HP Compaq Presario CQ60, Maintenance And Service Manual

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Backup and recovery 8–4
Recovering from the recovery discs
To restore the system from the recovery discs:
1. Back up all personal files.
2. Insert the first recovery disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Recovering from the dedicated recovery partition (select models only)
✎
If your computer includes a solid-state drive (SSD), you may not have a recovery partition. You will not be able
to recover using this procedure. Recovery discs have been included for computers that do not have a partition.
Use these discs to recover your operating system and software.
On some models, you can perform a recovery from the partition on the hard drive from either the Start
button or
f11
.
To restore the system from the partition, follow these steps:
1. Access Recovery Manager in either of the following ways:
❏
Select Start > All Programs > Recovery Manager > Recovery Manager .
–or–
❏
Restart the computer and press
f11
while the “Press <F11> for recovery” message is displayed on the
screen. Then select Recovery Manager .
Recovery Manager opens.
2. Click Advanced Options .
3. Click System recovery , and then click Next .
4. Follow the on-screen instructions.