widths in the top pane to make all the entries visible. Post a screenshot.
2] Launch msinfo32.exe, and click System Summary. Resize the columns in the right pane to make the entries visible, and post a screenshot.
3] Open the admin Command Prompt and run:
bcdedit
reagentc /info
Post the output.
As requested earlier, please open Disk Management and maximize it. Adjust the column widths in the top pane to make all the entries visible. Post a screenshot.
You’re not the first person to accidentally delete the Windows 11 recovery partition.
You should Use Dell’s Official OS Recovery Tool.
Since you have a Dell XPS‑8930, Dell provides a full recovery image you can download and use to rebuild the system’s recovery environment.
Dell’s OS Recovery Tool lets you create a bootable USB that restores the factory recovery setup.
To recreate the Windows 11 recovery partition after it has been deleted, you can follow these general steps:
reagentc command to ensure that Windows recognizes it as a recovery option.For detailed instructions on how to perform these steps, you can refer to the Microsoft documentation on creating recovery media and configuring recovery partitions.
References:
Hi everyone, thanks for your replies.
a) I already used the Dell OS Recovery Tool to create a USB drive for recovery, so I am OK there. However, what I want to do is to restore the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition, commonly labeled WINRETOOLS, on my C: disk.
b) I already know how to create a partition on the disk. My problem is restoring the WinRe information there.
c) I do not think that the information from msinfo32.exe or bcdedit is relevant to the problem. The C: disk is 1TB and it has two very small partitions at the front followed by the C: drive partition.
d) Here is the readout from reagentc /info
D:_TM>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Disabled
Windows RE location:
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 1750ae9e-76df-11f0-9294-b88584b8e570
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
e) What I am hoping for is a set of steps to walk me through the process of restoring the WinRE partition.
Thank you!