Quick Start Manual

HP Pavilion home PC

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Creating Recovery CDs/DVDs

1 You can recover (bring back) the operating system and programs that were included on your hard

drive just as they were when you bought the computer.

Note:

A hard drive is a disk inside the computer that stores the operating system, programs, and data.

2 You recover the operating system and programs directly from your hard drive, where a copy was

placed for your convenience.

We call this part of your hard drive the “recovery partition.”

The recovery partition takes up some space on your hard drive.

3 You can copy the information of this recovery partition onto CDs or DVDs.

4 Then, if you would like to make extra space available on your hard drive, you can delete the recovery

partition using a special software tool.

5 Do not delete your hard drive partition unless you have made recovery CDs or DVDs.