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Getting Started
Recovering the Internal Storage Drive
storage drive from your recovery media. It is strongly
recommended that you create recovery media before using
your system for the first time. See
and
“Restoring from recovery media” on
.
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During the recovery process your device must be
connected to an external power source via the AC
adaptor.
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When you restore your system, only the operating
system files and drivers originally shipped with the
device are restored. Any files that you created are not
restored during this process. Be sure to separately
save the files you have created to external media
using Windows
®
or another backup program. For
more information, see
.
Creating recovery media
It is strongly recommended that you create recovery media.
If the recovery files on your internal storage drive become
corrupted or are deleted, you can restore your system from
your recovery media. Also, if your original internal storage
drive fails, you can restore your system to a new internal
storage drive from your recovery media.
During the recovery process your device must be
connected to an external power source via the AC
adaptor.
When you create recovery media, only the operating
system files and drivers originally shipped with the device
are backed up to the external media and can be restored
from this media. Any files that you created are not
backed up on the recovery media. You will need to
separately back up the files you created; for more
information, see
“Backing up your work” on page 63
.
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