IBM ATA-3 manual Backup Considerations, Creating, OS/2, Diskettes, Enter

Backup Considerations

To create a System Diskette for Windows 95:

If

you are

replacing

an

installed

hard

disk drive,

make

a backup copy

1.

Click

on

Start

from

the

main

screen.

2.

Select

Settings ;

click

onControl

Panel

.

of

the

data

from

the

drive

that

you

are

replacing.

If

you

do

not

know

3.

From

the

Control

Panel

screen,

open

Add/Remove Programs

.

how

to

back

up

your

hard

disk

drive,

see

the

documentation

that

4.

Select

the Startup

Disk

tab.

comes

with

your

operating

system.

After

the

new

hard

disk

drive

is

5.

Follow

the

instructions

on

the

screen.

installed

and

configured,

restore

your

backup

data to

your

new

drive.

You

can

also

use

the

FileCopy

utility

on

theDisk Manager

Diskette

to To create

a

Utility

(System)

Diskette

for OS/2:

copy

data

from

your

old

drive

to

your

new

drive.

For

information

1.

Open

OS/2

System

on

your

Desktop.

about

FileCopy

see,

“FileCopy”

on

page

2-18.

2.

Open

System

Setup

.

Creating

a

System

Diskette

If

you

can

not

restart

(boot)

your

computer

from

a

previously

installed

hard

disk

drive,

and

you

do

not

have

a

backup

diskette,

you

can

recover

if

you have

a

System

Diskette.

If

you

are

replacing your

primary

hard

disk

drive

and

it

contains

your operating system, create a

System

Diskette

before

you

start

your

installation.

To

create

a

System

Diskette

for

DOS

and

Microsoft

Windows

3.x:

1.

Insert

a

blank

diskette

into

drive

A.

2.

At

the

DOS

prompt,

type format

a:

/s

and

press

Enter .

The /s

parameter

creates

the

System

Diskette.

3.

Follow

the

instructions on

the

screen.

4.When the format process completes, copy the FDISK.COM,

FORMAT.COM, DISKCOPY.COM, CHKDSK.COM,

XCOPY.EXE, and	MEM.EXE	commands	from	the	DOS directory
on your existing	hard	disk drive	to	the	System Diskette.

3. Open	Create	Utility	Diskettes .
The	Create	Utility	Diskettes screen displays.

4. Follow the instructions on the screen.

OS/2

creates

three

(or

more)

Utility

Diskettes,

depending

upon

the

version

of

OS/2.

(Warp

Version

4

will create

four

diskettes.)

For information about creating a

System

Diskette

for

other

operating

systems,

see

the

documentation

that

comes

with

your

operating

system.

After

you

have

installed

and

configured

the

new

hard

disk

drive, copy

your

backup

data

to

the

new

drive.

You

can use

XCOPY

to

transfer

groups

of

files

from

one

hard

disk

drive

to

another

and

COPY

to

transfer

one

or

more

files

from

one

directory

to

another.

As

an alternative

to

XCOPY

you

can

also

use

the

FileCopy

utility on

the Disk Manager

Diskette

to

copy

data

from your old drive to your

new

drive.

For

information about

FileCopy

see,

“FileCopy”

on

page

2-18.

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