Backing Up, Restoring, And Recovering; Creating Recovery Media And Backups; Creating Hp Recovery Media - HP Spectre 13 Pro Ultrabook Maintenance Manual

7 Backing up, restoring, and
recovering
This chapter provides information about the following processes:
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Creating recovery media and backups

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Restoring and recovering your system
Creating recovery media and backups
1.
After you successfully set up the computer, create HP Recovery media. This step creates a backup
of the HP Recovery partition on the computer. The backup can be used to reinstall the original
operating system in cases where the hard drive is corrupted or has been replaced.
HP Recovery media you create will provide the following recovery options:
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System Recovery—Reinstalls the original operating system and the programs that were
installed at the factory.
● Minimized Image Recovery—Reinstalls the operating system and all hardware-related drivers
and software, but not other software applications.
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Factory Reset—Restores the computer to its original factory state by deleting all 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.
See Creating HP Recovery media on page
2.
Use the Windows tools to create system restore points and create backups of personal
information. For more information and steps, see Help and Support. From the Start screen, type
help, and then select Help and Support.

Creating HP Recovery media

HP Recovery Manager is a software program that offers a way to create recovery media after you
successfully set up the computer. HP Recovery media can be used to perform system recovery if the
hard drive becomes corrupted. System recovery reinstalls the original operating system and the
software programs installed at the factory, and then configures the settings for the programs. HP
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