Restoring Your Software - HP Compaq Presario,Presario 8380 Supplementary Manual

Restoring Your Software

If your software accidentally gets erased or
corrupted, you can reinstall the software. You may
need to reinstall all the software on your hard disk
or just certain applications. These two recovery
methods are:
System Recovery – Performs a full recovery
with or without completely reformatting your
hard disk. It reinstalls all application programs
included with your HP Pavilion PC.
Application Recovery – Allows you to select
the applications or drivers to be recovered. This
method preserves all data files that you have
created on your hard disk.
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Getting Help
An HP Pavilion Recovery CD is provided for each
method. The CDs contain a copy of the software
originally installed on your system and can be used
only on the HP Pavilion PC model that they
came with.
Running the System Recovery Program
Warning:
Formatting the hard disk removes all
information on the hard disk. If you reformat, you lose all
installed software and files created since you bought your
computer. You must reinstall software not originally on the
computer.
To run the HP Pavilion System Recovery program:
1
With the computer turned on, insert the System
Recovery CD in the CD-ROM drive.
2
Restart your computer. (Click the Start button on
the taskbar, choose Shut Down and then
Restart.)