Selecting A Language; Creating Recovery Disks; Installing Or Upgrading Device Drivers; Restoring The Windows Xp Professional Operating System - HP Xw4550 - Workstation - 2 GB RAM Technical Reference Manual

Selecting a language

At the first boot of the factory preinstalled operating system, you might be prompted to select a language
for the operating system. After selecting the language, read and follow the instructions on the screen
to complete the configuration of the operating system. This process might take quite a while, depending
on the system hardware configuration and the language choice. During the process, do not power off
your workstation unless you are directed to do so.
NOTE: After you have selected a language during initial boot of the operating system, the language
will be locked-in on the hard drive. If the system is restored with HP Backup and Recovery, only the
previously selected language can be installed. If using RestorePlus! DVDs, the RestorePlus! DVD
checks for the language stored on the hard drive and restores only the original preinstalled language.
If a new hard drive is installed or no language is found on the disk, the RestorePlus! DVD installs any
language requested.

Creating recovery disks

When a new operating system is installed, you are prompted to create recovery disks. Refer to
the Windows XP Professional operating system on page 19
process.

Installing or upgrading device drivers

Required drivers must be installed after you configure the operating system, and before you install their
respective hardware devices. In addition, for optimum performance, your operating system must have
the most recent updates, patches, and software fixes. Access the following resources for driver and
software updates:
●
See the Microsoft site to obtain updates for your operating system, including current patches and
software fixes.
● Device drivers are provided on a CD supplied with the peripheral device.
●
Some peripheral device drivers developed for Windows XP or Vista might not be shipped with your
workstation. To locate the current device drivers, see:
workstation_swdrivers.
●
For documentation on installing drivers and workstation operation, see:
support/workstation_manuals

Restoring the Windows XP Professional operating system

Your workstation has several methods to restore your Windows XP operating system to a near-factory
state, or to the state of the system at a predefined snapshot in time. Your system has a recovery partition
on the system hard drive that contains software and data required for the restore process as described
in the following sections.

The RestorePlus! process

The Windows operating system and device drivers (for devices shipped with the system) are reinstalled
using this process. Some application software may not be restored using the RestorePlus! process. In
this case you must install the application software from the appropriate application CD. The RestorePlus!
process can be executed from CD or from the recovery partition contained on your system hard drive.
CAUTION:
Windows partition will be deleted when you restore using the RestorePlus! process. However, the
recovery partition on the system drive and other partitions should not be affected.
ENWW
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Back up your data before you attempt any operating system restore. All data on the
for details on the HP Backup and Recovery
http://www.hp.com/support/
Setting up Microsoft Windows XP Professional software
Restoring
http://www.hp.com/
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