Gigabyte Q1585M User Manual page 27

3.1 GIGABYTE Smart Recovery
System Recovery - Restore your Q1585 operating system. The
hard drive of the Q1585 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
service will be needed.
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Launch System Recovery
The system recover feature is part of the netbook 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 netbook.
2. Turn the netbook on and press
and hold the F9 key to launch the
tool.
3. The recovery window will open
a n d g i v e y o u t h e o p t i o n t o
"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 netbook.