Your system obviously have some more problems and In Place Upgrade is totally safe and fast if you choose to keep personal files and programs. It just replaces system files with rand new "virgin" ones.
Following aubergine's steps, I copied the file to C:\Windows\System32\Recovery folder. It is no longer there after running reagentc /enable. I assume that it was moved to the recovery partition. Diskpart's list vol lists the volume 4 partition as RAW instead of NTFS. I can't get inside it.
I follow these instructions and similar ones on a youtube video, and the RE location still ends up on the main partition (2) instead of my recovery partition (4).
I started this thread. Believe me, I tried every solution mentioned here to fix my recovery partition. Nothing suggested here "stuck" other than one -- deleting the recovery partition, re-formatting the unallocated partition as NTFS, settings its id and gpt attributes with diskpart and then performing an in-place upgrade with the same Win version.
BTW, after following this procedure, diskpart correctly lists the recovery partition as NTFS and reagentc /info reports Enabled, but upon reboot reagentc /info reports Disabled and diskpart reports the recovery partition as RAW. This is consistent no matter how many times I repeat this procedure. I have no idea why the partition changes to RAW after a reboot.
Why bother - if winre.wim is in folder c:\recovery and enabled (partition 3), moving it to a separate winre partition 4 makes no functional difference to Winre actions. In fact, the partition can get in the way if you have spare unallocated space after the winre partition.
Recovery tools partition
The recovery tools should be in a separate partition than the Windows partition to support automatic failover and to support booting partitions encrypted with Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption.
We recommend that you place this partition immediately after the Windows partition. This allows Windows to modify and recreate the partition later if future updates require a larger recovery image.
Partition layout
The default partition layout for UEFI-based PCs is: a system partition, an MSR, a Windows partition, and a recovery tools partition.
This layout lets you use Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption through both Windows and through the Windows Recovery Environment.
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Yeah but I never use bitlocker so waste of time.Source:
When I follow your procedure, reagentc /info (last step) reports that Windows RE status is enabled and diskpart lists the fs of the recovery partition as NTFS.
This solved it for me. The xml needed to be deleted so that when you set the reimage it will automatically create an updated xml.
@RepairPC13 Glad this worked for you. I ran across this problem several years ago after I struggled with getting setreimage to work. I took me nearly 8 hours of experimentation and research to solve it. You never forget something like this!
A recovery image, if one is configured with WinRE is often the Windows partition itself.
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation failed: 3
REAGENTC.EXE: An error has occurred.REAGENTC.EXE: The Windows RE image cannot be stored in the specified volume. Use the RETAIN command in DISKPART to prepare the volume and try again.Partition 1
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : Yes
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 898086469632
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 12 Y RAW Partition 1000 MB Healthy HiddenREAGENTC.EXE: The specified path was not found.
where is winre.wim now?
