Creating A Restoreplus! Dvd; Restoring Your System From Restoreplus! Dvds; Restoring Your System From Restoreplus! On The Recovery Partition; Reclaiming Hard Drive Space From The Recovery Partition - HP Xw6600 - Workstation - 2 GB RAM Technical Reference Manual

CAUTION:
process deletes everything on the primary hard drive, including the Windows partition and the recovery
partition.

Creating a RestorePlus! DVD

You can create a set of the system recovery DVDs if you have a writable optical drive. When you first
boot the workstation, you are prompted to create DVDs for RestorePlus!, the Windows operating system,
and a supplemental HP Backup and Recovery Manager. (There might be additional DVDs you can
create, depending on the options purchased.) You also have the option to move DVD images to another
location, such as a network share, to be copied to DVD at a later time, or from another system.

Restoring your system from RestorePlus! DVDs

Start the RestorePlus! process by booting from the RestorePlus! DVD.

Restoring your system from RestorePlus! on the recovery partition

Follow these steps to start the RestorePlus! process from the Emergency Recovery menu:
1. Boot the workstation.
2. When prompted during the boot process to select the Emergency Recovery menu, press
F11 prompt appears briefly during the boot process.
If you have a recovery partition but the F11 prompt is not visible:
a. To access the setup menu, press F10.
b. From the drop down menu, select Advanced.
c. Select Power-On Options.
d. Ensure that the F11 prompt is set to Displayed.
e. Ensure that Factory Recovery Boot Support is set to Enabled.
f. Reboot the workstation and press
3. Select Recover PC's factory installed operating system, drivers, utilities, and applications
from the Emergency Recovery menu.
NOTE: Some applications might not be restored using this method.

Reclaiming hard drive space from the recovery partition

The recovery partition can be removed to reclaim the hard drive space.
CAUTION:
- The F11 Emergency Recovery function becomes unavailable.
- The ability to recover the system from data on the recovery partition is lost.
- Any recovery images contained in the recovery partition are deleted.
- The ability to create a recovery media set is lost.
To gain unused hard drive space, you can remove only the recovery partition, or you can completely
uninstall the HP Backup and Recovery Manager application.
18 Chapter 2 Configuring and restoring the operating system
Before you attempt any operating system restore, back up your data. The RestorePlus!
If the recovery partition is removed:
F11 when prompted.
F11 . The
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