Using Windows 7 operating system media ....................................................................................... 93
12 Backup and recovery in Windows 8 .............................................................................................................. 95
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................... 95
Performing a system recovery ............................................................................................................................ 95
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................... 95
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................... 96
Using Windows operating system media (purchased separately) ................................................... 97
Using Windows Refresh or Windows Reset ...................................................................................... 97
Using HP Software Setup .................................................................................................................. 97
13 Backup and recovery in Windows 10 ............................................................................................................ 98
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 98
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ......................................................................... 98
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 99
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 100
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 100
What you need to know before you get started ........................................................... 100
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) .............................................. 101
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................ 101
Changing the computer boot order .............................................................................. 102
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ....................................... 103
14 Specications .......................................................................................................................................... 104
Computer specications .................................................................................................................................... 104
35.6-cm (14.0-in) display specications .......................................................................................................... 105
Hard drive specications ................................................................................................................................... 106
Solid-state drive specications ......................................................................................................................... 107
mSATA drive specications ................................................................................................................................ 108
15 Statement of Volatility ............................................................................................................................. 109
Non-volatile memory usage .............................................................................................................................. 110
Questions and answers ..................................................................................................................................... 112
16 Power cord set requirements .................................................................................................................... 113
Requirements for all countries .......................................................................................................................... 113
Requirements for specic countries and regions ............................................................................................. 113
17 Recycling ................................................................................................................................................ 115
Battery ............................................................................................................................................................... 115
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