Getting Started

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Hard Drive Recovery Utilities

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 Burn.

5Insert the first blank CD or DVD into your computer’s CD/DVD writable 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 71.

Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the recovery partition

You have the options of recovering your system using the Hard Drive Recovery partition to the factory-set default, or recovering just your C: drive and leaving other partitions (for example, a D: drive) intact, or changing the size of your C: drive and then recovering it.

To recover your hard disk drive using the utilities stored on your computer’s HDD:

1Make sure the computer is turned off.