After I got my OS partition migrated to my mSATA SSD, I let everything run as-is to make sure that I didn’t have too many unforeseen c0nsequences. Today I decided to reclaim the free space where I had deleted the EFI partition at the beginning of HDD 0 and moved it to the first partition on the SSD.
I booted into TeraByte’s BootIt UEFI to do a little partition work. I slid my OS partition for the other side of my dual boot (the second partition on HDD0) up to occupy that free space and leave it after that partition, then slid my WinRE partition (the third partition) up to occupy that free space and leave it after, then resized the WinRE partition to absorb the free space and rebooted into Windows.
Later I checked TeraByte Unlimited to see if there was an update to my imaging tool of choice, Image For Windows, and indeed there was. I downloaded the update (free for licensees) and installed it, then used the included scripted command-line tool to update Image For Windows in my Windows Recovery Environment. Except it couldn’t find my Recovery Environment.
I ran reagentc /info and discovered that WinRE was disabled. Everything was there in the partition, but apparently sliding and then resizing that partition and the subsequent reboot had confused my BCD Store. Reagentc /enable failed, so I visited Recovery Environment at my website (ad free/non-revenue) and followed my instructions to get it going again. What I needed to do was on the third page.
I opened an elevated Command Prompt, then launched DISKPART and assigned a drive letter to my WinRE partition, exited DISKPART to reset the path, then re-launched DISKPART to remove the drive letter. I checked bcdedit to make sure WinRE was listed correctly, then exited the elevated Command Prompt.
I clicked on All Settings > Update & Security > Recovery and followed the menus to WindowsRE. It’s all good once more, and Image For Windows in the Recovery Environment is updated to v3.28. Image For Windows is not free, but it’s also not expensive ($38.94), and it is hands down the most used tool in my toolbox.
