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Booting in WinRE Windows 10: no Internet access!?
Hello all,
This might be a stupid and silly question but I did not find any clear answer about this feature of standard wired Ethernet networking when a PC is booted in WinRE from an ISO install disc.
Till today, I believed that such an Internet access was natural and possible but I just discovered my laptop does not access the Internet from the Windows Recovery Environment. I checked in the command console:
- The green and yellow LEDs from the network adapter look to be active but the yellow one related to the Ethernet traffic blinks once from time to time, like my system would send some frames periodically
- It does not get an IP address from the DHCP server of my Internet router
- Not even an APIPA address by itself
- The ipconfi.exe utility does not show anything, not event the hostname automatically allocated to the machine when booting in WinRE and starting with "MININT"
- I tried a ping command to reach my expected gateway and I got an error message: "Unable to connect IP driver. General failure"
- I checked with another laptop: same outcome!
Just to add that it looks to me that any laptop is capable of TCP/IP network over its Ethernet NIC with PXE boot implemented in BIOS or UEFI firmware and I can see my network adapter as recognized for PXE booting over IPv4 or IPv6 as booting options when I manually access the boot menu at startup. Furthermore my hardware is standard: an HP ProBook 430 G5 laptop from 2019 with well-known components inside. Same behavior with a Dell Latitude 5450 laptop when booting in different WinRE environments from different Windows 10 builds.
Is there anything I do wrong or is this lack of Internet access not possible in WinRE "by design"?
Thanks in advance for your help!