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Windows Recovery Environment is a bootable environment that can be used to fix common issues with unbootable Windows systems.

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Setting WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) Flag On Partitions

In AOMEI Partition Assistant I have cloned multiple partitions of one hard drive to another, however, the WRE flags have not been carried over, even when MSR and EFI have. Is there any way to set WRE flags or is this even something that would have…
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How do you recreate the System Recovery environment in Windows 7?

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium RTM (64-bit) and I want to take advantage of the system recovery tools (eg the Command Prompt) without using the Windows 7 DVD. My understanding is that this environment (WinRE) should be installed to your HDD by…
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ReAgentc: Unable to update WinRE boot configuration data

Windows 10 Pro x64 v1909 update fails: Issue seems to be caused by problems with WinRE, receiving the error if I also try to reset the PC. I've tried resetting the ReAgent.xml [failed] and moving/restoring winre.wim to %WinDir%\system32\Recovery,…
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Startup script for Windows Recovery Environment?

I'm trying to automate the Windows 7 Recovery Environment. I want the computer to be able to boot into the Recovery Environment, automatically run some commands, and then restart back into Windows. The reason for this is that I want to use the…
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Multiple WinRE partitions: can I share one partition between several OS installations?

I have two Windows 10 installations on a single GPT drive. The current partition layout is: EFI WinRE MSR ...OS1... ...OS2... Currently, OS1 is configured to use WinRE partition, as suggested here. OS2 does not have any WinRE yet. Is it possible…
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WinRE missing storage drivers

I have a few systems that I need to make some changes using the command prompt in the recovery environment however the command prompt does not see any internal drives. I have found another question asked on here that seems promising but the systems…
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Can clonezilla image a recovery partition?

I am trying to image an entire disk but the last partition (the windows recovery partition) failed. How can I tell if this is a disk error or some sort of copy protection mechanism? I'm using an asus laptop if that's any help.
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Win 10 hard drive full, can't boot, can't delete files in recovery mode or remove write protection

I am stuck on how to get my PC to boot. I thought the installation might be corrupted but I read that if your hard drive is full then it can cause Windows 10 to not boot. Low and behold I have 2048kb left of space on my SSD. I made a recovery USB…
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Windows does not accept login password from Recovery Environment

Windows 10 won't accept my login password from the Recovery Environment. That's the blue screen with options such as Repair Installation. This is despite Windows accepting the same password to log me into the OS from the main login screen at system…
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Windows 10 RE - kernel is missing or contains errors

I was attempting to create a Veeam Recovery Media (a rescue disk for a backup app) today. Although it was created, it is unbootable, due to a problem with Windows RE, that is used to run this bootable disk. Later, I created a new USB Windows Rescue…
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