12 Specifications .......................................................................................................................................... 108
13 Backup and recovery – Windows 10 ........................................................................................................... 109
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 109
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ...................................................................... 110
Using Windows Tools ........................................................................................................................................ 111
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................ 111
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 112
What you need to know before you get started .......................................................... 112
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) .............................................. 113
Using HP Recovery media to recover ........................................................................... 113
Changing the computer boot order .............................................................................. 114
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ....................................... 114
14 Backup and recovery – Windows 8 ............................................................................................................. 115
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 115
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 117
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................. 117
Using Windows 8 operating system media (purchased separately) ............................................. 118
Using Windows Refresh for quick and easy recovery .................................................................... 119
Remove everything and reinstall Windows .................................................................................... 119
Using HP Software Setup ................................................................................................................ 120
15 Backup and recovery – Windows 7 ............................................................................................................. 121
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 121
Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 122
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................................... 122
Creating recovery media .............................................................................................. 122
Backing up your information .......................................................................................................... 123
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 123
Using the Windows recovery tools ................................................................................................. 124
Using f11 recovery tools (select models only) ............................................................................... 125
Using Windows 7 operating system media .................................................................................... 125
16 Backup and Recovery – SUSE Linux ............................................................................................................ 127
Creating backups ............................................................................................................................................... 127
Creating restore media ...................................................................................................................................... 127
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 127
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 128
Remove everything and reinstall SLED ............................................................................................................. 129
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