On 6/15/2018 9:18 AM, Pisini, John wrote:
Make an image with macrium so you can restore it if you have to return it.
Either that or in the days of $100 500G SSD, just buy another SSD, put the original drive from the HP on the shelf, and then install to the fresh SSD (pretty amazing boot time -- 11 sec total from cold-power-on to kdm login). Login to full desktop in less than 2 sec (on an old HP i7 2nd gen)