The Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE, as you might expect) is a specialized runtime environment that boots a slimmed-down version of Windows. The Recovery Partition (3rd from left on Figure 1, 1st from left on Figure 2) provides an alternate boot environment for Windows based on Microsoft’s Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE) runtime used for the Windows installer and for other purposes. A whole drive image can also be turned into a virtual disk, or even a virtual machine. Imaging the entire boot/system drive means the whole contents of that drive can be wiped out, and restored from a backup. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) What Is a “Whole-Drive” Image Good For? Figure 2: This older Windows 10 layout has 3 Recovery partitions, only one of which is used (left).
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