Instruction Manual

Notebook PC User Manual 17
Using Recovery DVD (on selected models)
IMPORTANT! Remove the optional secondary hard disk drive
before performing system recovery on your Notebook PC.
According to Microsoft, you may lose important data because of
setting up Windows Vista on the wrong disk drive or formatting
the incorrect drive partition. Refer to http://support.microsoft.
com/kb/937251/en-us for more details.
Using the Recovery DVD:
1. Insert the Recovery DVD into the optical drive. Your Notebook
PC needs to be powered ON.
2. Restart the Notebook PC and press [Esc] on bootup and select
the optical drive (may be labeled as “CD/DVD”) and press [Enter]
to boot from the Recovery DVD.
3. Select a partition option and click
Next. Partition options:
Recover Windows to first partition only.
This option deletes only the first partition and allows you to keep other
partitions, and to create a new system partition as drive “C”.
Recover Windows to entire HD.
This option deletes all partitions from your hard disk drive and creates
a new system partition as drive “C”.
Recover Windows to entire HD with 2 partition.
This option deletes all partitions from your hard drive and creates two
new partitions “C” (60%) and “D” (40%).
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the recovery
process.
WARNING: Do not remove the Recovery disc, unless instructed to
do so, during the recovery process or else your partitions will be
unusable.
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utilities.