Windows 10: Does a Windows Recovery drive contain the name of the computer the drive was made on?

I have two Dell PCs, and I would like to know on which of the two PC's this drive was created, presumably by drilling down within File Explorer into the recovery software itself.


Both computers are Win 10 64-bit, one year apart in age, and likely I could use this recovery drive on either one.


But my question here today is whether the computer name on which the drive was created can be found anywhere in the created recovery software by drilling down in File Explorer, and if so how.

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Recovery Drive

Hi,

Thank you for posting your concern. In some cases, this could happen if you created a system restore point on your computer. Windows will use the recovery drive to revert to the previous time where your computer is working properly, or where you created
it. Please don't attempt to put any files in the recovery drive or the restore process will fail. To give you more suggestion and helpful information, we would like to more about your computer. Please answer the question below:

• Did you make any changes to your computer before this issue occurs?
• Have you install Windows Update before getting the Recovery drive?
• Which version of Windows are you using? To check it, follow the steps through this
  link.
  

In the meantime, you can check the files inside the recovery drive and confirm if there are essential files that you need.

We'll be waiting for your response.

 

What does the Win10 Recovery contain?


Are you using the built-in Windows 10 function to create a Recovery Drive (as opposed to a recovery utility provided by your computer's manufacturer)? If it's the built-in function then it would have looked like the steps here:
Recovery Drive - Create in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

If it is the built-in version then from my own experience I believe it does contain drivers.

You would have needed to select the option to 'Back up System files to the Recovery Drive' to create a recovery drive which can install Windows; however this option doesn't always work.

The normal Recovery Drive won't contain applications unless the computer came with Windows 10 from new, in which case it might do.

If the computer didn't have Windows 10 from new, there is a way you can capture applications yourself; if you did this (and if you can use the option to backup system files) it will include applications and other folders from your system drive (but not the Users folder) in the Recovery Drive.
Provisioning Package - Create in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

difference between windows installiation media and windows recovery drive

As the name suggests,

• WIM or installation media is used to install Windows on to the computer.whereas
• Recovery drive is created to repair your computer in case if it wont start or throw any startup error.