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Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb

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195 points _ol1s | 2 comments | 27 Jul 24 02:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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userbinator ◴[27 Jul 24 03:23 UTC] No.41084240[source]▶
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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1. windozedev ◴[27 Jul 24 03:30 UTC] No.41084259[source]▶
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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2. robotnikman ◴[27 Jul 24 19:38 UTC] No.41088806[source]▶
>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