Windows Recovery Environment

Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a set of tools included in the Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems to help diagnose and recover from serious errors which may be preventing Windows from booting successfully. WinRE may be installed and/or booted from many media including hard disks (Hidden NTFS partition type 0x27), optical media (such as an operating system installation disc) and PXE (e.g. Windows Deployment Services). WinRE is based on WinPE 2.0.[1]

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Features

The following options are available when booting from the operating system DVD:

In addition, volumes encrypted with Bitlocker can be mounted if a recovery key is available.

The number of tools available has increased significantly compared to what is available with previous versions of Windows. Windows XP and Windows 2000 are limited to the Recovery Console.

The Windows Recovery Environment can also be installed to a hard drive partition by OEMs,[3] and customized with additional tools such as a separate system recovery tool for restoring the computer back to its original state.[4] As of Windows Vista SP1, users can create their own bootable CD containing the recovery environment.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Windows RE Notes : Introducing Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)". msdn.com. http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/archive/2006/09/18/760295.aspx. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  2. ^ The coolest new DISM command (to me at least)
  3. ^ "How to install Windows RE on the hard disk". msdn.com. http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/archive/2007/01/12/how-to-install-winre-on-the-hard-disk.aspx. Retrieved 2008-02-14. 
  4. ^ "Customizing the Windows RE Experience". microsoft.com. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/f19ec108-1922-425a-8cd8-ee29029f4b901033.mspx?mfr=true. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 

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