HP Pavilion 525 Quick Start Manual page 27

Recovery System and Hard Drive Space
HP Pavilion home PCs with Windows XP feature a recovery
partition included on the hard drive, along with a recovery
CD creator program. This program allows you to make
your own recovery CDs. The recovery process, either
application or operating system, offers the following
advantages:
Selective: Ensures that the recovery data is matched to
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the particular PC model. You can easily recover only the
application or system software you need.
Non-destructive: Recovers only the software
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you need; preserves user data and files.
System recovery using recovery CDs has two options:
Standard Recovery: This is a non-destructive recovery,
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which recovers factory-shipped programs, drivers, and
the operating system without affecting data files.
Full System Recovery: This recovery erases hard
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disk drive data, reformats the drive, creates a new disk
partition, and then installs the operating system. You must
reinstall any software that was not installed on the
computer at the factory.
Instructions for using system recovery and application
recovery, and creating your recovery CDs are in this guide:
refer to "Using Application Recovery and System Recovery."
To view the space used by the recovery partition on the
hard drive, or to delete undesired software titles, refer to
"Freeing Up Space on Your Hard Disk Drive."
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