David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Windows Recovery Environment (RE), as the name suggests, is a built-in set of tools inside Windows that allow you to troubleshoot your computer, including booting into the BIOS, or starting the ...

A Windows security update bug has prevented some Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 users from booting into their PCs, requiring them ...

A few unfortunate users of the Windows 11 October 2025 update (and Windows Server 2025) may have stumbled upon a critical issue where the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) failed to pick up mouse ...

We will show you the following two ways to recover your data from an unbootable hard drive in Windows 11/10. Using the Command Prompt Using UI in Windows Recovery Environment Since your laptop has ...

It is probably fair to say that that the week has been a very eventful one when it comes to Windows Recovery. The first Patch Tuesday WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) updates for Windows 11 25H2 ...

This week, Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday update for November 2024. On the Windows 10 side we have KB5046613, KB5046615, KB5046612, KB5046665, and the Windows 11 side we have KB5046617, ...

The Recovery Partition does not have a drive letter. Therefore, it is not visible in the File Explorer. You can view it in the Disk Management app. However, some users found the Recovery Partition ...

The "recovery image location" is normally blank and the index is 0 because you're using the standard recovery image built into Windows. This is not the recovery ENVIRONMENT's location. The RE is just ...