Recovering Your System - Gateway MX6452 User Manual

Important
Use a permanent
marker to label each
disc "Gateway Drivers
and Applications
Recovery." As you
remove each disc from
the drive, use the
marker to label each
disc 1 of x, 2 of x, 3 of
x, and so on.

Recovering your system

Important
If your hard drive has
failed and you cannot
restore the software
from the hard drive,
contact Gateway
Customer Care for
help. For a fee,
Customer Care may be
able to provide a set of
recovery discs to
restore your notebook.
For more help, you can
find the Gateway
Customer Care
contact information
on the label located on
the bottom of your
notebook.
When the disc is complete, remove that
7
disc and insert another.
Repeat steps 5-7 for each recovery file until
8
each file is recorded onto a disc. You are
done.
If you have problems with your notebook and
you need to recover your system, you can
restore specific drivers and programs from a set
of recovery discs, roll back your system to a
previous condition when drivers and programs
were working correctly, or reinstall everything
from the notebook's hard drive.
To selectively restore device drivers or
■
programs, see
and software" on page
- OR -
To restore your system to a previous
■
condition when software and device
drivers were working correctly, see
"Recovering your system using Microsoft
System Restore" on page
- OR -
To reinstall everything, see
■
your system from the hard drive" on
page 46.
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