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Restoring Your Computer
If disaster has struck and your system software is damaged or completely erased, this chapter provides you with
These steps will be successful only if you have backed up your system using Retropsect.
What’s contained in a full system restore?
•Your current operating system
•Your applications
•Your personal files
•Your computer’s settings - including the registry (on Windows)
Before you begin. . .
Because of factors like processor type, motherboard, video display card and other hardware that is specific to your brand and model of computer, we urge you to only do a full system restore to the same computer. Restoring your operating system, its applications and settings to another computer with different hardware is not supported and may cause significant problems with that computer.
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2The Maxtor OneTouch II drive, in combination with the included Dantz Retrospect Express software, supports a complete system restore capability (Operating System, drivers, applications, settings and user files) back to the original computer system (running the same operating system) that the backup copy was made from, when performed according to the steps described in this chapter. If you need to restore data to a different computer and / or a different operating system, this product will only support the restoration of user files and does not support under those circumstances restoration of the Operating System, drivers, applications or settings.
Basic Guidelines
For your system restore to be successful, we recommend that you restore your system only:
•To the same computer and same internal drive, or
•To the same computer and new internal drive
If you cannot restore to your original computer or an identical system, you can restore all of your personal files to a different computer. For more information, see www.maxtorkb.com.
Restoring Your Complete System
Macintosh OS 9
Before you begin, you must format your system hard drive and install your operating system. If you had multiple partitions on your hard drive(s), you must create and format the same number of disk partitions. These partitions must be of equal or greater size to what they were on your original system. For information on how to partition and format your system drive, see the Maxtor KnowledgeBase online at: www.maxtorkb.com.
Restoring your OS X system
For instructions on restoring your complete Macintosh OS X system, see the Quick Start poster included with your Maxtor OneTouch II drive.
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