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Recovering Your Data

Recovering Your Data

If you are certain that you have lost your data due to a major system problem, such as a hard drive failure, it will be necessary to recover your data by using the most recent Disaster Recovery Set. Please note that the process for recovering data in Windows NT differs from that for Windows 95 and Windows 98.

What you will need

To recover the data on your system, you will need the following items:

For Windows 95/98 and Windows NT

■HP Disaster Recovery Set

■HP CD-Writer Plus drive

Data Recovery

For Windows 95 and Windows 98

If necessary, you can prepare your hard disk using the following tools which are located on the Disaster Recovery Diskette:

■FDISK—Re-partitions your hard disk

■FORMAT—Formats one or more partitioned drives

■SYS—Installs the system boot files onto the hard disk

NOTE: For instructions on the use of these utilities, please refer to your operating system user manual or contact your operating system’s manufacturer.

To recover your data:

1.Replace any lost hard drives with comparable drives.

NOTE: In order to recover all of your information, HP Disaster Recovery must have at least as much hard disk space as existed before the drive failure.

2.Insert the Windows Startup Disk (diskette #1 of the DR Set) into your machine’s 3.5” boot floppy drive and restart your computer.