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RECON

RECON

Recovery & Repair Console — a build-your-own bootable technician USB, in the spirit of the old Geek Squad MRI disc, assembled entirely from free, legitimately licensed tools.

Build the USB Boot & use

RECON boots its own mini-Windows (WinPE) from a flash drive, so a technician can browse and copy files off a machine's drives without the user's Windows password, repair a Windows that won't start, clean up junk, reset a local password, and recover product keys — all from outside the installed operating system.

The one hard line: encryption is never bypassed

Drives protected by BitLocker (or other encryption) require the owner's recovery key to unlock. RECON surfaces locked drives and helps you unlock them with the key — it never circumvents encryption. See the Safety model.

What it does

Area What you get
Files Browse any drive and copy data off to a backup drive, with no password — the headline data-recovery feature.
Repair Center Clean up junk, repair Windows system files (SFC/DISM/chkdsk), check disk health, remove a program from a Windows that won't boot, and reset a local account's password.
System A hardware read-out (make/model, serial, CPU, RAM, drives) for the job ticket.
RECON Live A Windows app (runs on the booted PC) whose first module is a thorough program uninstaller.

Who it's for

Technicians working on PCs they own or are authorized to service — data recovery, cleanup, Windows repair, local-password reset, and product-key recovery. RECON is a recovery and repair toolbox, not a security-bypass tool; see Safety model for the boundaries it enforces.

How it's built

Not a redistribution of MRI

RECON does not redistribute, crack, or depend on Best Buy's proprietary MRI software. It is an original, reproducible build of an equivalent toolset that you own.

Project status

RECON is under active development. These docs describe current behaviour and flag in-progress pieces explicitly. Start with Build the USB.