HP Pavilion DV6-1378 Maintenance And Service Manual page 236

If you want to perform a destructive recovery:
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A destructive recovery formats the hard drive and restores the
computer to its factory state. Select this option only as a
last resort.
a. Click Advanced Options on the System Recovery screen.
b. Select Destructive Recovery and follow the on-screen
Deleting the Recovery Partition on the
Hard Drive
The PC Recovery Advanced Options menu provides the option of
deleting the recovery partition, which will increase space on the
hard drive. Delete the recovery partition only if you have already
created recovery discs.
CAUTION: After you create the recovery discs, you can increase
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space on the hard drive by deleting the recovery partition. However,
doing this is not recommended. If you delete this partition, you will lose
any information that is on the partition, including the PC Recovery
software. Thereafter, you must use the recovery discs to access PC
Recovery software.
To delete the recovery partition:
1. If you have not already created recovery discs, create
them now.
2. Select Start > All Programs > System Recovery >
PC Recovery.
The PC Recovery tool opens.
3. Select PC Recovery and click Next.
The computer restarts and the PC Recovery tools opens.
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