3-10 User’s Manual
Getting Started
Create Optical Recovery Discs
A recovery image of your computer is stored on the hard disk. You may use
this image to create CD or DVD recovery discs using the following steps:
1. Select either blank CDs or DVD media.
2. The application will allow you to choose a type of media to create
recovery CDs/DVD including: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL,
DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL and DVD+RW.
3. Turn on your computer without a PC card storage device such as Hard
Disk Drive (HDD) to open Windows XP.
4. Insert the (first) blank media into the tray of the optical disk drive.
5. Double click the Recovery Disc Creator icon on the Windows XP
desktop, or select the application from start Menu.
6. After Recovery Disc Creator starts, select the type of media and the title
you wish to copy to the media then click the Burn button.
Restoring the preinstalled software from the Recovery HDD
About 2.5GB of hard disk space is reserved for recovery partition.
When re-setting up your hard disk, do not change, delete or add partitions
in a manner other than specified in the manual. Otherwise, space for
software may be destroyed.
In addition, if you use a third-party partitioning program to reconfigure
partitions on your hard disk, it may become impossible to re-setup your
computer.
1. Turn off your computer.
2. While holding down 0 (zero) key on the keyboard, turn on your
computer.
3. A Menu appears, follow the on-screen instructions
Some media may not be compatible with the optical disk drive of your
computer. Please verify your optical disk drive supports the blank media
you choose.
If your optical disk drive can only write to CDs, select "CD" as the "Type"
on Recovery Disc Creator. If your optical disk drive of your computer can
write to either CD or DVDs, select the one you are using as the "Type" on
Recovery Disc Creator.
When sound mute is turned ON by the Fn + Esc key, turn OFF before
starting restore. Refer to Chapter 5, The Keyboard, for details.