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Restore
In the event of hard drive failure, to restore your system to its factory
image you will need a set of recovery discs or a recovery flash drive that
you can create using HP Recovery Manager. HP recommends that you
use this software to create either a set of recovery discs or a recovery
flash drive immediately after software setup.
If for some other reason you need to restore your system, this can be
achieved using the HP Recovery partition (select models only), without
the need for recovery discs or a recovery flash drive. To check for the
presence of a recovery partition, click Start, right-click Computer, click
Manage, and then click Disk Management. If the recovery partition is
present, a Recovery drive is listed in the window.
CAUTION:
HP Recovery Manager (partition or discs/flash drive)
restores only software that was preinstalled at the factory. Software not
provided with this computer must be reinstalled manually.
NOTE:
Recovery discs have been included if your computer does not
have a recovery partition.
Creating restore media
HP recommends that you create either a set of recovery discs or a
recovery flash drive to be sure that you can restore your computer to its
original factory state if the hard drive fails, or if for any reason you cannot
restore using the recovery partition tools. Create these discs or the flash
drive after setting up the computer for the first time.
NOTE:
HP Recovery Manager allows the creation of only one set of
recovery discs or one recovery flash drive. Handle these discs or flash
drive carefully and keep them in a safe place.
NOTE:
If your computer does not include an integrated optical drive,
you can use an optional external optical drive (purchased separately) to
create recovery discs, or you can purchase recovery discs for your
computer from the HP Web site. If you use an external optical drive, it
must be connected directly to a USB port on the computer, not to a USB
port on an external device, such as a USB hub.
Guidelines:
52 Chapter 6 Backup and recovery