Selecting A Language; Creating Recovery Disks; Installing Or Upgrading Device Drivers; Restoring The Windows Vista Business Operating System - HP xw4550 Service And Technical Reference Manual

For complete operating system installation and configuration instructions, see the operating system
documentation provided with your workstation. Additional information is available in the online help tool
after you successfully configure the operating system.

Selecting a language

At the first boot of the factory preinstalled operating system, you might be prompted to select a language
for the operating system. After selecting the language, read and follow the instructions on the screen
to complete configuration of the operating system. This process might take quite a while, depending on
the system hardware configuration and the language choice. During the process, do not power off your
workstation unless you are directed to do so.
NOTE: After you have selected a language during initial boot of the operating system, the language
will be locked in on the hard drive. If the system is restored with HP Backup and Recovery, only the
previously selected language can be installed. If using RestorePlus! DVDs, the RestorePlus! DVD
checks for the language stored on the hard drive and restores only the original preinstalled language.
If a new hard drive is installed or no language is found on the disk, the RestorePlus! DVD installs any
language requested.

Creating recovery disks

Refer to Restoring the Windows Vista Business operating system on page 16
Backup and Recovery process.

Installing or upgrading device drivers

Required device drivers must be installed after you configure the operating system, and before you
install their respective hardware devices. In addition, for optimum performance, your operating system
must have the most recent updates, patches, and software fixes. Access the following resources for
driver and software updates:
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See the Microsoft site to obtain updates for your operating system, including current patches and
software fixes.
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Device drivers are provided on a CD supplied with the peripheral device.
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Some peripheral device drivers developed for Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Microsoft
Windows Vista Business might not be shipped with your workstation. To locate the current device
drivers, see: http://www.hp.com/support/workstation_swdrivers.
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For documentation on installing drivers and workstation operation, see:
support/workstation_manuals

Restoring the Windows Vista Business operating system

Your workstation has a several methods to restore your Windows Vista operating system to a near-
factory state, or to the state of the system at a predefined restore point. Your system has a recovery
partition on the system hard drive that contains software and data required for the restore process as
described in the following sections.
NOTE: If you must restore the operating system with Windows Vista Business OEM DVDs (installing
without using the Restore Plus! DVDs), you must call Microsoft to provide a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)
number. The SKU information is on the service tag and is the OS product number in the lower right hand
section of the tag. It should display "OS: XXXXXXX," where "XXXXXXX" is the OS product number.
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