Do I need to have Windows Recovery Environment enabled?

What happens if it is disabled? I have a perfectly working Acronis backup image of the entire drive, so do I need WRE at all? I love it that I can simply go back to all my updates, apps, and preferences reinstalled with my image. I am using Windows 10.

The Windows recovery partition is not required.

It can be deleted and relocated.



There are times in which there are problems with backup images:

a) those saved to another drive: drive or drive connection problems

b) those saved to the cloud: network and/or internet problems

Ghot said:

Personal choice.
I don't use/or have a Recovery partition.

But... I use Macrium Reflect and it's bootable rescue media has, among other things... a command prompt.

Yes, Acronis also allows me to boot outside of Windows.

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pepanee said:

According to this site, you can easily disable and enable it:
Enable or Disable Windows Recovery Environment in Windows 10

So if you disabled it, and really need to use it again, you can easily re-enable it.

Thank you. Good to know.

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Thanks to all. I am good to go now.

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Steve C said:

Play with the options in WRE (using Shift + Restart) and you will see there are some useful options there. Have you ever tested recovery from your Acronis backup to know it is reliable?

I keep two to three recovery points just in case one fails. None of them have ever failed.