Restarting The Omnibook; Rebooting The Omnibook; To Reboot Normally (From Drive C); To Reboot From A Floppy Disk - HP OmniBook 800 User Manual

4. Select the disk drive to defragment. This speeds up disk access and
saves space by consolidating file fragments into contiguous units.

Restarting the OmniBook

In certain situations you may want to restart the OmniBook. For example,
you may have made a change in a system file and now want to make that
change active—so you need to reboot the OmniBook.
Under certain unpredictable conditions, the operating system may
unexpectedly get stuck in a state where nothing seems to work—so you may
need to reset the OmniBook.
This section shows how to
Reboot the OmniBook to load the software again.
Reset the OmniBook for a hardware check and reboot.

Rebooting the OmniBook

Rebooting essentially starts up the OmniBook software from scratch—your
current work session is discarded, and the operating system rereads the
system files to determine the proper configuration. This is the same as
rebooting a PC.

To reboot normally (from drive C)

1. Click Start, Shut Down, then click a shut-down option. (If the OmniBook
has stopped responding, try pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL.) In certain
situations, you might need to press the
2. If your OmniBook doesn't restart successfully, press CTRL+ALT+DEL
again, but when Starting Windows... appears on the display, press F8.
Then choose the log option or another option and investigate the
problem. See "Solving Problems."
If your system doesn't succeed with a normal reboot, one or more of your
system files on drive C may be bad. If you have a floppy boot disk available,
you can reboot from the floppy drive (see "To reboot from a floppy disk"
below)—or you can selectively reboot from drive C. See
doesn't reboot successfully."

To reboot from a floppy disk

1. Plug in the OmniBook floppy drive.
2. Insert a good "boot" disk in the drive—a system disk, which contains
system files. You can use your Support Utility disk.
3. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot from the floppy disk.
If you are using the Support Utility disk, choose the Minimum Startup option.
This starts the OmniBook in a fixed, minimum configuration that facilitates
recovery:
reset button.
"If the OmniBook
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