{"id":527,"date":"2022-12-05T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merserver.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2022-12-05T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:18:56","slug":"how-to-move-windows-recovery-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/how-to-move-windows-recovery-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move Windows Recovery Partition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Warning 1: You must know what the following commands do before you execute them. Check the link above and MS’s documentation for diskpart<\/a>, dism<\/a> and reagentc<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warning 2: Check disk numbers, partition numbers and volume letters carefully before executing commands.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Use diskpart<\/code> to find current recovery partition and assign a driver letter(eg. O<\/code>) to it:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    DISKPART> list disk\nDISKPART> select disk <the-number-of-disk-where-current-recovery-partition-locate>\nDISKPART> list partition\nDISKPART> select partition <the-number-of-current-recovery-partition>\nDISKPART> assign letter=O\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Create an image file from current recovery partition:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
      Dism \/Capture-Image \/ImageFile:C:\\recovery-partition.wim \/CaptureDir:O:\\ \/Name:\"Recovery\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Apply the created image file to another partition(eg. N<\/code>) that will become the new recovery partition:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
        Dism \/Apply-Image \/ImageFile:C:\\recovery-partition.wim \/Index:1 \/ApplyDir:N:\\\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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        1. Register the location of the recovery tools:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
          reagentc \/disable\nreagentc \/setreimage \/path N:\\Recovery\\WindowsRE\nreagentc \/enable\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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          1. Use diskpart<\/code> to hide the recovery partition:
            • For UEFI:<\/li><\/ul>DISKPART> select volume N DISKPART> set id=\"de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac\" DISKPART> gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001 DISKPART> remove<\/code>
              • For BIOS:<\/li><\/ul>DISKPART> select volume N DISKPART> set id=27 DISKPART> remove<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Reboot the computer, now the new recovery partition should be working<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • (Optional) Delete the old recovery partition:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                DISKPART> select volume O\nDISKPART> delete partition override\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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                1. (Optional) Check if the recovery partition is working:\n
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                  1. Show the current status:reagentc \/info<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  2. Specifies that Windows RE starts automatically the next time the system starts:reagentc \/boottore<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  3. Reboot the computer and do your stuff in Windows RE (eg. enter CMD and run some tools)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
                    Warning 1: You must know what the following commands do before you execute them. Check the link above and MS’s documentation for diskpart, dism and reagentc. Warning 2: Check disk numbers, partition numbers and volume letters carefully before executing commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}