It can help you quickly restore your computer to a good status.īut if your hard drive has multiple recovery partitions, just like the following picture, you can choose delete the nonfunctional recovery partitions to free up disk space. Thus, it’s not suggested to delete Windows Recovery Environment Partition, especially for personal users.

Though Windows RE is not required to start Windows, it’s really important when your computer is not bootable. It contains several recovery tools that allows you to install, upgrade, reinstall or repair your computer when it’s unbootable.įor example, when your computer goes wrong, such as, failed startup attempts, unexpected shutdowns, security boot errors etc, Startup Repair will be invoked automatically to diagnosis and repair problems it can. It usually keeps on the same partition where you install Windows or hidden system reserved partition or factory made OEM partition. It is based on Windows Preinstallation Environment, and can be customized by adding different languages, device drivers, new diagnostic tools etc. Here what we say Windows Recovery Environment Partition is an image file created by Microsoft and store as a winre.wim file on device hard drive or SSD in Windows 10/8.1/8/7.

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