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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Important: The recovery CD set you create is a complete image of the original HP Pavilion home PC hard disk drive contents and is matched to your model number. When using the recovery CDs to recover the hard drive by using the full system recovery option, any files or software that you created, saved, or installed on the computer will be overwritten. Therefore, please remember to back up your files prior to using your recovery CDs.
System recovery using recovery CDs has two options:
"Standard Recovery: This is a
"Full System Recovery: This recovery erases and reformats the hard disk drive, creates a new hard disk partition, erases all added hard disk data, and then reinstalls 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, as well as instructions for creating your recovery CDs are in this guide: refer to “Using Application Recovery and System Recovery.” For information on viewing the space used by the recovery partition on the hard drive, as well as steps for deleting undesired software titles, refer to “Freeing Up Space on Your Hard Disk Drive.”
In the event of a warranty hard drive failure, standard warranty terms apply: PC repair or a new imaged hard drive that includes the Windows XP operating system and the recovery partition, as well as all
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