Clearing and resetting the BIOS ........................................................................................................................ 127
9 Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ..................................................................................................... 128
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................. 128
10 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ........................................................................................................ 130
Backing up, restoring, and recovering in Windows 10 ...................................................................................... 130
Creating recovery media and backups ............................................................................................ 130
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) .................................................... 130
Using Windows tools ....................................................................................................................... 131
Restore and recovery ...................................................................................................................... 132
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ...................................................................... 132
What you need to know before you get started ........................................ 132
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................ 133
Using HP Recovery media to recover ......................................................... 133
Changing the computer boot order ............................................................ 134
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ..................... 135
Backing up, restoring, and recovering in Windows 7 ........................................................................................ 135
Creating recovery media and backups ............................................................................................ 135
Guidelines ..................................................................................................................... 136
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................. 136
Creating recovery media ............................................................................ 136
Backing up your information ........................................................................................ 136
Performing a system recovery ........................................................................................................ 137
Using the Windows recovery tools ............................................................................... 137
Using f11 recovery tools (select products only) .......................................................... 138
Using Windows 7 operating system media .................................................................. 139
Appendix A Battery replacement ................................................................................................................... 140
Appendix B Power Cord Set Requirements ...................................................................................................... 143
General Requirements ....................................................................................................................................... 143
Japanese Power Cord Requirements ................................................................................................................. 143
Country-Specic Requirements ........................................................................................................................ 144
Appendix C Statement of memory volatility ................................................................................................... 145
Nonvolatile memory usage ............................................................................................................................... 147
Questions and answers ..................................................................................................................................... 149
Using HP Sure Start (select models only) .......................................................................................................... 150
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