Recent content by JimDoe

Thanks Steve, I have tried that and it does absolutely nothing. There's also no startup options in the Shift+Restart menu. It was my understanding that the options rely on WinRE, so I embarked on the journey of fixing it.

But if I change the xml a little bit, the /enable command regenerates it incorrectly, and nukes the boot.sdi file that I put in R:\Recovery\WinRE. All while reporting "Operation Successful". P. S. I found out that my /info output with the all-zero GUID is normal for when Windows RE status is...

Since the first post I fixed my BCD entries, also manually edited ReAgent.xml to reference correct GUIDs. Now I get this: ReAgentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Disabled Windows RE location...

Thanks, but this is exactly what I've already done, and it doesn't work, as described in my opening post.

This is an old Windows 10 installation that I have done a repair reinstall on and updated to Win 11 a while back, everything is working fine, until I realized I have no recovery so I can't boot into safe mode. I had a recovery partition but it was 470 MB in size and didn't have a .wim file. So I...