The Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a companion operating system installed alongside Windows 10, typically in a separate partition, that can help with troubleshooting, recovery, or booting fr...
Updated Feb 02, 2023
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Hi Aaron_Lower!
Nice RE overview, must be helpful for those unfamiliar with 🙂 A couple of things caught my attention.
legacy system restore features
What do you mean by legacy? Do we perhaps have modern in-box alternatives? System restore is as legacy as File Explorer 🙂
In Windows 10, we updated the recommendation to always list WinRE immediately after the OS partition
You did and documented this in 2015. But clean installed Windows 10 kept creating the RE partition before the OS partition for years. I think you started following your own docs only in 2020 or 2019.
I also think that simultaneously you started creating a new (second) RE partition after the OS partition during upgrades to new Windows versions.
It's kind of hard to provide proof with exact dates, but one can experiment along the lines above and see.
Can you comment on this behavior? Why didn't you follow your own recommendations in the first place? What made you change the behavior after all?
Thanks,
Vadim