10 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ......................................................................................................... 92
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 92
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ........................................................................................... 92
Using HP Recovery Manager to create recovery media .................................................................... 93
Before you begin ............................................................................................................. 93
Creating the recovery media ........................................................................................... 93
Using the HP Cloud Recovery Download Tool to create recovery media .......................................... 94
Restoring and recovery ........................................................................................................................................ 94
Restoring, resetting, and refreshing using Windows tools .............................................................. 94
Restoring using HP Recovery Manager and the HP Recovery partition ........................................... 94
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 94
Recovering using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................ 95
Recovering using HP Recovery media ............................................................................................... 95
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................................... 96
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................................................ 96
Appendix A Statement of memory volatility ..................................................................................................... 97
Nonvolatile memory usage ................................................................................................................................. 99
Questions and answers ..................................................................................................................................... 101
Using HP Sure Start (select models only) .......................................................................................................... 102
Appendix B Power cord set requirements ....................................................................................................... 103
General requirements ........................................................................................................................................ 103
Japanese power cord requirements .................................................................................................................. 103
Country-specic requirements .......................................................................................................................... 104
Appendix C Specications ............................................................................................................................. 105
Index ........................................................................................................................................................... 106
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