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Maintenance and Service Guide
Backup and recovery
Recovering from the dedicated recovery partition (select models only)
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Computers with an SSD may not have a recovery partition. If the computer does 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, accessed by pressing either the
Start
button or
f11
. This restores the computer to its factory condition.
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 –
◆
Turn on or restart the computer, and then press
esc
while the “Press the ESC key for Startup Menu”
message is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Then, press
f11
while the “Press <F11> for recovery”
message is displayed on the screen.
2. Click
System Recovery
in the Recovery Manager window.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
