Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................... 98
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 100
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 100
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 103
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 105
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 108
Using Windows tools ......................................................................................................................................... 109
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 110
Creating backups ............................................................................................................................................... 114
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 114
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Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 97
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 100
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................. 101
Using Windows Refresh or Windows Reset .................................................................................... 102
Using HP Software Setup ................................................................................................................ 102
Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 103
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................................... 103
Creating recovery media ............................................................................................... 104
Backing up your information .......................................................................................................... 104
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 105
Using Windows 7 operating system media ..................................................................................... 106
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ....................................................................... 108
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 110
What you need to know before you get started ........................................................... 110
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................ 111