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First Edition: August 2015
Document Part Number: 830252-001
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Table of contents
1 Introducing Windows 10 ................................................................................................................................. 1
2 Navigating the Start menu ............................................................................................................................. 2
Using the new Search feature ................................................................................................................................ 2
3 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ............................................................................................................. 3
Creating recovery media and backups .................................................................................................................. 3
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ........................................................................... 3
Using Windows tools .............................................................................................................................................. 4
Restore and recovery ............................................................................................................................................. 5
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ............................................................................................. 5
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................... 5
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................... 6
Using HP Recovery media to recover ................................................................................ 6
Changing the computer boot order .................................................................................. 7
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ........................................... 7
4 More HP resources ......................................................................................................................................... 8
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