HP EliteBook 745 G2 HP Notebook PC and EliteBook 755 G2 Notebook PC - Maintenance and Service Guide

12 Backup and recovery in Windows 10 .......................................................................................................... 112
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 112
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ....................................................................... 112
Using Windows tools ......................................................................................................................................... 113
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 113
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 114
What you need to know before you get started ........................................................... 114
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) .............................................. 115
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................ 115
Changing the computer boot order .............................................................................. 115
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ....................................... 116
13 Backup and recovery in Windows 8.1 ......................................................................................................... 117
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 117
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 117
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 117
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................. 118
Using Windows 8.1 operating system media (purchased separately) ........................................... 119
Using Windows Refresh or Windows Reset .................................................................................... 120
Using HP Software Setup ................................................................................................................ 120
14 Backup and recovery in Windows 7 ............................................................................................................ 121
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 121
Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 121
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................................... 121
Creating recovery media ............................................................................................... 122
Backing up your information .......................................................................................................... 122
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 123
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 123
Using f11 recovery tools (select models only) ............................................................................... 124
Using Windows 7 operating system media ..................................................................................... 124
15 Backing up, restoring, and recovering in Ubuntu ......................................................................................... 126
Creating a restore image ................................................................................................................................... 126
Creating restore image on DVDs ..................................................................................................... 126
Creating a restore image on a USB device ...................................................................................... 126
Restoring the original factory state ................................................................................................ 127
Backing up your data les ................................................................................................................................. 128
Restoring your data les ................................................................................................................................... 128
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