Creating Recovery Partition on Drive

How to create a recovery partition on the device's own hard drive (Windows 10)

Setting aside partition on till's drive:

1. Open Disk Management on the till

2. Table of partitions for each disk will be displayed along the bottom of the screen

Right click a partition you can shrink, this will be the right most partition on the disk

Ideally this will be the C partition, DO NOT shrink any system partitions

Select Shrink Volume...

3. Shrink the volume by 1024 MB (1GB)

4. A new partition will display called Unallocated

Right click this and select New Simple Volume...

5. Assign a letter to the partition (e.g. E)

6. Ensure File System for the partition is NTFS

7. Name the Partition (e.g System Recovery)

You now have a partition put aside to set as recovery

Setting up partition to be seen as a valid recovery destination:

We need to apply a couple of settings to this new partition in order for Windows to see it as a valid destination for the recovery environment

The steps we perform change slightly depending if the till is set on a MBR or GPT system, see steps below on how to check:

Checking partition style setup

1. Within Disk Management on the till, right click the disk listed beside the partitions

2. Select Properties

3. Select the Volumes tab

4. This will be either GPT or MBR, keep note of what this is

Setting up partition as recovery

1. Open elevated CMD (run as admin)

2. Open diskpart

diskpart

list disk

select disk X

5. List the partitions to find the partition number

list partition

select partition X

set id=27

set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac

gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001

reagentc /disable

3. Re-enable recovery environment
This can take some time, wait for it to state the operation as successful

reagentc /enable