7 Specifications .................................................................................................................. 85
Computer specifications .......................................................................................................... 85
35.6 cm (14.0 in), display specifications .................................................................................. 86
Hard drive specifications ........................................................................................................ 86
8 Windows 8 Backing up, restoring, and recovering .......................................................... 88
Creating recovery media and backups ..................................................................................... 88
Creating HP Recovery media .................................................................................... 89
Restore and recovery .............................................................................................................. 90
Using Windows Refresh for quick and easy recovery ................................................... 91
Remove everything and reinstall Windows ................................................................. 91
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager .................................................................... 92
What you need to know ............................................................................ 92
Using the HP Recovery partition to recover a minimized image ...................... 92
Using HP Recovery media to recover .......................................................... 93
Changing the computer boot order ............................................................. 93
Removing the HP Recovery partition .......................................................................... 93
9 Ubuntu Linux Backing up, restoring, and recovering ....................................................... 95
Performing a system recovery .................................................................................................. 95
Creating the restore DVDs ........................................................................................ 95
Creating a restore image on a USB device ................................................................. 95
Performing recovery using the restore DVD ................................................................. 96
Backing up your information .................................................................................................... 96
10 Power cord set requirements ........................................................................................ 98
Requirements for all countries .................................................................................................. 98
Requirements for specific countries and regions ......................................................................... 99
11 Recycling .................................................................................................................... 101
Index ............................................................................................................................... 102
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