Creating Recovery Discs (Highly Recommended - HP Compaq NX6315 Getting Started

Backup and recovery
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Before using HP Backup and Recovery Manager, try repairing
the system by running Microsoft Windows System Restore. for
more information, select Start > Help and Support, and then
search for "System Restore."
The HP Backup and Recovery Manager allows you to
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Create recovery discs (recommended). The recovery discs
are used to start up the computer and to recover the full
factory image (operating system and software) in case of
system failure or instability.
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Perform a recovery. You can perform a full system recovery
or to recover important files from a recovery partition on the
hard drive, from another drive, or from recovery discs that
you create.
Creating recovery discs
(highly recommended)
After setting up the computer for the first time, you can create a
set of recovery discs of the full factory image using HP Backup
and Recovery Manager. The recovery discs are used to start up
(boot) the computer and recover the operating system and
software programs to factory settings in case of system failure or
instability.
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CAUTION: After you create the recovery discs, you can increase the
amount of space on the hard drive by deleting the recovery partition.
However, doing this is not recommended. If you delete this partition,
you will lose any information that is on the partition.
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Only one set of recovery discs can be created per computer.
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If you don't have a CD or DVD burner, a copy of the
entire hard drive image can be stored on another hard drive
or on a network drive.
Getting Started