Owner's Manual

CHAPTER 7: Maintaining Your Notebook
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Creating recovery discs
If your computer experiences problems that are not
recoverable by other methods, you may need to reinstall the
Windows operating system and factory-loaded software and
drivers. To reinstall using discs, you must create the set of
recovery discs beforehand.
To create recovery discs:
1 Click Start, All Programs, Gateway, then click Gateway
Recovery Management. Gateway Recovery
Management opens.
2 To create recovery discs for the hard drive’s entire
original contents, including Windows XP and all
factory-loaded software and drivers, click Create
factory default disc.
- OR -
To create recovery discs for only the factory-loaded
software and drivers, click Create driver and
application backup disc.
Caution
External optical disc drive required. Please see your retailer for more
details.
Important
We recommend that you create each type of recovery disc as soon
as possible.