Restore And Recovery; Recovering Using Hp Recovery Manager - HP Pavilion 15 Maintenance And Service Manual

Restore and recovery

There are several options for recovering your system. Choose the method that best matches your
situation and level of expertise:
Windows offers several options for restoring from backup, refreshing the computer, and resetting
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the computer to its original state. For more information and steps, see Help and Support. From the
Start screen, type help, and then select Help and Support.
If you need to correct a problem with a preinstalled application or driver, use the Drivers and
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Applications Reinstall option of HP Recovery Manager to reinstall the individual application or
driver.
From the Start screen, type recovery, select HP Recovery Manager, and then select Drivers
and Applications Reinstall, and follow the on-screen instructions.
If you want to reset your computer using a minimized image, you can choose the HP Minimized
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Image Recovery option from the HP Recovery partition or HP Recovery media. Minimized Image
Recovery installs only drivers and hardware-enabling applications. Other applications included in
the image continue to be available for installation through the Drivers and Applications Reinstall
option in HP Recovery Manager.
For more information, see
If you want to recover the computer's original factory partitioning and content, you can choose the
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System Recovery option from the HP Recovery media. For more information, see
HP Recovery Manager on page
If you have replaced the hard drive, you can use the Factory Reset option of HP Recovery media to
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restore the factory image to the replacement drive. For more information, see
Recovery Manager on page
If you wish to remove the recovery partition to reclaim hard drive space, HP Recovery Manager
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offers the Remove Recovery Partition option.
For more information, see

Recovering using HP Recovery Manager

HP Recovery Manager software allows you to recover the computer to its original factory state. Using
the HP Recovery media you created, you can choose from one of the following recovery options:
System Recovery—Reinstalls the original operating system, and then configures the settings for the
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programs that were installed at the factory.
Minimized Image Recovery—Reinstalls the operating system and all hardware-related drivers and
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software, but not other software applications.
Factory Reset—Restores the computer to the state its original factory state by deleting all
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information from the hard drive and re-creating the partitions. Then it reinstalls the operating
system and the software that was installed at the factory.
The HP Recovery partition (select models only) allows System Recovery and Minimized Image Recovery.
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