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Re:Windows Recovery Environment and Bootable USB Creator in ... by userbinator on Friday July 26, 2024 @11:23PM (#41084240)
AFAIK the "Windows Recovery Environment" is actually a stripped-down minimal version of Windows missing most of the normal userland and parts of the kernel, which people have extended and customised in various ways.
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Re:Windows Recovery Environment and Bootable USB Creator in ... by windozedev on Friday July 26, 2024 @11:30PM (#41084259)
The overall design was inspired by the simple text based ui of clockworkmod recovery for android. There are zero dependencies as well.
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Re:Windows Recovery Environment and Bootable USB Creator in ... by robotnikman on Saturday July 27, 2024 @03:38PM (#41088806)
>clockworkmod recovery

Now there's something I haven't heard of in a while. I remember using it on the original Droid phone when messing with roms

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