Hard drive specifications ....................................................................................................................

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8 Windows 8 – Backing up, restoring, and recovering ................................................................................

86

Creating recovery media and backups ...............................................................................................

86

Creating HP Recovery media ............................................................................................

87

Restore and recovery .........................................................................................................................

88

Using Windows Refresh for quick and easy recovery .......................................................

89

Remove everything and reinstall Windows ........................................................................

89

Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ..........................................................................

90

What you need to know .....................................................................................

90

Using the HP Recovery partition to recover a minimized image .......................

90

Using HP Recovery media to recover ...............................................................

91

Changing the computer boot order ...................................................................

91

Removing the HP Recovery partition .................................................................................

91

9 Ubuntu Linux – Backing up, restoring, and recovering ............................................................................

92

Performing a system recovery ............................................................................................................

92

Creating the restore DVDs .................................................................................................

92

Creating a restore image on a USB device .......................................................................

92

Performing recovery using the restore media ....................................................................

93

Backing up your information ...............................................................................................................

93

10 Power cord set requirements ....................................................................................................................

95

Requirements for all countries ............................................................................................................

95

Requirements for specific countries and regions ...............................................................................

96

11 Recycling .....................................................................................................................................................

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Index ...................................................................................................................................................................

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