HP Backup and Recovery Manager Primer

© 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

HP Backup and Recovery Manager from Softthink – New Recovery Solution

February 22, 2006

April 9, 2023 HP Confidential 2

Platform affected - 2006• The following platform will be ship without

OS or DRDVD

- Angelfire 3.0, Davos 3.0, Gallo 1.0, Opus 1.0, Caymus 1.0, Heavenly 2.0 and Taos 2.0.

• HP will be able to use the recovery partition on the HDD to customer whose HDD has been change or damage.


Things to take note 1/2• The making of recovery disc should not be on

a RW media, only CD-R and DVD+/-R.• The Base Recovery disc set can only be

created once.• Estimate # of media needed when creating

the recovery disc

- DVD media Dual Layer – 1

- DVD media normal – 2

- CD media – 11

This will be shown when you create recovery discs.


Things to take note 2/2• Notebook must be on AC before creating the

recovery CD. No check thereafter if the AC is unplug during the process.

• Any third party application installed by customer will not be recover by the base recovery discs, customer will need installed the application themselves.

• If OS is corrupted and cannot boot into windows, recovery can be perform by holding the F11 key when the unit boot.− Provided if the HDD is still functioning.

• If the HDD fails, you can use of the recovery disc that you create to recover the system back to the factory configuration. It is important that the recovery disc is created by the customer.


Accessing HP Backup and Recovery Manager• 3 Items are

available when you access the Backup & Recovery folder−HP Backup and

Recovery Manager−HP Backup

Scheduler−Remove HP

Recovery Partition


HP Backup and Recover Manager Welcome Screen

•Users are presented with three options−Create Factory

Software recovery media−Backup files or

the entire system−Recover files or

the entire system


Create Factory Recovery Media • Customers can create −Factory Image recovery discs

• Like the old QRCDs

• Estimates the number of discs

−Application and Driver Recovery discs• Like DRCD


Backup• With HP Backup and Recovery customers

can:−Backup individual files or folders−Backup the

entire drive−Create a

recovery point• The initial recovery

point captures the entire drive; subsequent recovery points are incremental

−Schedule backups


Recover• With HP Backup and Recovery customers

can:−Restore individual files or folders−Backup the

important filesbefore restoring−Restore the

entire drive through PC Recovery


Driver and Application Recovery• Driver and Application Recovery is

handled through Software Setup


Advanced Backup and Restore• With HP

Backup and Recovery customers can:−Technically

proficient customers can access an advanced interface for backup and restore

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