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Getting Started
Recovering the Internal Storage Drive
Restoring from recovery media
The recovery process deletes information stored on the internal
storage drive. Be sure to save your work to external media before
executing the recovery (see “Backing up your work” on page 100).
During the internal storage drive recovery process it is strongly
recommended that your computer be connected to an external power
source via the AC adaptor.
If you have created recovery media for your system, you can restore
your system from such media, if necessary. For example, if your
original internal storage drive fails, you can restore your system to a
new internal storage drive from your recovery media. For
instructions on creating recovery media, see “Creating recovery
media” on page 62.
With recovery media, you can:
❖Recover to out-of-box state (recommended recovery method)
❖Recovery of factory default software with user’s data
❖Recover without changing the internal storage drive partitions
❖Recover to a custom size partition
For more information on these options, see “Recovering the
Internal Storage Drive” on page 51.
When you restore your system, only the operating system files,
applications, and drivers originally shipped with the computer are
restored. Any files that you created are not restored during this
process. Be sure to separately save the files you have created to
external media using Windows® Backup or another backup program.
For more information, see “Backing up your work” on page 100.
To recover your internal storage drive from recovery media:
1Make sure your computer is turned off.
2Do one of the following:
❖If your recovery files are on DVDs, insert the first recovery
DVD into your optional external writable optical disc
drive. Consult the documentation that came with your
optical disc drive to learn how to load the DVD while the
computer is powered off.
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