There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

All this is assuming you can still boot into Windows 11/10 in a regular way. If you cannot, the only way is to use a bootable USB drive. You can then use the advanced recovery. Reset Windows Format ...

I think I might need a recovery sort of disc for my relative just in case, but this is for an HP box that only came with the wipe&reimage kind of "recovery" disc.<BR><BR>Or should I just make a copy ...

Before Windows was created, the most common operating system that ran on IBM PC compatibles was DOS. DOS stands for Disk Operating System and was what you would use if you had started your computer ...