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Deployment and manual installation guide for Eshaan's Recovery Environment.

About ERE

ERE is a Windows 11 based recovery environment designed for enterprise technicians and advanced users. It provides a complete Windows environment with troubleshooting and deployment utilities.

Manual Installation Using ESD

Advanced users can deploy ERE manually using the provided ESD image.

Requirements

UEFI compatible system
GPT partitioned disk
Windows installation media or recovery environment
DISM and BCDBoot

Apply the Image

dism /Apply-Image ^
 /ImageFile:ERE.esd ^
 /Index:1 ^
 /ApplyDir:W:\

Create Boot Files

After applying ERE, create the UEFI boot entry:

bcdboot W:\Windows /s S: /f UEFI

Driver Installation

Drivers can be injected before first boot.

dism /Image:W:\ ^
 /Add-Driver ^
 /Driver:D:\Drivers ^
 /Recurse

Installer Method

The recommended method is using the ERE installer. It automatically prepares the disk, applies the image, installs drivers, and creates the boot entry.

Disk Layout

GPT Disk
|
+-- ESP (FAT32)
|
+-- ERE (NTFS)
    |
    +-- Windows 11
    +-- Recovery Tools
    +-- Utilities

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