HP Compaq nx9420 and nx9440 Notebook PC - Maintenance and Service Guide

B–6 Maintenance and Service Guide

Software Backup and Recovery

HP Backup and Recovery Manager allows you to

■ Create recovery discs (highly recommended). The

recovery discs are used to start up your computer and to

recover the full factory image (operating system and

software) in case of system failure or instability.

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If you do not have a CD or DVD burner, a copy of the entire

hard drive image can be stored on another hard drive or on a

network drive.

■ Perform a recovery. You can perform a full system recovery

or recover important files from the recovery partition on the

hard drive, from another drive, or from recovery discs that

you create.

Creating Recovery Discs

(Highly Recommended)

After setting up the computer for the first time, you can create a

set of recovery discs of the full factory image, using Recovery

Media Creator in the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. The

recovery discs are used to start up (boot) the computer and

recover the operating system and software to factory settings in

case of system failure or instability.

CAUTION: After you create the recovery discs, you can increase the

amount of available space on the hard drive by deleting the recovery

partition. However, doing this is not recommended. If you delete this

partition, you will lose any information that is on the partition.

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Only one set of recovery discs can be created for this computer.