60 Getting Started
Hard Drive Recovery Utilities
2Select CD or DVD (to create Recovery media on CDs or DVDs).
(Sample Image) Recovery Disc Creator screen
3Select the items you want to copy by clicking the check box
next to the item’s Name—recovery files, applications (original
bundled drivers and applications), or both the recovery files
and applications.
4Click Create.
5Insert the first blank CD or DVD into your writable optical
drive when prompted.
6Follow the on-screen prompts for completing the copy process.
For more information on using the Recovery media you have
created with the preceding steps see “Hard Disk Drive Recovery
using the Recovery media” on page 65.
Hard Disk Drive Recovery options
The following are the available hard disk drive recovery options:
❖Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the recovery partition
❖Recovering the original factory image (recommended recovery
method)
❖Erasing the hard disk
❖Recovering the C: partition of the HDD without changing the
current partition size