10 HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ............................................................................................................ 112
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................. 113
11 Backup and recovery in Windows 7 ............................................................................................................ 114
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 114
Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 114
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................................... 114
Creating recovery media ............................................................................................... 115
Backing up your information .......................................................................................................... 115
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 116
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 116
Using f11 recovery tools (select models only) ............................................................................... 117
Using Windows 7 operating system media ..................................................................................... 117
12 Backup and recovery in Windows 8.1 ......................................................................................................... 119
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 119
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 119
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 119
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................. 120
Using Windows operating system media (purchased separately) ................................................. 121
Using Windows Refresh or Windows Reset .................................................................................... 121
Using HP Software Setup ................................................................................................................ 121
13 Backup and recovery in Windows 10 .......................................................................................................... 122
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 122
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ....................................................................... 122
Using Windows tools ......................................................................................................................................... 123
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 124
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 124
What you need to know before you get started ........................................................... 124
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) .............................................. 125
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................ 125
Changing the computer boot order .............................................................................. 126
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ....................................... 126
14 Specications .......................................................................................................................................... 127
Computer specications .................................................................................................................................... 127
Hard drive specications ................................................................................................................................... 128
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