3.A menu will appear stating ″Your computer originally included a Product Recovery program...Reinstall the Product Recovery Program? (Y/N)″.
Note: If the
4.Enter ″Y″ and the Service Partition will be created and loaded with D2D files.
Note: If you do not want to create the Service Partition, press ″N″, and then go to step 8.
5.Press Enter at the next window to continue.
The Service Partition is created. The system automatically reboots during this process.
The recovery process copies some files to the Service Partition and, PKUNZIPs others.
Follow the
The system reboots when the process is complete. Continue to step 6 to install the preloaded system.
Install the preloaded system from the CD.
6.Boot with the Recovery CD (and the boot diskette if required).
7.If the hard disk drive is blank, a menu will appear stating ″Your computer originally included a Product Recovery program...Reinstall the Product Recovery program? (Y/N)
To install the Service Partition, go to step 4.
To preload the hard disk drive without installing the Service Partition, press ″N″.
8.If a menu appears asking which operating system to install, highlight the proper operating system and press ″ENTER″.
9.A menu will appear stating ″Full Recovery:″. Press ″ENTER″ to select.
10.Enter ″Y″ at the three windows which follow.
11.Follow the prompts to complete Recovery.
To create a recovery repair diskette
The Recovery Repair diskette is used to recover the prompt that is needed to access the Product Recovery program, if the prompt does not appear. Make a Recovery Repair diskette and save it for future use. To make a Recovery Repair diskette:
1.Shut down and restart the computer.
2.Attach the external diskette drive to the computer.
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