Create a hidden Recovery Partition to restore the system if needed

[daniel8190]

Hello everyone:

I'd like to know if there is a way to create a hidden recovery partition to restore the system if needed, and if so, what steps should I follow.
Kindly waiting for your replies.

Best

 

[garlin]

WinPE Setup will create a Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), if your disk layout has a correctly assigned partition and you haven't removed WinRE from the image. When there is no available partition, Windows will skip extracting WinRE into a partition.

If you have a licensed copy of NTLite, you can use the Disk layout wizard from the Unattended page. Follow this thread:
Is there a way to avoid creating a Recovery partition?

Ignore the part where I instruct you to change the Recovery partition's size to 0. Obviously, you want a non-zero partition.

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For the free edition:

Use Christoph Schneegan's excellent autounattend.xml generator. Save the created file as "\autounattend.xml" in your ISO folder before you ask NTLite to create a new ISO. I've bookmarked the minimum settings in order to properly assign the Recovery partition as 700 MB (currently recommended size, or near to that capacity.).

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11

The one drawback is if you have to combine other Unattended mode changes, you'll need to review the generator's other settings and update them so it creates an unattended file that fits all your other needs.