All the recent talk about the KB5034441 update for W10 got me to checking the status and size of the recovery partition on both my W10 and W11 machine. Turns out the W11 machine (running W11 Pro 22H2) has no recovery partition at all and the Windows RE Status is currently “Disabled”. This is a clean W11 install I did back in April 2023 on a new machine and I don’t recall doing anything to prevent creation of the recovery partition, so no idea why there is no such partition.
Now, my question is not how to create a recovery partition, rather I was wondering whether is there any real benefit to have one and to enable Windows RE before I actually go to the trouble of shrinking my OS partition to make room on the disk for creating a recovery partition.
Over the course of 8 years, I never had the need to run the Windows RE on my W10 machine nor I needed it on my W11 machine so far. Would having at hand a bootable USB of the W11 version running on my machine enough to “replace” any potential need for a recovery partition? Or would you suggest I go ahead and create a recovery partition?
Thanks in advance for your input!
