Downloading And Extracting The Disaster Recovery Utility; Restoring Your Hard Drive Image; Using The Instant Restore Utility - HP Mini 110-3030 Getting Started

Before performing a disaster recovery, you must download the Disaster Recovery utility and extract it
to a USB flash drive.

Downloading and extracting the Disaster Recovery utility

To download and extract Disaster Recovery, follow these steps:
1. Connect a USB flash drive to a USB port on your computer.
2. Open your Web browser, go to http://www.hp.com, and select your country or region.
3. Type Roxio BackOnTrack 3 Disaster Recovery Boot Utility in the Search box,
press enter, and then select Roxio BackOnTrack 3 Disaster Recovery Boot Utility from the
Search results.
4. Select Download only to save the file to your computer.
5. When prompted, click Save, and then select the computer hard drive from the list of storage
locations.
6. After the file is downloaded, navigate to the location where you saved the SoftPaq, and then
double-click the SoftPaq file to format the USB flash drive and extract the Disaster Recovery
files.
7. If prompted to do so, restart your computer after the installation is complete.

Restoring your hard drive image

To restore your hard drive image using Disaster Recovery, follow these steps:
1. Connect the external hard drive containing the Disaster Recovery Set to your computer.
2. Connect the bootable USB flash drive containing the extracted Disaster Recovery utility to a
USB port on your computer.
3. Change the boot device order by turning on or restarting the computer, and then pressing f9.
4. Use the arrow keys to select the USB flash drive, and then press enter.
5. At the Roxio BackOnTrack Disaster Recovery screen, select Disaster Recovery, and then click
Next.
6. Browse to the external hard drive containing the Disaster Recovery Set, and then click Next.
7. Click Next to proceed with the recovery.
NOTE:
8. After a message on the screen reports a successful recovery, click Finish.

Using the Instant Restore utility

You can restore your computer from Windows when the operating system is functioning. If the
operating system is not functioning, you can also access the utility by restarting your computer.
NOTE: For more information about the Instant Restore utility, refer to the BackOnTrack software
Help.
This process may take several minutes.
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