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Recovery System and Hard Drive Space
HP Pavilion home PCs with Windows XP feature a recovery
partition included on the hard drive, along with a recovery
CD creator program. This program allows you to make
your own recovery CDs. The recovery process, either
application or operating system, offers the following
advantages:
Selective: Ensures that the recovery data is matched to
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the particular PC model. You can easily recover only the
application or system software you need.
Non-destructive: By recovering only the software
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you need, you preserve user data and files.
Important: The recovery CD set you create is a
complete image of the original HP Pavilion home
PC hard disk drive contents and is matched to
your model number. When using the recovery
CDs to recover the hard drive by using the full
system recovery option, any files or software that
you created, saved, or installed on the computer
will be overwritten. Therefore, please remember
to back up your files prior to using your
recovery CDs.
System recovery using recovery CDs has two options:
Standard Recovery: This is a non-destructive recovery,
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which recovers factory-shipped programs, drivers, and
the operating system without affecting any data files that
you may have created since purchasing this PC.
Full System Recovery: This recovery erases and
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reformats the hard disk drive, creates a new hard disk
partition, erases all added hard disk data, and then
reinstalls the operating system. You must reinstall any
software that was not installed on the computer at the
factory.
Instructions for using system recovery and application
recovery, as well as instructions for creating your recovery
CDs are in this guide: refer to "Using Application Recovery
and System Recovery." For information on viewing the
space used by the recovery partition on the hard drive,
as well as steps for deleting undesired software titles,
refer to "Freeing Up Space on Your Hard Disk Drive."
In the event of a warranty hard drive failure, standard
warranty terms apply: PC repair or a new imaged hard
drive that includes the Windows XP operating system and
the recovery partition, as well as all pre-loaded software
programs.
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