Win10 reset prompts that the recovery environment cannot be found and installation media is required

Cause analysis:

The recovery environment cannot be found may be due to the loss of WINER.wim in the system. The image exists in the Recovery folder in the root directory of the C drive. The folder is deleted or reduced.

Solution:

1. First, let’s check whether the WINRE.WIM file is really lost

1. Press the WIN X key , and then click "Command Prompt (Administrator)";

2. Enter: reagentc /info in the command prompt and press Enter, the following picture will be displayed:

3. As shown in the two pictures above, the first picture shows the location of Windows RE, indicating that the WINRE.WIM image is not lost, while the second chapter shows that Windows RE If the location is empty, it means that WINRE.WIM is lost. There are many reasons why WINRE.WIM is lost, including accidental deletion and excessive streamlining.

2. Then we need to re-create the recovery environment and retrieve WINRE.WIM:

1. Create the recovery environment image directory.

Create a new folder named Recovery in the root directory of the system disk, and then create a new folder named WindowsRE in the Recovery folder. The full path is C:\Recovery\WindowsRE.

2. Obtain the WinRE.wim image from Microsoft's original Windows10 ISO image.

The WinRE.wim image is located in the install.wim of the original ISO image. We can use the Rubik's Cube compression tool to extract directly from install.wim without having to "unzip" install.wim. (Some decompression software may not be able to decompress the install.wim file) Specific method:

Open the Rubik's Cube soft media compression tool, first open the original Microsoft ISO image, then open the sources directory, double-click install.wim. You can open it and then navigate to the windows/system32/recovery directory, as shown below, where you can see the WinRE.wim image we need.

Select the winre.wim file, click "Extract to" above, the dialog box below will appear, change the path to C:\Recovery\WindowsRE, click "OK" Start copying.

After the copy is completed, confirm that the winre.wim file already exists in the C:\Recovery\WindowsRE directory, as shown in the figure below (please note that the WINRE.WIM file is hidden)

3. Set WINER.WIM as the system’s default recovery environment image

1. Press WIN X and hold to open " Command Prompt (Administrator)";

2. Execute in the command prompt: reagentc /setreimage /path C:\Recovery\WindowsRE as shown below:

3. After the setting is successful, you still need to turn it on and continue to execute the command: reagentc /enable as shown below:

After passing the above steps, we have repaired it. Win10 recovery environment, and then we can perform the reset operation.

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