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I restarted it and ran it again. This time it was 7.

EDIT: the first time I had a loading box that clearly said loading win 8.1 recovery, the second time it didn't show any loading box. But, after booting into the program I went into recovery and it showed Windows 7.

SIW2 said:

I have no idea what that post above yours is , Wolfgang .

Whose post and what's the problem

Spam, it has been removed.

It's interesting. Macrium now recommends and makes a PE4 iso even on Windows 7.

It's all confusing to me.
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kado897 said:

It's interesting. Macrium now recommends and makes a PE4 iso even on Windows 7.

Actually, two or three updates ago, MR came out with a PE5. I think Win 8 was its target but it works just fine in Win 7.

Yes I noticed that but PE4 is the default even on a Win7 system.

This from MR:

Windows PE 5.0
Macrium Reflect now includes the option to create Windows PE 5.0 rescue media. Windows PE 5.0 is based on Windows 8.1 and provides the latest Windows kernel and driver database. Windows PE 5.0 rescue media can be created with all Windows operating systems except for Windows XP.

If you are using winpe downloaded from waik/wadk, it does not include windows recovery options.

That is one reason why using winre.wim from your hard drive is better.

However, if you are using winpe.wim from waik/wadk, it doesn't which you use on 7. Both 8 and 8.1 have built in support for (most) usb3, so that saves adding usb drivers, which you would probably do with win7 waik winpe.wim . No big deal, it is easy to do.

SIW2 said:

No big deal, it is easy to do.

I suspect that some people (e.g. me) might not find it easy to do.

What is the best way to back up and extract installed drivers?