4-34 Installing the Operating System
Updating System Recovery Information
To prepare for a situation when the operating system has been destroyed, be sure to "Update
Repair Information" as well as "Update the System" when you modified the system
configuration so that the system can be recovered correctly in any case. System repair
information includes configuration files and registry files.
NOTES:
! It is possible to save system repair information on a floppy disk, but
the information may not fully be saved in one floppy disk when the
registry has become large as a result of the installation of additional
applications.
In this case, the recovery disk will not be created correctly, but a
message to inform you of that does not appear. On Windows NT,
system repair can be performed by reading the repair information that
exists on the hard disk, so it is not necessary to create a repair floppy
disk.
IMPORTANT:
! "Update System Recovery Information" is intended to enable you to
start the system when some problems occurred on the system and the
system will not start. "Update System Recovery Information" is not
an operation to backup the system.
! If the system or its component have been modified during operation,
follow the procedure below to perform "Update System Recovery
Information".
1. Click [Run] in the Start pop-up menu.
2. Type "rdisk.exe" in "File Name" and click [OK].
The [Repair Disk Utility] dialog box appears.
3. Click [Update Repair Info].
4. Click [Yes].
The message "Do you want to create System Recovery Disk?" appears.
5. Click [No].
6. Click [Complete].