Windows 8.1 Backing Up, Restoring, And Recovering; Creating Recovery Media And Backups; Creating Hp Recovery Media - HP ENVY m7 Maintenance And Service Manual

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recovering
Your computer includes tools provided by HP and Windows to help you safeguard your information
and retrieve it if you ever need to. These tools will help you return your computer to a proper working state
or even back to the original factory state, all with simple steps.
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
NOTE: This chapter describes an overview of backing up, restoring and recovering options. For more details
about the tools provided, see Help and Support. From the Start screen, type help, and then select Help and
Support.
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.
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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 the state 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 Windows 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 Recovery media can
also be used to customize the system or restore the factory image if you replace the hard drive.
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