Maintenance and Service Guide

Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 98
11 HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) .............................................................................................................. 99
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................... 99
12 Backup and recovery in Windows 8.1 ......................................................................................................... 101
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 101
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 101
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 101
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................. 102
Using Windows operating system media (purchased separately) ................................................. 103
Using Windows Refresh or Windows Reset .................................................................................... 103
Using HP Software Setup ................................................................................................................ 103
13 Backup and recovery in Windows 7 ............................................................................................................ 104
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 104
Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 104
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................................... 104
Creating recovery media ............................................................................................... 105
Backing up your information .......................................................................................................... 105
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 106
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 106
Using f11 recovery tools (select models only) ............................................................................... 107
Using Windows 7 operating system media ..................................................................................... 107
14 Backup and recovery in Windows 10 .......................................................................................................... 109
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 109
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ....................................................................... 109
Using Windows tools ......................................................................................................................................... 110
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 111
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 111
What you need to know before you get started ........................................................... 111
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) .............................................. 112
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................ 112
Changing the computer boot order .............................................................................. 113
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ....................................... 114
15 Backup and Recovery in Ubuntu Linux ........................................................................................................ 115
Creating backups ............................................................................................................................................... 115
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................. 115
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