WinPE and the Death of Recovery Console
Windows kept a dirty little secret for years. When you installed Windows from the bootable installation media (usually a CD or DVD), it actually booted up a copy of the ancient DOS operating system. You never saw DOS because an installation screen covered it up, but it lurked beneath the surface (Figure 3-1).
Figure 3-1 Windows XP install screen—it’s really DOS.
With later versions of Windows XP and certainly with Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft upgraded the installation environment from 16-bit to 32- and 64-bit. This upgrade enabled the Windows installation process to go graphical and support ...
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