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The Disaster Recovery (DR) process enables you to recover from hard disk failure and should be used in emergency situations only. If you do not have a Disaster Recovery Set, see Creating the Disaster Recovery Set. If you created a DR Set, follow the steps below.
Before using Disaster Recovery, decide if another recovery method can be implemented instead. For example, if the problem appears to be a Windows system problem, such as a corrupt registry, try to recover by following the steps outlined in your Microsoft Windows User's Manual before using Disaster Recovery.
If your hard drive failed completely and you have replaced it, Disaster Recovery may be the best method for recovery. However, you may also consider re-installing Windows, re-installing your backup software, then selectively restoring the rest of the files you need.
To use Disaster Recovery for Windows 9x:
The Disaster Recovery screen appears.
Enter
:*For instructions on the use of these utilities, please refer to your operating system user manual or contact your operating system's manufacturer.
When you are done preparing your hard disk, at the prompt, type (Your boot drive
letter):\RECOVER, and press Enter
.
F5
.
The following prompt should appear:
Please insert Disaster Recovery Media #1 into your (device
name).
Enter
.You will then be prompted to select a drive, or volume to recover. If you have only one drive, it will be automatically selected for recovery and this prompt will not appear.
Up
and Down
arrow keys, then pressing Enter
.You will then be asked to confirm your selections before recovering your information.
Enter
to confirm your selections. Disaster Recovery will begin recovering the Windows File System.
Enter
. If there is more than one volume to be recovered, you may select it at this time.
After recovering the volume(s), you may wish to view the REPORT.TXT file which contains a text summary of the files that could not be recovered. If you wish to view this file, you must first exit the program by pressing the ESC
key twice, then typing EDIT REPORT.TXT. After reading the text, press ALT
+F
, then press X
to exit the editor.
Your recovery is complete. Remove any media from your machine and restart your computer.
To use Disaster Recovery for Windows NT:
A minimal install of the Windows NT Workstation will be performed from the Disaster Recovery Set.
Disaster Recovery screens will display messages instructing you when to insert each of the diskettes from your Disaster Recovery Set.
Only the boot drive and the NT installation drive need to be partitioned at this time. You will be able to partition and format other drives at a later time through the Disk Administrator in the Disaster Recovery process.
The Recovery Wizard should appear now and guide you through the steps necessary to recover your system.
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