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Restore and recovery, Help and Support, HP Recovery Manager, Drivers and, Applications Reinstall

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Restore and recovery There are several options for recovering your system. Choose the method that best matches your situation and level of expertise: ● Windows offers several options for restoring from backup, refreshing the computer, and resetting the computer to its original state. For more information and steps, see Help and Support. From the Start screen, type help, and then select Help and Support. ● If you need to correct a problem with a preinstalled application or driver, use the Drivers and Applications Reinstall option of HP Recovery Manager to reinstall the individual application or driver. From the Start screen, type recovery, select HP Recovery Manager, select Drivers and Applications Reinstall, and then follow the on-screen instructions. ● If you want to reset your computer using a minimized image, you can choose the HP Minimized Image Recovery option from the HP Recovery partition (select models only) or HP Recovery media. Minimized Image Recovery installs only drivers and hardware-enabling applications. Other applications included in the image continue to be available for installation through the Drivers and Applications Reinstall option in HP Recovery Manager. For more information, see Recovering using HP Recovery Manager on page 65. ● If you want to recover the computer's original factory partitioning and content, you can choose the System Recovery option from the HP Recovery partition (select models only) or use the HP Recovery media that you have created. For more information, see Recovering using HP Recovery Manager on page 65. If you have not already created recovery media, see Creating HP Recovery media on page 63. ● If you have replaced the hard drive, you can use the Factory Reset option of HP Recovery media to restore the factory image to the replacement drive. For more information, see Recovering using HP Recovery Manager on page 65. ● If you wish to remove the recovery partition to reclaim hard drive space, HP Recovery Manager offers the Remove Recovery Partition option. For more information, see Removing the HP Recovery partition (select models only) on page 67. 64 Chapter 8 Backing up, restoring, and recovering

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Restore and recovery
There are several options for recovering your system. Choose the method that best matches your
situation and level of expertise:
●
Windows offers several options for restoring from backup, refreshing the computer, and resetting
the computer to its original state. For more information and steps, see Help and Support. From the
Start screen, type
help
, and then select
Help and Support
.
●
If you need to correct a problem with a preinstalled application or driver, use the Drivers and
Applications Reinstall option of HP Recovery Manager to reinstall the individual application
or driver.
From the Start screen, type
recovery
, select
HP Recovery Manager
, select
Drivers and
Applications Reinstall
, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
●
If you want to reset your computer using a minimized image, you can choose the HP Minimized
Image Recovery option from the HP Recovery partition (select models only) or HP Recovery media.
Minimized Image Recovery installs only drivers and hardware-enabling applications. Other
applications included in the image continue to be available for installation through the Drivers and
Applications Reinstall option in HP Recovery Manager.
For more information, see
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager
on page
65
.
●
If you want to recover the computer's original factory partitioning and content, you can choose the
System Recovery option from the HP Recovery partition (select models only) or use the HP Recovery
media that you have created. For more information, see
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager
on page
65
. If you have not already created recovery media, see
Creating HP Recovery media
on page
63
.
●
If you have replaced the hard drive, you can use the Factory Reset option of HP Recovery media to
restore the factory image to the replacement drive. For more information, see
Recovering using HP
Recovery Manager
on page
65
.
●
If you wish to remove the recovery partition to reclaim hard drive space, HP Recovery Manager
offers the Remove Recovery Partition option.
For more information, see
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select models only)
on page
67
.
64
Chapter 8
Backing up, restoring, and recovering