HP Compaq Presario CQ40-601AX, Compaq Presario CQ40-603TU, Compaq Presario CQ40-605TU, Compaq Presario CQ40-606AU, Compaq Presario CQ40-606AX Backup and Recovery

Backup and Recovery

User Guide

© Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard
Development Company, L.P.

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Microsoft Corporation.

The information contained herein is subject
to change without notice. The only
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Nothing herein should be construed as
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or omissions contained herein.

First Edition: August 2009

Document Part Number: 539894-001

Product notice

This user guide describes features that are
common to most models. Some features
may not be available on your computer.

Table of contents

1 Overview

2 Creating recovery discs

3 Backing up your information

Using Windows Backup and Restore ................................................................................................... 4

Using system restore points ................................................................................................................. 5

When to create restore points .............................................................................................. 5

Create a system restore point .............................................................................................. 5

Restore to a previous date and time .................................................................................... 5

4 Performing a recovery

Recovering from the recovery discs ..................................................................................................... 6

Recovering from the dedicated recovery partition (select models only) ............................................... 7

Index ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8

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