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Recovering your system, Using the recovery partition - driver

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English Recovering your system Using the recovery partition The recovery partition includes an image of the operating system, drivers, and utilities installed on your system at the factory.The recovery partition provides a comprehensive recovery solution that quickly restores your system's software to its original working state, provided that your hard disk drive is in good working order. Before using the recovery partition, copy your data files (such as Outlook PST files) to a USB device or to a network drive and take down notes of any customized configuration settings (such as network settings). Recovering the OS to the Factory Default Partition (F9 Recovery) 1. Press [F9] during bootup. 2. Select Windows setup [EMS Enabled] when this item appears and press [Enter]. 3. Select the language and click Next. 4. Select Recover the OS to the Default Partition and click Next. 5. The factory default partition will be displayed. Click Next. 6. Data on the default partition will be cleared. Click Recover to start the system recovery. You will lose all your data during the system recovery. Make sure that you make a backup of it before recovering the system. 7. After system recovery is complete, click Reboot to restart the system. Backing up the Factory Default Environment Data to a USB Drive (F9 Backup) 1. Repeat the step 1-3 in the previous section. 2. Select Backup the Factory Environment to a USB Drive and click Next. 3. Connect a USB storage device to your PC to start the Factory Default Environment backup. The required size of the connected USB storage device should be larger than 20GB. The actual size may vary with your PC model. 4. Select a desired USB storage device if more than one USB storage device is connected to your All-in-one PC and click Next. If there is already a partition with proper size in the selected USB storage device (for example, a partition that has been used as the backup partition), the system will show this partition automatically and reuse it for backup. 34 ASUS All-in-one PC ET1612I Series

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ASUS All-in-one PC ET1612I Series
Recovering your system
Using the recovery partition
The recovery partition includes an image of the operating system, drivers, and utilities installed
on your system at the factory. The recovery partition provides a comprehensive recovery
solution that quickly restores your system’s software to its original working state, provided that
your hard disk drive is in good working order. Before using the recovery partition, copy your
data files (such as Outlook PST files) to a USB device or to a network drive and take down notes
of any customized configuration settings (such as network settings).
Recovering the OS to the Factory Default Partition (F9 Recovery)
1.
Press
[F9]
during bootup.
2.
Select
Windows setup [EMS Enabled]
when this item appears and press [Enter].
3.
Select the language and click
Next
.
4.
Select
Recover the OS to the Default Partition
and click
Next
.
5.
The factory default partition will be displayed. Click
Next.
6.
Data on the default partition will be cleared. Click
Recover
to start the system recovery.
You will lose all your data during the system recovery. Make sure that you make a backup of it
before recovering the system.
7.
After system recovery is complete, click
Reboot
to restart the system.
Backing up the Factory Default Environment Data to a USB Drive (F9
Backup)
1.
Repeat the step 1–3 in the previous section.
2.
Select
Backup the Factory Environment to a USB Drive
and click
Next
.
3.
Connect a USB storage device to your PC to start the Factory Default Environment backup.
The required size of the connected USB storage device should be larger than 20GB. The actual
size may vary with your PC model.
4.
Select a desired USB storage device if more than one USB storage device is connected to
your All-in-one PC and click
Next
.
If there is already a partition with proper size in the selected USB storage device (for example,
a partition that has been used as the backup partition), the system will show this partition
automatically and reuse it for backup.