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So i've somehow lost my recovery partition, or at least its not being tethered to my current windows install.

I tried to create a recovery drive and was greeted with "some files are missing" or some such.

I proceeded to check diskmgt and it is there. Disk 0, partition 4. Odd and likely central, is the fact that it shows as 100% free.

Of course if i look at my macrium images, its not free. If i explore said partition with minitool partition wizard, its not free (winre.wim is present, reagent.xml is present, and boot.sdi is present and accounted for)

This has failed

This is what bcdedit enum shows

I'm at a loss as far as how to get windows back pointed towards the recovery partition properly. I realize the means exists to place the wim anywhere, however i'd like it to be functionally sound like windows intended/created on its own.

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Well, not really AN answer as much as MY answer. However after going through the ringer, one of the following fixed it.

Either the application of a drive letter and removal of said drive letter to the recovery partition, or running a chkdsk against the recovery partition whilst it had said drive letter.

After the aforementioned i checked disk management, and suddenly it wasnt showing as empty space. I checked reagentc /info and it showed as enabled with a path.

i tested with creation of a recovery drive and voila.

i guess one of those windows things.

Either way, something to try if you've been down the entire checklist of other options related to your non-functional recovery partition.

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