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Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations, and servers, or troubleshooting an operating system while it is offline. It is intended to replace MS-DOS boot disks and can be booted via USB flash drive, PXE, iPXE, [1] CD, DVD, or hard ...
Windows File Recovery can recover files from a local hard disk drive (HDD), USB flash drive, or memory card such as an SD card. [4][5] It can work to some extent with solid-state drives (SSD). [6] The program is run using the winfr command. [4] It has a mode designed for NTFS file systems, that will attempt recovery of files from a disk that is ...
Rufus was originally designed [4] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [5] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [6]), was released on December 04, 2011, with originally ...
System Restore. System Restore is a feature in Microsoft Windows that allows the user to revert their computer's state (including system files, installed applications, Windows Registry, and system settings) to that of a previous point in time, which can be used to recover from system malfunctions or other problems.
In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way. [1] The data is most often salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives (HDDs ...
The terms Recovery disc (or Disk), Rescue Disk /Disc and Emergency Disk[1] all refer to a capability to boot from an external device, possibly a thumb drive, that includes a self-running operating system: the ability to be a boot disk /Disc that runs independent of an internal hard drive that may be failing, or for some other reason is not the ...
[81] [82] [83] Windows 8 also provides integrated system recovery through the new "Refresh" and "Reset" functions, [84] including system recovery from USB drive. [85] Windows 8's first security patches would be released on November 13, 2012; it would contain three fixes deemed "critical" by the company.
Backup and Restore[1] (formerly Backup and Restore Center[2]) is the primary backup component of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can create file and folder backups, as well as system images backups, to be used for recovery in the event of data corruption, hard disk drive failure, or malware infection. It replaces NTBackup, which has been part ...