User's Manual

10 Backing up, restoring, and recovering
Your tablet includes tools provided by Windows to help you safeguard your information and retrieve it if you
ever need to. These tools will help you return your tablet to a proper working state or even back to the
original factory state, all with simple steps.
This chapter provides information about the following processes:
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Creating a Microsoft Recovery Drive
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Using Microsoft’s Refresh your PC or Remove everything and reinstall Windows options to address
issues with your tablet
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Backing up data using File History
NOTE: This chapter describes an overview of backing up, restoring and recovering options. For more details
about the tools provided, see Help and Support. On the Start screen, type help, and then select Help and
Support.
Creating a Microsoft Recovery Drive (select models only)
After you successfully set up the computer, create a Microsoft recovery drive. The MS Recovery Drive will
back up the recovery partition on the tablet and ensure access to the Refresh your PC and Remove everything
and reinstall Windows options even if the recovery partition on the tablet has been corrupted or removed.
The Microsoft recovery drive will provide the following options:
NOTE: A recovery drive can be created only on a USB flash drive (select models only).
1. On the Start screen, type create recovery drive, and then select Create a recovery drive.
IMPORTANT: Be sure that the check box labeled Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the
recovery drive is selected.
2. After you have created the recovery drive, a prompt is displayed asking if you want to remove the
recovery partition. If you select No and later reconsider, you must complete the entire process again
before the prompt will be displayed a second time.
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