Gigabyte Smart Recovery - Gigabyte A1840 Series User Manual

3.1 GIGABYTE Smart Recovery

System Recovery - Restore your A1840 operating system.
The hard drive of the A1840 has a hidden partition that contains
a full backup image of the operating system that can be used to
recover the system in the event that something happens to the
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operating system.
If the hard drive is removed or the partition deleted, the recover
options will no longer be available and a recovery service will be
needed.
Launch System Recovery:
The system recover feature is part of the netbook installation and
it ships preset from the factory. The options menu allows you to
launch the Windows recovery tool to reinstall the operating system
to factory defaults. Below will briefly describe how to launch the
recovery tool and to get the recovery started.
1. Turn off or restart the netbook.
2. Turn the netbook on and press and
hold the F9 key to launch the tool.
3. The recovery window will open and
give you the option to "Recovery" in
the toolbar. You will be prompted if you
want to recovery. Click on "Recovery"
to begin the repair if you do.
4. The "Recovering" window will open
and begin the recovery.
5. O n c e i t i s c o m p l e t e y o u w i l l b e
prompted to reboot the computer.
Please be noted that the GIGABYTE Smart Recovery interface,
icons, utilities and software versions may vary based on the
purchased models. Please operate GIGABYTE Smart Recovery
according to the default built-in version.