During a new laptop rollout, you create a hidden 15 GB partition that holds a WinPE environment and a compressed Windows 11 installation image. If the OS later becomes unbootable, a technician presses a function key to open the boot menu and starts Setup directly from that partition-no external media or network connection is required. Which boot method is the technician using to launch the installer?
Booting from a USB flash recovery drive
Booting from an internal hard-drive partition that contains the installation image
Internet-based installation that downloads Windows Setup files
The installer is launched from a self-contained partition on the internal drive. Because the installation files reside on the hard-disk partition that is already inside the system, choosing that partition as the startup device is classified as an internal hard-drive (partition) boot. The other choices rely on external USB media, a PXE network session, or downloading files from the Internet-all of which are unnecessary in this scenario.
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