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After a Windows 10 crash i had to delete the recovery partition and re-create it. Then i noticed that in Disk Management it's no more marked as "Healthy (Recovery Partition)". I have another drive with backup Windows installation so i can directly compare recovery partition attributes on both drives. Disk Management screenshot

DISKPART screenshot In DISKPART i found a couple of differences in partition attributes. Here you can see that the partition i've re-created has attributes

Required: No
Attrib  : 0000000000000000

while the untouched recovery partition on the backup drive has the following attributes:

Required: Yes
Attrib  : 0X8000000000000001

So my question is how can i change those partition attributes? Spent a day digging in the net with no result... P.S. Both drives are GPT ones with Windows 10 Pro 22H2 installed.

Thunderheart
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Using DISKPART:

  1. Either:
    • LIST VOL to list mountable volumes then SEL VOL n to select the volume (along with its partition); or
    • LIST DISK to list available disks then SEL DISK n to select the disk; then SEL PART n to select the partition (along with its volume): this works on partitions without a mountable volume (not containing a supported filesystem, not your case here because the file system of your Recovery partition is NTFS and supported as a valid volume, as long as it is effectively formatted as NTFS, and not just allocated/created as a blank primary partition, and its boot sector contains valid description of the NTFS volume basic properties and properly locates the necessary metafiles, including the volume allocation bitmap for clusters, the $Mft file and its own allocation bitmap for entries, the $MftMirr file mirroring the 16 first records of the main MFT, the root folder with its index files, other special files like $UpCase, $AttrDef, $LogFile, $Secure and $BadClus, and the directory entry for the bootsector and the special $Extend directory containing other metafiles for optional advanced NTFS features like TxF transactions, or ReFS extensions);
  2. then GPT ATTRIBUTES=0x8000000000000001. You can see and confirm these GPT partition attributes with DETAIL PART.
verdy_p
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