HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC HP Pavilion TouchSmart 15 Notebook PC - Maintenance and Service Guide

Exiting Setup Utility ............................................................................................... 102
Updating the BIOS ............................................................................................................... 103
Determining the BIOS version ................................................................................. 103
Downloading a BIOS update .................................................................................. 103
Using Advanced System Diagnostics ...................................................................................... 104
9 Specifications ................................................................................................................ 105
Computer specifications ........................................................................................................ 105
15.0-inch display specifications ............................................................................................. 105
Hard drive specifications ...................................................................................................... 106
10 Windows – Backing up, restoring, and recovering ...................................................... 108
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................... 108
Creating HP Recovery media .................................................................................. 108
Restore and recovery ............................................................................................................ 110
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager .................................................................. 110
What you need to know .......................................................................... 111
Using the HP Recovery partition (select models only) ................................... 111
Using HP Recovery media to recover ........................................................ 112
Changing the computer boot order ........................................................... 112
Removing the HP Recovery partition ........................................................................ 113
11 Ubuntu Linux Backing up, restoring, and recovering ................................................... 114
Performing a system recovery ................................................................................................ 114
Creating the restore DVDs ...................................................................................... 114
Creating a restore image on a USB device ............................................................... 114
Performing recovery using the restore DVD ............................................................... 115
Backing up your information .................................................................................................. 115
12 Power cord set requirements ...................................................................................... 117
Requirements for all countries ................................................................................................ 117
Requirements for specific countries and regions ....................................................................... 117
13 Recycling .................................................................................................................... 119
Index ............................................................................................................................... 120
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