Create A Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) Partition

Hadron,

By chance I noticed my RE partition didn't contain winre.wim today.
reagentc /info showed the RE was disabled. reagentc /enable failed.

I searched my computer and winre.wim was in the E:\ drive. ? why.
My images were checked and the RE partition yesterday morning contained winre.wim. But not last night or this morning. The RE partition was restored from the good image and all is OK. I then deleted winre.wim from the E:\ drive.

I haven't seen this before. Or haven't noticed it anyway.

 

@Brian K
I don't know why, Brian.
I still find some things about winre.wim to be odd.

Many websites still state that winre.wim is located in C:\Windows\System32\Recovery, but I haven't seen it there in years. It is in my Recovery partition though.
I remember you mentioning some time back that when you enable the Recovery partition, winre.wim is moved from C:\Windows\System32\Recovery to the Recovery partition as opposed to being copied.
I am not sure if that has always been the case.

Why winre.wim is in the E:\ drive, I don't know. Was it in the root of the drive?
Could it have been an operating system upgrade? Maybe Windows 11?

 

Yes, the root. Mysterious.

I did upgrade another partition to Win11 yesterday. Good thought on your part.

That Win11 was deleted yesterday afternoon.

 

I decided to check mine.
All good so far, but in the past it has disabled itself.