How To Create A Custom Updated Windows 10 Recovery Partition

1 How to Capture a Windows Recovery Image as a WIM file2 How to Create a Windows 10 Recovery Partition3 How to Add Your Custom Windows 10 Recovery Partition to the Boot Menu

What is a recovery partition? Due to the inclusion on their PC by default, many users assume the recovery partition isn’t something they should mess with. In reality, though, it’s completely safe and relatively easy to format the OEM recovery partition and create a recovery partition of your own. The recovery partition is simply a save of the system’s state when the manufacturer first set up the PC. It usually takes the form of a .wim file that can be accessed through the usual recovery interface. You can create a recovery partition in Windows yourself to replace those files, but it’s usually not a good idea to simply delete the OEM partition without replacing it. To create a recovery drive in Windows 10, you must first create a Windows recovery image, before preparing the partition and adding it to your boot menu for easy access. If you want to create a full Windows 10 System Image Backup, there is an easier way to do it which does not work to update the recovery partition.