That once was the case but MS stopped that "free" download practice sometime after W7 came out, purchase only then. I got an ISO of the WinRE using a Torrent download.

Never had W8/8.1 but I thought the Repair CD stopped at W8 when they went to a Repair USB flash drive? The Repair CD/USB flash drive does offer the system restore point option too. I do know that a...

Are you on a dual-boot setup and had W10 as your default drive? Either way, look into Diskparts usage if you can get into the command line. Using "unassign"/"assign" after selecting the drive and...

I use Paragon HDM15S and used it to restore their PVHD backup after finding out that W10TP 9879 doesn't like a clean boot at all, it wouldn't boot up. The second time yesterday after being infected...