Creating An Emergency Recovery-Repair Diskette; Creating An Ibm Enhanced Diagnostics Diskette - IBM 6219 - IntelliStation M - Pro User Manual

Creating an emergency recovery-repair diskette

At your earliest opportunity, create a recovery-repair diskette and an IBM Enhanced
Diagnostics diskette, and store them in a safe place. In the unlikely event that your
Windows desktop becomes unusable, you can use the recovery-repair diskette to
access the Product Recovery program. Additional information about the diskette is
in Access IBM. For more information about using this diskette, see "Using the
recovery-repair diskette" on page 84.
Complete the following steps to create a recovery-repair diskette:
1. From Access IBM, click the How do I tab; then, click Protect data.
2. Click Creating emergency diskettes.
3. Click Recovery Repair diskette.
4. Follow the instructions on the screen.
See "Creating an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette" for information about how to
create an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette.

Creating an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette

The IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette is a self-starting diagnostics diskette used
to test hardware components on your computer.
You can use one of the following methods to create an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics
diskette:
v Create a diskette using Access IBM
v Download a program image from the World Wide Web
v Create a diskette from the Device Drivers and IBM Enhanced Diagnostics CD
Complete the following steps to create an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette using
Access IBM:
1. Double-click the Access IBM icon and click the How do I... tab; then, click
2. Click Creating emergency diskettes → Diagnostics diskette. A help panel with
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to create the diskette.
Complete the following steps to create a startable IBM Enhanced Diagnostics
diskette from the World Wide Web:
1. Go to http://www.ibm.com.
2. Click Support & downloads.
3. Click Search technical support.
4. In the Enter keyword(s) field, type diagnostics 6219, and click Submit.
5. From the "Search results" page, click the Enhanced Diagnostics item for your
6. On the next page, click the executable file for the Enhanced Diagnostics code to
7. At a command prompt, change to the directory where the file was downloaded.
8. Insert a blank, high-density diskette into the diskette drive.
9. Type filename x: where filename is the name of the file you downloaded and x
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instructions for creating a diagnostics diskette appears.
computer.
download it (be sure to download the file to a hard disk directory and not to a
diskette). You can click the text file to display the readme file.
is the letter for the diskette drive; then, press Enter.