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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Not really if it’s corrupted chances are the recovery is also corrupted, full on recovery usually asks for windows 10 cd/usb so it can compare to whatever it is. Not worth the time and hassle. Windows recover in a situation like this will most likely cause more problems. A fresh install literally takes minutes if you have an ssd.
gpt
Yes but you are assuming corruption from the start, rather than troubleshooting and ending with a conclusion that corruption is the issue. Corruption might not be the issue at all. Also, you can perform a fresh install from the recovery screen, there’s an option to do a full reset. The days when you needed an ISO on a flash drive for something like this are receding. Do we still need them? Yes, at my work we use USB staging drives to do this, but that’s mostly to ensure compliance with the network infrastructure. On a personal PC like this, the recovery tool can be quite useful for fixing these issues