Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) How-to Topics
Applies To: Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows® Recovery Environment (Windows RE) is a recovery environment that can repair common causes of unbootable operating systems, in addition to including push-button reset features that enable your users to repair their PCs quickly while preserving their data and important customizations.
This section describes how to customize Windows RE and push-button reset recovery images on a Windows system.
In This Section
Customize Windows® Recovery Environment (Windows RE) by adding packages (Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE optional components), languages, drivers, and custom diagnostic or troubleshooting tools. |
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Add a custom troubleshooting or diagnostic tool to your Windows RE image. |
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Configure a hardware recovery button (or button combination) to run a secondary boot path that contains Windows RE. |
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Deploy a Windows RE tools image, including any built-in custom tools, to a hard drive partition. |
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Bare Metal Reset/Recovery: Enable Your Users to Create Media and to Recover Hard Drive Space |
Customize push-button reset by adding scripts or executable files. |
Create a bootable push-button reset USB drive. |
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Customize push-button reset to create recovery media for your users. You can also prepare Windows to enable your users to create their own recovery media. |
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Create a push-button reset recovery image, and then deploy push-button reset with customizations. |
See Also
Concepts
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) Overview
Push-Button Reset Overview
Other Resources
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) Reference
WinPE for Windows 8: Windows PE 5.0