Manual

Updating the BIOS ........................................................................................................................... 143
Determining the BIOS version ...................................................................................... 143
Downloading a BIOS update ......................................................................................... 143
Changing the boot order using the f9 prompt ................................................................................ 144
TPM BIOS settings (select products only) ......................................................................................................... 144
Using HP Sure Start (select products only) ....................................................................................................... 145
10 Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ................................................................................................... 146
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................. 146
11 Backup and recovery in Windows 7 ............................................................................................................ 148
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 148
Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 148
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ............................................................... 148
Creating recovery media ............................................................................................... 149
Backing up your information .......................................................................................................... 149
Performing a system recovery .......................................................................................................................... 150
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................. 150
Using f11 recovery tools (select models only) ............................................................................... 151
Using Windows 7 operating system media ..................................................................................... 151
12 Backing up, restoring, and recovering in Windows 10 .................................................................................. 153
Creating recovery media and backups .............................................................................................................. 153
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ....................................................................... 153
Using Windows tools ......................................................................................................................................... 154
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 155
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 155
What you need to know before you get started ........................................................... 155
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) .............................................. 156
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................ 156
Changing the computer boot order .............................................................................. 157
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ....................................... 157
13 Specications .......................................................................................................................................... 158
Computer specications .................................................................................................................................... 158
14 Statement of memory volatility ................................................................................................................ 159
Nonvolatile memory usage ............................................................................................................................... 163
Questions and answers ..................................................................................................................................... 165
Using HP Sure Start (select models only) .......................................................................................................... 166
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