Hey everyone! I'm curious about the differences between Windows Recovery Environment (RE) on your local disk versus running it from a bootable USB drive. Are there any significant distinctions that I should be aware of? Thanks in advance!
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The main difference is that you can access the USB version even if your installation is so messed up that it can't boot into its own recovery environment. It's a lifesaver when things go wrong!
Honestly, I don’t see a big difference. I've lost my recovery and EFI boot environments plenty of times, especially when upgrading hard drives. I’m not even sure if I still have it—just the EFI partition remains!
Ugh, I wish I had asked this sooner! My PC is throwing a bad sys config 0x74 error. I tried fixing the BCD and spent ages trying to get the local RE to work, but then I deleted the partition. After updating Windows 11, the same day it just started erroring. I'm probably going to reinstall now. Thanks!