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You can use HP Recovery media to recover the original system. This method can be used if your system
does not have an HP Recovery partition or if the hard drive is not working properly.

If possible, back up all personal files.

Insert the first HP Recovery disc you created into the optical drive on your computer or into an
optional external optical drive, and then restart the computer.

– or –

Insert the HP Recovery USB flash drive you created into a USB port on your computer, and then
restart the computer.

If the computer does not automatically restart in HP Recovery Manager, change the

computer boot order. See the “Changing the computer boot order” section.

Follow the on-screen instructions.

If computer does not restart in HP Recovery Manager, you can change the computer boot order, which
is the order of devices listed in BIOS where the computer looks for startup information. You can change
the selection for an optical drive or a USB flash drive.

To change the boot order:

Insert the HP Recovery media you created.

Restart the computer.

Press and hold 

esc

 while the computer is restarting, and then press 

f9

 for boot options.

Select the optical drive or USB flash drive you want to boot from.

Follow the on-screen instructions.

HP Recovery Manager software allows you to remove the HP Recovery partition to free up
hard drive space.

Removing the HP Recovery partition means you can no longer use Windows Refresh,

the Windows Remove everything and reinstall Windows option, or the HP Recovery Manager option
for minimized image recovery. Create HP Recovery media before removing the Recovery partition to
ensure you have recovery options; see the “Creating HP Recovery media “ section.

Follow these steps to remove the HP Recovery partition:

From the Start screen, type 

recovery, and then select HP Recovery Manager.

Select Remove Recovery Partition, and follow the on-screen instructions to continue.

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Chapter 7   Backing up, restoring, and recovering