Windows 10: How to disable Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)

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The Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is crucial to your Windows system. It features tools and utilities in Microsoft Windows operating systems, such as Startup Repair, System restore, System image recovery, Reset PC, etc. You can troubleshoot and recover your system from various system problems and errors using these tools. However, some users might want to […]

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Questions regarding the Windows Recovery Environment partition (WinRe)

I phrased that wrong, I meant to say that I took everything off the Hard Drive until around 50GB of space was used then copied it over to the 250GB mSATA SDD. Probably too much detail for the purposes of these questions. The new drive boots into Windows fine, but the "WINRE" partition was not transferred over.

Here are the new mSATA SDD partitions:




And here are the old Hard Drive partitions:




On the old Hard Drive, the 872mb "Recovery" partition on the right is probably just left over from when this laptop used Windows 8. But the 300mb "WINRE" partition on the left is what is used by Windows 10's Windows Recovery Environment for certain restore and troubleshooting functionality.

Edit: I should probably further clarify that I am concerned about the long-term health of my laptop without the WinRe partition, as I tend to keep computers for a very long time.

Edit: Edit: Oops, I am still saying it wrong. I meant to say that only 50GB of space was USED, not LEFT

 

Windows Recovery Environment

Hi,

As per your concern, Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a recovery environment that can repair common causes of unbootable operating systems. Setting up a security permission to access WinRE is not possible as it is a way to access computer especially
if you have issues trying to get in to the system.

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Recovery Environment (WinRe) question

I wiped out the factory restore option ages ago when I clean installed from a Media Creation Tool created USB flash drive so it will be standard WinRe. I think Ghot has probably nailed it when he suggested it could be a deliberate timing setting but Thanks for your help pal