How to recreate WinRE recovery environment

Check and Initialize WinRE Recovery Partition

Check if there is a WinRE (recovery environment) partition or not, if not create a recovery partition before recreating WinRE. 1. Type diskpart and press Enter.
 2. Type list disk and press Enter.
 3. Select the disk where Windows is installed (usually ‘0’) by typing ‘select disk 0’ and pressing ‘Enter’.
Type select disk 0 and press Enter.
 4. Check recovery partition Type
list partition and press Enter.  The preparation operation differs depending on whether or not “Recovery” is displayed.■ “Recovery” is not displayed
Proceed to the next section to create a new recovery partition and create a recovery partition.■ Format the partition where “Recovery” is displayed
, specify the Label and drive letter, and make the initial settings. 

WinRE Rebuild Initialization

① Type “ select partition 4 ” and press “Enter”.
Here is an example with Recovery Partition 4 . Please change it according to your environment.(2) Enter ” format quick fs=ntfs label=”WindowsRE” ” and press “Enter” to format and specify Label.

Label name

Here, “label” is set to “WindowsRE”, but you can specify your favorite label name if it is half-width alphanumeric characters.③ Input ” assign letter=R ” and press “Enter” to assign drive letter ” R “.
 4. Type ” exit ” and press “Enter” to exit diskpart .

For the continuation of WinRE re-creation, proceed to ” Procedures for re-creating WinRE “.

Create a new recovery partition for WinRE

If recovery is not listed, create a new recovery partition. 1. If you have exited ” diskpart “, proceed to ” 3. select disk 0 ” in ” Checking and Initializing WinRE Recovery Partition ” above.
 2. Go to select disk and
type ” create partition primary size=717 ” and press “Enter” to specify the creation and size of the recovery partition.

Recovery partition size

Here, the Windows standard size “717MB” is specified, but “size” is easy to understand and “1024MB (1GB)” is also fine.3. Type list partition and press Enter.
 4. Select the created partition and type
select partition 4 and press Enter.
Here is an example with Recovery Partition 4 . Please change it according to your environment.5. Type ” format quick fs=ntfs label=”WindowsRE” ” and press “Enter” to format and specify Label.

Label name

Here, “label” is set to “WindowsRE”, but you can specify your favorite label name if it is half-width alphanumeric characters.6.Type “ assign letter=R ” and press “Enter” to assign drive letter “ R ”.
 7. Type ” exit ” and press “Enter” to exit diskpart .

For the continuation of WinRE re-creation, proceed to ” Procedures for re-creating WinRE “.

Situations when WinRE is not normal

When the recovery environment WinRE is not normal, “Recovery environment does not start”, “Automatic repair cannot be performed”, or troubleshooting in “Options” of the recovery environment and advanced options are not displayed. As a result, operations such as safe mode of the repair function, command prompt, system restore, deletion of updates, initialization, etc. will not be possible.

1. Copy Winre.wim to WinRE recovery partition

1-1. Confirm that the display of the command prompt is “C:\Windows\system32>”.
 1-2. Create a folder in the recovery partition (drive letter R ).
Type mkdir R:\Recovery\WinRE and press Enter.
Create a folder named ” Recovery ” on the drive ” R :” and create a ” WinRE ” folder in it. There is no default value for the name of the folder. Single-byte alphanumeric characters can be created with a name of your choice.1-3.Check Winre.wim file
Check that “Winre.wim” exists in “C:\Windows\System32\Recovery” or “C:\Recovery”.
 “C:\Recovery” is a hidden file, so click “Show” in the “View” menu of Explorer and select “Hidden files”.

If you can’t find Winre.wim

• If “Winre.wim” is not in place, search the drive in Explorer.
• Even if you search for “Winre.wim”, it may not be found depending on the PC environment. In this case you can extract from the Windows ISO file. Details on how to do this are provided on the following page.
  Sure way to fix Winre.wim not found

1-4. Use the “xcopy” command below to copy “Winre.wim” to the “Recovery WinRE” folder created in the “R:” drive of the recovery partition.
■ If Winre.wim is in C:\Windows\System32\Recovery

 ■ If Winre.wim is in C:\Recovery

 If “1 file copied” is displayed, the operation here is completed.

3. Register WinRE partition with Windows

 

3-1. Confirm that the display of the command prompt is