Updating the BIOS .............................................................................................................................................. 100
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................. 102
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 106
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 109
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 109
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 112
Using Windows tools ......................................................................................................................................... 113
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 114
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Determining the BIOS version ......................................................................................................... 100
Downloading a BIOS update ............................................................................................................ 101
Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 104
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................................... 104
Creating recovery media ............................................................................................... 105
Backing up your information .......................................................................................................... 105
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 106
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 109
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................. 110
Using Windows operating system media (purchased separately) ................................................. 111
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ....................................................................... 112
What you need to know before you get started ........................................................... 114
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................ 115
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ....................................... 116