Just fixed this on my laptop. Essentially you can just move the WinRE environment to the original Recovery Partition (Partition 1). Step Zero obviously is back up your entire system with clonezilla or something else nice. First note the time stamps of WinRE.wim or other files everywhere: c:\dir /ah c:\windows\system32\recovery Backup your disk partition info: diskpart> list volume diskpart> list disk diskpart> select disk 0 diskpart> select par 1 diskpart> detail par diskpart> select par 2 diskpart> detail par ... Until you have saved all the partition details. You will use the GUID to make the Recovery partitions accessible. select the old recovery partition set id=07 # Many of the guides show to do this, but it didn't work for me. My other system with Win8.1 Enterprise shows it as 07 hIdden, but my Win8.1 corporate OEM edition showed it differently... so try setting it as a GUID OR set id=GUID of a basic didks... set id=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 Refer to this wiki for more info about GUIDs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Windows:_64-bit_versions Now assign a drive letter for the old partition select the volume for the old recovery partition assign letter=o # O for Old dir /ah dir /s Note time stamps of the old recovery folder and recovery files... probably from before you re-installed windows Now make a new sub directory: mkdir o:\Recoverynew\WinRE now disable WinRE globally reagentc /disable Check the date / timestamp of any new files in c:\windows\system32\recovery... if it is brand new you can copy this one to the Old partition, or you will grab it from the "new recovery partition" Now perform the same partition change to basic disk type to unhide and assign a drive letter (N) to the "new recovery" partition which you will be removing: Either copy the WinRE.wim and its associated attributes (hidden, system) from the C: or the N: drive:\ Robocopy.exe C:\Windows\System32\Recovery\ O:\Recoverynew\WindowsRE\ Winre.wim /copyall /dcopy:t /move Now re-set reagentc and re-enable it: Configure Win RE: reagentc /setreimage /path Q:\Recovery\WindowsRE Enable Win RE: reagentc /enable (thanks: http://www.sepago.de/e/nicholas/2012/07/25/windows-recovery-environment-re-explained ) Kill the new partition... reboot and test Then test winre environment by going to PC settings - Update and Recovery - Recovery - Advanced - Restart Now - Advanced - Advanced Command prompt... Once you know that WinRE is working, go back to windows, and expand your Primary Partition. That's why I had to do all the above. I had the extra second recovery partition blocking my C: drive from being able to expand into some unused disk space (hey! 11G on a 250G SSD is worth it for all this). Enjoy.
