LKBEN11684: Where is the windows recovery when you do not have a recovery partition?

Symptom

Your system does not have a recovery partition.

Cause

This can be done by an autounatted.xml and you forgot to create a recovery partition.

Solution

To check if a recovery might be possible, you use the following command:

reagentc /info

C:\Windows\System32>reagentc /info
Konfigurationsinformationen zur Windows-Wiederherstellungsumgebung (WinRE) und
zur Systemwiederherstellung:

    WinRE-Status:                          Enabled
    WinRE-Ort:                             \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition5\Recovery\WindowsRE
    Startkonfigurationsdaten-ID:           b28d09bc-0a93-11ee-885c-fe9b2ab72f02
    Ort des Wiederherstellungsimages:
    Index des Wiederherstellungsimages:    0
    Ort des benutzerdefinierten Images:
    Index des benutzerdefinierten Images:  0

REAGENTC.EXE: Vorgang erfolgreich.

In the above case, the WinRE-Status is "Enabled". If it is "Disabled", you do not have a recovery possiblity.

If you do not have a recovery partition, the recovery folder is located in C:\windows\system32\recovery. This location has two files. (one of the might be hidden)

ReAgent
Winre.wim

Hope this helps.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 27/10/2023