ESP dual boot Windows 10

[Liam Proven]

On 24 December 2016 at 12:43, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you know or surmise that Volume 1 was an emergency copy of enough
> of Windows to re-install?  What does "enough" mean here?

A mixture of experience and logic.

#1 It's not the Windows boot partition and it's not the ESP one. So
it's something else.
#2 It's designed to replace Windows if Windows is borked, so it can't
depend on Windows
#3 It's very VERY unlikely that a Windows kit vendor would use another
OS to re-image Windows
#4 So, logically, it's a copy of stripped-down Windows used to
re-image C: if you destroy it.

> If volume 3, "push button", is an OEM installation of Windows it has a
> fairly hefty replacement cost.

Why do you think I'm suggesting getting rid of it?

> I like the notion of booting to the emergency environment to write to
> removable media.  I'll have to double check, but from the control panel I
> didn't see any recovery options at all.  I'll try shift-reboot.

Google:

"your model number" "windows" "recovery"

... or some variants like that.


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