Recovery System and Hard Drive Space
HP Pavilion home PCs with Windows XP feature a recovery partition included on the hard drive, along with a recovery CD creator program. This program allows you to make your own recovery CDs. The recovery process, either application or operating system, offers the following advantages:
"Selective: Ensures that the recovery data is matched to the particular PC model. You can easily recover only the application or system software you need.
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System recovery using recovery CDs has two options:
"Standard Recovery: This is a
"Full System Recovery: This recovery erases hard disk drive data, reformats the drive, creates a new disk partition, and then installs the operating system. You must reinstall any software that was not installed on the computer at the factory.
Instructions for using system recovery and application recovery, and creating your recovery CDs are in this guide: refer to “Using Application Recovery and System Recovery.” To view the space used by the recovery partition on the hard drive, or to delete undesired software titles, refer to “Freeing Up Space on Your Hard Disk Drive.”
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