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How do you recreate the System Recovery environment in Windows 7?

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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 default as part of the Windows 7 installation. Howe…

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For recovery on F8 you need: a special loader entry and a device options entry in the BCD and two files on disk: "winre.wim" + "boot.sdi" and some linking between them. I have posted here -->Windows 7 boot some info on "good" BCD entries created dur…

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