Table Of Contents - HP Compaq Presario,Presario C500 User Manual

Table of contents

1 Updating software
Updating the BIOS ............................................................................................................................... 2
Updating software programs and drivers ............................................................................................. 4
2 Recovering system information
Backing up your information ................................................................................................................. 6
When to back up .................................................................................................................. 6
Back up suggestions ............................................................................................................ 6
Using system restore points ................................................................................................................. 7
When to create restore points .............................................................................................. 7
Create a system restore point .............................................................................................. 7
Restore to a previous date and time .................................................................................... 7
Creating recovery discs ........................................................................................................................ 8
Reinstalling software programs and drivers ......................................................................................... 9
Reinstalling preinstalled programs and drivers .................................................................... 9
Reinstalling programs from discs ......................................................................................... 9
Performing a recovery ........................................................................................................................ 10
Recovering from the recovery discs .................................................................................. 10
Recovering from the partition on the hard drive ................................................................. 10
Deleting the recovery partition on the hard drive ................................................................................ 11
Updating reinstalled software ............................................................................................................. 12
Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 13
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