
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................. 86
Performing a system recovery ............................................................................................................................ 87
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................... 87
Using f11 recovery tools (select models only) ................................................................................. 88
Using Windows 7 operating system media ....................................................................................... 88
12 Backup and recovery in Windows 8.1 ........................................................................................................... 90
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................................... 90
Performing a system recovery ............................................................................................................................ 90
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................... 90
Using f11 recovery tools ................................................................................................................... 91
Using Windows operating system media (purchased separately) ................................................... 92
Using Windows Refresh or Windows Reset ...................................................................................... 92
Using HP Software Setup .................................................................................................................. 92
13 Backup and recovery in Windows 10 ............................................................................................................ 93
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 93
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ......................................................................... 93
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 94
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................... 95
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 95
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................. 95
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................. 96
Using HP Recovery media to recover .............................................................................. 96
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................ 97
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ......................................... 97
14 Backing up, restoring, and recovering in Ubuntu Linux .................................................................................. 98
Creating a restore image ..................................................................................................................................... 98
Creating restore image on DVDs ....................................................................................................... 98
Creating a restore image on a USB device ........................................................................................ 98
Restoring the original factory state .................................................................................................. 99
Backing up your data files ................................................................................................................................. 100
Restoring your data files ................................................................................................................................... 100
15 Specifications .......................................................................................................................................... 101
Computer specifications .................................................................................................................................... 101
35.6-cm (14.0-in) HD+ display specifications ................................................................................................... 102
35.6-cm (14.0-in) FHD display specifications ................................................................................................... 103
M.2 solid-state drive specifications .................................................................................................................. 104
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