7Backing up, restoring, and recovering
Your tablet includes tools provided by Windows to help you safeguard your information and retrieve it if you ever need to. These tools will help you return your tablet to a proper working state or even back to the original factory state, all with simple steps.
This chapter provides information about the following processes:
●Creating a Microsoft recovery drive (select models only)
●Using Microsoft’s Refresh your PC or Remove everything and reinstall Windows options to address issues with your tablet
●Backing up data using File History
NOTE: This chapter describes an overview of backing up, restoring and recovering options. For more details about the tools provided, see Help and Support. On the Start screen, type help, and then select
Help and Support.
Creating a Microsoft recovery drive (select models only)
After you successfully set up the tablet, create a Microsoft recovery drive. The MS recovery drive backs up the recovery partition on the tablet and ensure access to the Refresh your PC and Remove everything and reinstall Windows options even if the recovery partition on the tablet has been corrupted or removed.
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