14 DAY TRIAL // The Redmond Company has introduced a new online destination on Monday, September 18, dedicated to the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE). The Windows RE Notes Blog will be used by the WinRE team to share information, insights and advice regarding the Windows Recovery Environment tool. Moreover, the WinRE team also revealed that the Blog is a medium designed to deliver a helping hand to Microsoft customers by providing support for Windows RE.
"Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a recovery platform based on Windows Preinstallation Encironment (WinPE). WinRE provides two main functionalities:1. Automatic diagnosis and repair of boot problems using a tool called Startup Repair. 2. A centralized platform for advanced recovery tools," stated the WinRE team.
While the WinRE team stated that it will produce additional details in upcoming posts, it did reveal that the tool embedded into Windows Vista has replaced Windows XP's recovery console, while the vast majority of tasks and features from the previous console are now integrated into WinRE.
"For Vista RC1 release, WinRE is available on the Windows installation DVD. To access WinRE, boot using the installation DVD, choose your language settings and hit "Next" and then click on "Repair Your Computer" link at the bottom of the screen. This will launch WinRE. After choosing an OS to repair, you should see all the recovery tools available in WinRE. After Windows Vista releases, WinRE will be available via other convenient means as well. For example, OEMs may pre-install WinRE on the hard disk and corporations (SA) can make WinRE available for network boot via a WDS server," concluded the WinRE team.