HP Pavilion TouchSmart 15

Updating the BIOS ............................................................................................................... 106
Determining the BIOS version ................................................................................. 106
Downloading a BIOS update .................................................................................. 106
Using Advanced System Diagnostics ...................................................................................... 107
9 Specifications ................................................................................................................ 108
Computer specifications ........................................................................................................ 108
15.0-inch display specifications ............................................................................................. 108
Hard drive specifications ...................................................................................................... 109
10 Windows 8 – Backing up, restoring, and recovering ................................................... 111
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................... 111
Creating HP Recovery media .................................................................................. 112
Restore and recovery ............................................................................................................ 113
Using Windows Refresh for quick and easy recovery ................................................. 114
Remove everything and reinstall Windows ............................................................... 114
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager .................................................................. 115
What you need to know .......................................................................... 115
Using the HP Recovery partition to recover a minimized image .................... 115
Using HP Recovery media to recover ........................................................ 116
Changing the computer boot order ........................................................... 116
Removing the HP Recovery partition ........................................................................ 116
11 Ubuntu Linux Backing up, restoring, and recovering ................................................... 118
Performing a system recovery ................................................................................................ 118
Creating the restore DVDs ...................................................................................... 118
Creating a restore image on a USB device ............................................................... 118
Performing recovery using the restore DVD ............................................................... 119
Backing up your information .................................................................................................. 119
12 Power cord set requirements ...................................................................................... 121
Requirements for all countries ................................................................................................ 121
Requirements for specific countries and regions ....................................................................... 121
13 Recycling .................................................................................................................... 123
Index ............................................................................................................................... 124
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