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Paul <
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> On 6/9/2023 2:01 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > [Context kept because of age. Please skip to the end.]
[Lots deleted.]
> > I finally re-made the (Macrium Reflect Free) Image backup of the three
> > non-C: partitions.
> >
> > I noticed that now the (image of the) Recovery Partition is (seems to
> > be?) completely empty, i.e. I can mount it, but File Explorer, DIR and
> > ATTRIB show no files or folders.
> >
> > If my (02AUG2022, i.e pre-MAY2023) notes are correct, it used to
> > contain a single folder `Recovery` with a single 3-byte file _CNBRP.FLG.
> >
> > Why the difference and why is the partition empty/nearly-empty?
> >
> > Should I worry?
> >
> > FTR, Macrium says this about the partition:
> >
> > 4 - (None) Primary - NTFS 603.5 MB 693.0 MB
> >
> > The others (non-C:) are:
> >
> > 1 - SYSTEM (None) Primary - FAT (LBA) 71.0 MB 260.0 MB
> > (Contains folder `EFI` with subfolders.)
> >
> > 2 - (None) Primary - Unformatted 16.0 MB 16.0 MB
> >
> > [...]
> >
>
> (1) is EFS, the "system" partition used by UEFI. It can be
> as small as 100MB. Linux does not like it to be 100MB and has
> a different minimum size for it.
>
> (2) in your example, is Microsoft Reserved, it is quite small, and
> it has no file system inside it. Since it has no file system,
> some utilities are not prepared to even move such a partition.
> Macrium switches to "dd" mode to back that up. Macrium is not
> defeated by such "items". Linux GParted on the other hand...
>
> (4) is System Reserved and is sized to hold WinRE.wim.
>
> With an Admin terminal, try
>
> reagentc /info
>
> and that will tell you whether the System Reserved is currently being
> used for its WinRE.wim , or the WIM is coming from somewhere else.
>
> If you have several System Reserved, the one "nearest" the right-hand-end
> of the C: partition, that could be the "real" one. The others may be
> part of supporting Windows.old rollback procedures on a failure.
>
> If the C: partition is ever inaccessible (like, say, BitLocker issue
> due to TPM resetting), that is when you want the WinRE.wim to be
> somewhere other than C: . That can function as the Recovery Environment
> when the OS can`t or won`t boot.
This is what `reagentc /info` says:
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location:
\\?\\GLOBALROOT\\device\\harddisk0\\partition4\\Recovery\\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier:
78cb9cd9-c29d-11ed-8d0a-ffb519a0e260
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
The
Windows RE location:
\\?\\GLOBALROOT\\device\\harddisk0\\partition4\\Recovery\\WindowsRE
part seems to imply that my Recovery Partition (4) is in use and should
contain WindowsRE[.wim] in folder Recovery, but as I said, the partition
does not contain/show any files or folders (at least not in File
Explorer (with (Show) File name extensions and Hidden items ticked), nor
with DIR and `ATTRIB *.*).
So still:
> > Should I worry?
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