HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11-e040ca User Guide - Page 82

Removing the HP Recovery partition, HP Recovery Manager

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Removing the HP Recovery partition HP Recovery Manager software allows you to remove the HP Recovery partition to free up hard drive space. IMPORTANT: After you remove the HP Recovery partition, you can no longer use the Windows Refresh option, the Windows option to remove everything and reinstall Windows, or the HP Recovery Manager option. So before you remove the Recovery partition, create HP Recovery media; see Creating HP Recovery media on page 67. Follow these steps to remove the HP Recovery partition: 1. From the Start screen, type recovery, and then select HP Recovery Manager. 2. Select Remove Recovery Partition, and then follow the on-screen instructions. 72 Chapter 11 Backing up, restoring, and recovering

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Removing the HP Recovery partition
HP Recovery Manager software allows you to remove the HP Recovery partition to free up hard drive
space.
IMPORTANT:
After you remove the HP Recovery partition, you can no longer use the Windows
Refresh option, the Windows option to remove everything and reinstall Windows, or the HP Recovery
Manager option. So before you remove the Recovery partition, create HP Recovery media; see
Creating HP Recovery media
on page
67
.
Follow these steps to remove the HP Recovery partition:
1.
From the Start screen, type
recovery
, and then select
HP Recovery Manager
.
2.
Select
Remove Recovery Partition
, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
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Chapter 11
Backing up, restoring, and recovering