Fujitsu T731 manual Restoring Your Pre-installed Software, Saving your Factory Image

Restoring Your Pre-installed Software

It is very important that you create DVD copies of your Factory Image before beginning to use your system. To do so, follow the instructions below in the “Saving Your Factory Image” section.

Along with instructions on saving your Factory Image, this document outlines several other important procedures, such as making a system image, restoring your Factory Image and system images, managing your images, and restoring the partitions on a hard drive.

•IN ORDER TO INSTALL APPLICATIONS AND DRIVERS, MAKE COPIES OF FACTORY AND SYSTEM IMAGES, AND BURN DRIVERS AND APPLICATION RESTORE DISCS, APPLICATION MEDIA, AND BOOTABLE DISCS YOU MUST HAVE AN INTERNAL OR EXTERNALLY CONNECTED WRITABLE DVD DRIVE.

•IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU COPY YOUR FACTORY IMAGE TO REMOVABLE MEDIA (E.G., DVD DISCS). FAILURE TO DO SO COULD RESULT IN AN INABILITY TO RESTORE THE IMAGE AT A FUTURE DATE.

•WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE DVD-ROR DVD+R DISCS FOR YOUR BACKUP, BUT SUPPORTED MEDIA* FOR IMAGE BACKUPS INCLUDE:

FOR FACTORY IMAGE, DAR, APPLICATION DATA, AND BOOTABLE DISC: DVD-R/+R.

FOR USER-CREATED BACKUP IMAGE: DVD-R/+R, DVD-RW/+RW, DVD-DL.

*DEPENDING UPON YOUR OPTICAL DRIVE AND MEDIA FORMAT USED, SOME MEDIA TYPES MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE FOR CREATING IMAGE BACKUPS.

DUE TO CERTAIN LICENSING REQUIREMENTS, SOME THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS WILL NEED TO BE INSTALLED

SEPARATELY USING THE APPLICATION MEDIA BUNDLED WITH YOUR SYSTEM.

Saving your Factory Image

When you purchased your system, a copy of the pre-installed Factory Image was loaded into a hidden partition on your hard disk drive. Having a copy of the original Factory Image available to you means that in the event of system failure, you will be able to restore it to its original state.

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