Gigabyte Smart Recovery - Gigabyte T1000 Series User Manual

3.2 GIGABYTE Smart Recovery

System Recovery - Restore your T1000/T1005 Operating System
The hard drive of the T1000/T1005 has a hidden partition that
contains a full backup image of the operating system that can be
used to recover the system in the event that something happens to
the operating system.
If the hard drive is removed or the partition deleted, the
recover options will no longer be available and a recovery
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service will be needed.
Launch System Recovery
The System Recover feature is part of the notebook installation and
it ships preset from the factory. The Options menu allows you to
launch the Windows Recovery tool to reinstall the operating system
to factory defaults.
Below will briefly describe how to launch the Recovery Tool and to
get the recovery started.
1. Turn off or restart the notebook.
2. Turn the notebook on and press and hold the F9 key to launch
the tool.
3. The recovery window will open
and give you the option to
"Recovery" in the toolbar. You
will be prompted if you want to
recovery. Click on "Recovery" to
begin the repair if you do.
4. The "Recovering" window will
open and begin the recovery.
5. Once it is complete you will be
prompted to reboot the notebook.