Unable to re-enable WinRE

Anonymous
2024-01-13T10:16:22+00:00

I have browsed several threads regarding the failed update that gives the error 0x80070643.

The solution they have written was to manually resize the partition. After following the steps written in the "Instructions to manually resize your partition to install the WinRE update", I am now unable to re-enable the WinRE due to the WinRE image not being found.

I was wondering how to fix this and if there are any drawbacks having it turned off? Written below are the text in my cmd,

C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info

Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration

Information:

Windows RE status: Disabled

Windows RE location:

Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 0dea78fa-7b11-11ec-840c-a902461c948e

Recovery image location:

Recovery image index: 0

Custom image location:

Custom image index: 0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /enable

REAGENTC.EXE: The Windows RE image was not found.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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  1. Ramesh 182K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-01-13T11:44:05+00:00

    As suggested in that thread, run:

    dir c:\windows\system32\recovery\ /a

    If winre.wim is not shown in the output, you need to extract it from the ISO, as mentioned in the linked article in that thread.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-13T11:39:12+00:00

    Sorry that I don't exactly understand the recovery method in that thread but here is the output,

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart

    Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.

    On computer: KINDRED

    DISKPART> list disk

    Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

    Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 B *

    Disk 1 Online 931 GB 0 B *

    DISKPART> list vol

    Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info

    Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 464 GB Healthy Boot

    Volume 1 Recovery NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden

    Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System

    Volume 3 Windows RE NTFS Partition 510 MB Healthy Hidden

    Volume 4 D New Volume NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy

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  3. Ramesh 182K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-01-13T10:20:19+00:00

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