Note: Network drivers are not automatically restored
with Windows NT 4.0; you will need to reinstall
them.
Note: If you use Windows 2000 or Windows 98,
restart the system by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or
by turning the computer off and then on again.
The computer will restart with the pre-installed
operating system, drivers, and software.
Using the recovery CD
Tocreate the service partition and install the preloaded
system from the recovery CD, do the following:
Tocreate the service partition:
1. Erase all partitions on the hard-disk drive, using FDISK
or a similar application.
2. Boot with the recovery CD (and the boot diskette if
required.)
3. Following message is displayed: “Yourcomputer
originally included a Product Recovery program ...
Reinstall the Product Recovery program? (Y/N) [ ]”.
Note: If the hard-disk drive contains any partitions, you
do not receive this message; go to step 1.
4. Press Ykey. The service partition is created and
loaded with the Product Recovery program files.
Note: If you do not want to create the service partition,
press N key,and then go to step 8.
5. At next window,press Enter to continue.
vThe service partition is created. The system
automatically reboots during this process.
vThe recovery process copies some files to the
service partition, and PKUNZIPs others.
vFollow the prompts. Youmay be prompted to
change CDs.
vWhen the process is complete, the system reboots.
Continue to step 6 to install preloaded system.
Install preloaded system from CD:
6. Boot with the recovery CD (and the boot diskette if
required.)
7. If the hard-disk drive is blank, the following message
is displayed: “Yourcomputer originally included a
Product Recovery program ... Reinstall the
Product Recovery program? (Y/N) [ ]”.
vToinstall the service partition, go to step 4.
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