I need a way to restore the recovery environment to work from the hardrive not just the install disk. When press F8 and "repair my computer"it does not work.

Hi, Do you mean that the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) does not appears on the boot menu when you press F8? If so, you can try the following command: 1. Click the Start button, type CMD in the Start Search box and press Enter. 2. Right click on CMD and choose Run as administrator. 3. Type the following command and press Enter: Reagentc /enable Does it work now?Vivian Xing - MSFT

Thank you Vivian. The repair entry is listed on the boot selection screen and the Recovery"%systemdrive%\Recovery" folder is sitting in the drive root containing Winre.wim. Selecting the repair option brings my back to the OS choice menu. Bcdedit /vrecoverysequence {8675f8a0-c1a0-11de-97da-001731a5d6cc}recoveryenabled Yes

Hi, How about rebuilding BCD as below? 1. Load WinRE from the installation disc. 2. In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click "Command Prompt" and type in the following command. Please press Enter at the end of each lines. BOOTREC /FIXMBR BOOTREC /FIXBOOT BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD BOOTREC /SCANOS 3. If the command is successful, please close the Command Prompt window and reboot the computer.Vivian Xing - MSFT

http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/archive/2007/01/12/how-to-install-winre-on-the-hard-disk.aspxI need the script "SetAutoFailover.cmd" from AIK. I could not find it in my AIK for windows 7so I am downloading the .iso once more. When the download completes if I find it I willrun "SetAutoFailover.cmd" which should install the RE to the hard drive.

I am sick and tired of Microsoft removing featurs like the recivery console. It was easy to install to the hard drive. Now with the recovery environment it is imposible to install to the harddrive. All this company seems to do is bloat my harddrive with winsxs, take all of the features from explorer, make it usless without a high power video card which is supposed to be for games not OS. The new wim based operating systemmakeswhat was easy next to impossible. That I can't reinstall the recovery environment is absurd.BCDedit has zero to do with configuring the recovery environment the new and stupid name for the old recovery consolein XP. Very few replies for this because the entire comunity is stumeped. Following the procedure for recagentc.exe is usless.

See also: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799242(WS.10).aspx.ReAgentc.exe /enable should re-create the \recovery folder. I have not verified this, however.Later: It can work, but not always.When ReAgentc didn't work, I created my own. First I used bcdedit /create, to create a new OSLOADER entry. I copied the new GUID and used it to make a new folder, C:\Recovery\GUID.In that folder, I put copies of boot.sdi and boot.wim from the Windows installation DVD. I renamed boot.wim to Winre.wim.I added device and osdevice as "ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\GUID\Winre.wim,{ramdiskoptions}". I also added standard path, inherit and systemroot settings, and set winpe to Yes.I added a {ramdiskoptions} entry, since there wasn't one already (as shown by bcdedit /enum all), and set ramdisksdidevice to partition=C: and ramdisksdipath to \Recovery\GUID\boot.sdi.This might be fun when you are playing around, but it is a PITA when you have to do it on multiple machines.