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‎11-09-2014 06:32 PM

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I have a new Pavilion 15-N297SA coming this week and what i like to do before i boot the machine into windows for the first time is put my cloning software into the DVD drive and turn the laptop on and press a certain key to bring up boot option, you boot from hard drive/dvd drive/usb/external hdd etc etc, then take an image of ALL partitions including hidden and recovery options so just in case something goes wrong i have that to fall back on.

 

Now does anyone know what key i need to press to get the boot option up before it boots into the OS?

 

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‎11-09-2014 07:12 PM - last edited on ‎09-16-2021 11:52 AM by Retired

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Options HP Boot Menu Key:


✅Tap the Esc key which will bring up a menu.
✅From there tap F9 Boot Options.  
✅However on most Windows 8 machines Secure Boot will have to be disabled & Legacy boot enabled in BIOS to allow booting from a CD/DVD.
✅That will be F10 from the menu after Esc.

 

:Arrow_Right:Some helpful links/info.>>

HP PCs - Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows 😎

HP PCs - Performing a System Recovery (Windows 10) 

 
 

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‎11-09-2014 07:12 PM - last edited on ‎09-16-2021 11:52 AM by Retired

HP Recommended

Options HP Boot Menu Key:


✅Tap the Esc key which will bring up a menu.
✅From there tap F9 Boot Options.  
✅However on most Windows 8 machines Secure Boot will have to be disabled & Legacy boot enabled in BIOS to allow booting from a CD/DVD.
✅That will be F10 from the menu after Esc.

 

:Arrow_Right:Some helpful links/info.>>

HP PCs - Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows 😎

HP PCs - Performing a System Recovery (Windows 10) 

 
 

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‎11-12-2014 10:17 AM

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Hi Cheryl thanks for this it gave me the info i needed just now need to find the right Windows 7 drivers, as loking at support website seems win 7 is not supported that much.

 

 

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