When Should You Rebuild; Hard Disk Preparation - Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 Series User Reference Manual

When Should You Rebuild?

You should rebuild your system from the system backup
diskettes when:
Note: These rebuild procedures overwrite what is currently
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on your disk and create a new partition. Ensure that you
always have a current backup of your data.

Hard Disk Preparation

To load initialization files, complete the following steps:
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you replace a hard drive and want to restore primary
system files to the new drive.
a fatal system error occurs and you are unable to
access system files.
Insert the TravelMate 5000 System Files Recovery
Diskette into drive A: and boot the system.
A Recovery menu appears.
Select Delete Part and press Enter.
You are prompted to choose an FDISK option.
Select Option 3 to delete partition or Logical DOS Drive.
You are prompted to choose the DOS partition or logical
DOS drive to delete.
Select Option 1 to delete primary DOS partition.
Select Option 1 to confirm deletion of the primary DOS
partition.
Restoring System Files
Installing and Using Applications 2-7