User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Starting right
- Getting to know your computer
- Connecting to a network
- Enjoying entertainment features
- Navigating using touch gestures, pointing devices and the keyboard
- Managing power
- Initiating Sleep and Hibernation
- Using the power meter and power settings
- Selecting a power plan
- Running on battery power
- Using the AC adapter
- Running on external AC power
- HP CoolSense (select models only)
- Refreshing your software content with Intel Smart Connect Technology (select models only)
- Shutting down (turning off) the computer
- Managing and sharing information
- Maintaining your computer
- Securing your computer and information
- Using Setup Utility (BIOS) and System Diagnostics
- Backing up, restoring, and recovering
- Specifications
- Electrostatic Discharge
- Index
11 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ..................................................................................................... 73
Creating recovery media and backups ............................................................................................... 74
Creating HP Recovery media ............................................................................................ 74
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................... 76
Using Windows Refresh for quick and easy recovery ....................................................... 77
Remove everything and reinstall Windows ........................................................................ 77
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager .......................................................................... 78
What you need to know ..................................................................................... 78
Using the HP Recovery partition to recover a minimized image (select
models only) ...................................................................................................... 78
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................... 79
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................... 79
Removing the HP Recovery partition ................................................................................. 80
12 Specifications .............................................................................................................................................. 81
Input power ......................................................................................................................................... 81
Operating environment ....................................................................................................................... 82
13 Electrostatic Discharge .............................................................................................................................. 83
Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 84
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