Creating and Starting the Recovery Environment

Previous editions of the Recovery Environment and the IT Edition included a pre-built Windows environment. Microsoft discontinued the distribution of the pre-built environment, which made it necessary for users to manually create the environment using the Recovery Environment Builder (REBuilder).

REBuilder is a simple tool that creates a Windows-based Recovery Environment ISO (called the Recovery Environment for Windows). The created ISO works the same as previous editions of the ShadowProtect Recovery Environment to restore system volumes.

Requirements

Using REBuilder requires:

• Windows 7 or newer Operating Systems
• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK): Deployment Tools and Windows Pre-installation Environment.

Download and install Windows ADK 11. If the supported ADK is not installed, REBuilder will prompt you to install it. The latest supported version is ADK for Windows 11, version 22H2 (version: 10.1.22621.1).

Note: If REBuilder cannot detect the installed ADK, uninstall the ADK and the Windows PE add-on, then install the ADK and Windows PE add-on for Windows 11, version 22H2.

Refer to the Requirements page for details.

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