Scrolling ............................................................................................................................. 23
Pinching/Zooming .............................................................................................................. 23
Rotating ............................................................................................................................. 24
5 Maintenance .................................................................................................................................................. 25
Inserting or removing the battery ........................................................................................................ 25
Replacing or upgrading the hard drive ............................................................................................... 27
Removing the hard drive .................................................................................................... 27
Installing a hard drive ......................................................................................................... 28
Adding or replacing memory modules ................................................................................................ 29
Updating programs and drivers .......................................................................................................... 33
Routine care ....................................................................................................................................... 33
Cleaning the display .......................................................................................................... 33
Cleaning the TouchPad and keyboard .............................................................................. 33
6 Backup and recovery .................................................................................................................................... 34
Restore ............................................................................................................................................... 35
Creating restore media ....................................................................................................................... 35
Performing a system restore .............................................................................................................. 36
Restoring using the dedicated recovery partition (select models only) .............................. 36
Restoring using the restore media ..................................................................................... 37
Changing the computer boot order .................................................................................... 38
Backing up and recovering your information ...................................................................................... 38
Using Windows Backup and Restore ................................................................................ 39
Using Windows system restore points ............................................................................... 40
When to create restore points ........................................................................... 40
Create a system restore point ........................................................................... 40
Restore to a previous date and time ................................................................. 40
7 Customer support ......................................................................................................................................... 41
Contacting customer support ............................................................................................................. 42
Labels ................................................................................................................................................. 43
8 Specifications ................................................................................................................................................ 44
Input power ......................................................................................................................................... 44
Operating environment ....................................................................................................................... 45
Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 46
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