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Windows recovery image file not found
The missing Windows Recovery Environment files will need to be copied from the Windows Installation media to the running system to resolve this issue.
You should perform the following steps on the machine which is having the issue.
install.wim
is present, skip to step 4install.esd
is present, proceed to step 3First, using the DISM Get-ImageInfo function, determine which Index ID inside the install.esd matches the installed version of Windows.
Modify file paths as needed for your environment.
dism /get-imageinfo /imagefile:D:\sources\install.esd
In this example, the machine had Windows 10 Pro installed, and using the previous command, Index #6 matched that version.
The /Compress switch must be included, if not the resulting wim file will fail to mount using DISM.
Dism /Export-image /SourceImageFile:D:\sources\install.esd /SourceIndex:6 /DestinationImageFile:C:\tempsources\install.wim /Compress:fast /CheckIntegrity
DISM /Mount-image /imagefile:D:\sources\install.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:C:\dism /readonly /optimize
robocopy /MIR C:\dism\Windows\System32\Recovery\ C:\Windows\System32\Recovery
reagentc /setreimage /path C:\Windows\System32\Recovery
Dism /Unmount-image /MountDir:C:\dism /discard
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