Fix Could not find the Recovery Environment. Fix missing Winre.wim & Windows RE Image Was Not Found

For Fixing "Could not find the Recovery Environment" or "Windows RE Image Was Not Found error" on Windows 11, see full but short video :    • Fix:Could not find the recovery environmen...  

This video session we shall resolve following errors/issues:
Can't do factory reset Windows 10 because of error - Could not find the Recovery Environment.
Easily Fix The Windows RE Image Was Not Found error
Easily Fix missing WinRe.wim after fresh install of Windows.
Converting install.esd file to install.wim file
Run fancy looking command such as reagentc /info and reagentc /enable .

These steps are pretty easy to perform, if you followed all the steps you will have fully working Windows Recovery Environment and be able to reset your Windows to factory defaults.

The most important file is the Winre.wim file, that for some reason goes missing even on a fresh from factory installed Windows setup.

File we need is Winre.Wim

Listed are some of the things I have done in the video along with the commands used for easy copy pasting action for you guys :).


Download Windows 10 ISO or Windows 11 ISO using the Media Creator Tool

Copy Windows ISO over to laptop - using USB or other means.

Mount the ISO on the Laptop with missing Winre.wim file.

Now need to convert the install.esd file to install.wim file, following are the steps:

Locate install.esd file on the mounted windows install.

Copy it to a folder.

Open command prompt at Administrator


Browse to the folder where you saved the install.esd file.

Run commands:
DISM /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:install.esd

Windows 11 iso does not have install.esd, so this is the step that is different in Windows 10. If you are here for Windows 11 "Windows RE Image Was Not Found error" see the video :    • Fix:Could not find the recovery environmen...  

In this case, the install.esd file contains several version of Windows 10 , Pick the correct index for the version you wish to use.

Extract the Windows edition you need from the ESD and convert it to a WIM file:

dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:install.esd /SourceIndex:YourINDEXHERE /DestinationImageFile:install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity


Now that we have the install.wim file extracted from the install.esd file. We will fetch the Winre.Wim file.

These steps are final steps to fixing the missing Winre.wim file:

create folder on C: drive called mountwim

dism /mount-wim /wimfile:"C:\yourfolder\install.wim" /index:1 /mountdir:c:\mountwim /readonly

Copy the winre.wim file from the mountwim directory you used above (will be found in Windows\system32\recovery\ folder) to your c:\windows\system32\recovery folder.


run
reagentc /info

enable the Windows Recover Environment

reagentc /enable

Lots of questions about un mounting the mountwim folder/drive etc. This command should work have not tried yet:

Dism /Unmount-Image /MountDir:C:\mountwim\ /Commit

Please note above command does not work as pointed out by the viewers. So I have created the video to allow to unmount the directory if you are not doing a full clean factory reset check it out here :    • Fix:Can't delete files after use DISM. For...  




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