10 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ......................................................................................................... 91
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 91
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ........................................................................................... 91
Using HP Recovery Manager to create recovery media .................................................................... 92
Before you begin ............................................................................................................. 92
Creating the recovery media ........................................................................................... 92
Using the HP Cloud Recovery Download Tool to create recovery media .......................................... 93
Restoring and recovery ........................................................................................................................................ 93
Restoring, resetting, and refreshing using Windows tools .............................................................. 93
Restoring using HP Recovery Manager and the HP Recovery partition ........................................... 93
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 93
Recovering using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................ 94
Recovering using HP Recovery media ............................................................................................... 94
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................................... 95
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................................................ 95
Appendix A Power cord set requirements ......................................................................................................... 96
General Requirements ......................................................................................................................................... 96
Japanese Power Cord Requirements ................................................................................................................... 96
Country-Specic Requirements .......................................................................................................................... 97
Appendix B Statement of memory volatility ..................................................................................................... 98
Nonvolatile memory usage ............................................................................................................................... 100
Questions and answers ..................................................................................................................................... 102
Using HP Sure Start (select models only) .......................................................................................................... 103
Appendix C Specications ............................................................................................................................. 104
Index ........................................................................................................................................................... 105
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