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4Turn on the system and press <F11> (one-time boot menu) during the power on system test (POST). The system will display “Entering Boot Menu…” in the upper right corner of the screen and continue with the POST process.

5Once finished with the initial boot, you will see a text menu of all bootable storage devices.

NOTE: If you see any reference to “Virtual Media” in the list, you must follow

the procedure in Appendix D: Modifying Remote Access Console Virtual Media Status to disable the Dell Remote Access Console (DRAC) virtual media devices or else you will receive an error during the image recovery process.

Select the optical device where your recovery CD is located. For internal optical drives, you will select the device listed in Figure 15 and press

ENTER.

Figure 15. Server Boot Device Menu Figure 16. Recovery CD Loading

6The recovery environment will start (see Figure 16). You should expect a delay when the progress bar reaches the far right. Once the recovery environment is completely loaded, the system will be ready to begin the recovery process (see Figure 17). Press ENTER twice to confirm that you want to reimage the internal storage device. Remember, this process will erase all configuration information from your internal solid-state storage.

After reimaging, you will need to reconfigure your VMware ESX Server software and import any virtual machines you would like to run on this system.

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