The recovery Environment for Windows

The Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) is a recovery environment that fixes common problems that fail to start the operating system. The Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) is the smallest Win32 operating system with limited services. Windows RE is built on the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) and can be customized with additional drivers, languages, Windows PE optional components, and other troubleshooting and diagnostics tools. Windows RE is preloaded by default in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 installations. This section describes troubleshooting using the Windows Recovery Environment.

How to turn on Windows RE mode

Now that you've built it, how do you get into Windows RE mode under Windows 8?

L in Windows, open the "Set" super button à "more computer settings" à "general". In advanced startup, click Restart Now.

L in Windows, open the Settings Super button, and then hold down the Shift key while you click Restart.

L RUN the SHUTDOWN/R/o command from the command prompt.

L Use recovery media to start the computer. (You need to create a Windows system repair disc, and so on, see Creating the System repair disc in the previous article)

Non-user autonomous automatic boot out of Windows RE environment

L When the system does not load properly in two minutes (crash, unexpected shutdown, etc.)

L Two boot failure

L encountered a sector startup error

L BitLocker Error

Any of these methods can go into Windows RE mode, but in some cases you will need to provide an account and password with administrator or equivalent privileges.

Figure 1 using the first way to get into the Windows RE environment screen

As a Windows RE environment, you are already exposed to this environment when you read "Creating a system repair disc," as a powerful maintenance and protection environment, and you have an understanding of him, following the guidance of the author to guide you to understand and apply the Windows RE environment of other modules.

Use advanced options

Below the troubleshooter we can see many advanced usage methods

Figure 2 The content under the advanced options