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Backup and recovery
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Restore
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Creating restore media
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Performing a system restore
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Backing up and recovering your information
Your computer includes tools provided by the operating system and HP to help
you safeguard your information and restore it if ever needed.
This chapter provides information on the following topics:
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Creating a set of recovery discs or a recovery flash drive (HP Recovery
Manager software feature)
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Performing a system restore (from the partition, recovery discs, or a
recovery flash drive)
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Backing up your information
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Recovering a program or driver
Restore
In the event of hard drive failure, to restore your system to its factory image you
will need a set of recovery discs or a recovery flash drive that you can create
using HP Recovery Manager. HP recommends that you use this software to
create either a set of recovery discs or a recovery flash drive immediately after
software setup.
If for some other reason you need to restore your system, this can be achieved
using the HP Recovery partition (select models only), without the need for
recovery discs or a recovery flash drive. To check for the presence of a recovery
partition, click Start, right-click Computer, click Manage, and then click Disk
Management. If the recovery partition is present, a Recovery drive is listed in the
window.
CAUTION:
software that was preinstalled at the factory. Software not provided with this
computer must be reinstalled manually.
NOTE:
Recovery discs have been included if your computer does not have a
recovery partition.
Creating restore media
HP recommends that you create either a set of recovery discs or a recovery flash
drive to be sure that you can restore your computer to its original factory state if
the hard drive fails, or if for any reason you cannot restore using the recovery
partition tools. Create these discs or the flash drive after setting up the computer
for the first time.
HP Recovery Manager (partition or discs/flash drive) restores only
Restore
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