Recent content by Bookworm

This is extremely misleading. The recovery _utility_ is often part of the CMOS, but the recovery media is _absolutely_ stored on the hard drive. I can't imagine a manufacturer being willing to install 20 GB of NAND flash to a system, just to make sure you could reinstall if your hard drive...

What you're seeing is more than one thing. First, the HDBR partitions are the Hard Disk Boot Recovery partitions. If you've created the 'factory restore' disks/flash drive image, you can safely nuke those - on any computer. WinRE, is Windows Recovery/Repair Environment. (Where startup...