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HP dc5700 - Microtower PC Administrator's Guide

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supplemental and recovery products, as appropriate. The HP Backup and Recovery Manager uses this
record to recover the system hard drive. Removing the Recovery Partition destroys this record.
If necessary, you may remove the Recovery Partition. However, before doing so, you should run the
Recovery Media Creator to create a disc backup of the software on the Recovery Partition, including all
ISO images.
The Recovery Partition is a primary NTFS partition and is not completely hidden from users and
administrators. However, the partition is protected so the user cannot view the contents using Windows
Explorer and easily access files. No sectors in the partition are marked as bad.
Recovery Media Creator
Creating a Recovery Disc Set is one of the most important things you can do for PC hard drive security.
1.
Launch HP Backup and Recovery Manager.
2. After the Welcome Screen, select Create factory software recovery CDs or DVDs to
recover the system.
3.
Follow the wizard.
This wizard makes it possible to create the recovery discs directly or to save the discs to the hard drive
as ISO images. You can save these ISO images to disc later using another application.
Operating system
WinPE is the media operating system used for a full PC Recovery (F11 key restore). HP does not support
accessing the underlying operating system using a command line prompt with tools such as diskpart,
format, etc.
The Recovery Partition holds the WinPE operating system, the HP Backup and Recovery files needed to
boot into the partition, and the Initial Recovery Point. When preinstalled at the factory, the partition also
contains the Microsoft operating system and Restore Plus! Additionally, desktop and workstation systems
contain supplemental ISOs.
Recovery media
Once a set of Recovery Media is created, you can no longer create another set. Or, if you remove the
Recovery Partition, you cannot create Recovery Points. Please note that removing the Recovery Partition
has much more significant effects to Desktop systems. Portables has a Rescue CD that you can use to
recover previously-created Entire Drive Backups or Recovery Points. Desktops has no such function;
therefore, once the Recovery Partition is removed, most functionality is gone.
Network connectivity is available when booting from the recovery media using WinPE-supported network
drivers. The network is available when booting from the Recovery Partition, but is not available when
booting from recovery media burned onto optical discs.
NOTE: You can browse the network to previously created backups by booting to the first disc of
the Recovery Disc Set.
Creating a Recovery Disc Set is one of the most important things that you can do for hard drive security.
Use the Recovery Media Creator to create a Recovery Disc Set.
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HP dc5700 - Microtower PC Specifications

General IconGeneral
ChipsetIntel Q965 Express
Optical DriveDVD-ROM, DVD+/-RW
Form FactorMicrotower
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo, Pentium D
MemoryUp to 4 GB DDR2
StorageUp to 250 GB HDD
GraphicsIntel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000
AudioIntegrated
NetworkIntegrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Expansion Slots1 PCI Express x16, 1 PCI Express x1
PortsUSB 2.0, VGA, serial, parallel, audio
Operating SystemWindows XP, Windows Vista

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