He slid the drive into the port and mashed the F12 key. The screen flickered, and instead of the dreaded blue error message, a minimalist, translucent taskbar appeared. This was the "Special Edition"—a stripped-down, 64-bit universe that lived entirely in the computer’s RAM, ignoring the dead hard drives below it.
Since WinPESE does not lock the system drive, you can copy files from a dead Windows installation to an external drive, even if the OS no longer boots. winpese-x64