Reinstalling The Software; General Installation Procedure; Restoring The Software To Factory State Using The Restore Cd - Siemens SIMATIC Rack PC 840 V2 Operating Instructions Manual

Maintenance and service

11.2 Reinstalling the software

11.2 Reinstalling the software
11.2
11.2.1

General installation procedure

In case of software errors, you can reinstall your software using the Recovery CD, the
Documentation and Drivers CD or the Restore DVD.
Recovery CD:
Contains the tools for setting up hard disk drives and the operating system.
Documentation and Drivers CD:
Contains the documentation and the hardware drivers.
Restore DVD:
Contains a hard disk image file with the original software (operating system with installed
hardware drivers).
11.2.2

Restoring the software to factory state using the Restore CD

You can restore the software to the original factory state using the Restore CD (not included
in all package variants). The DVD contains the necessary images and tools for transferring
the factory software to the hard disk of your device. You can restore the entire hard disk with
drive C: (system) and drive D: or only drive C:. at the command line input. This allows you to
retain any user data on drive D.
Retrieving an authorization or license key from the hard disk
• Check if you can retrieve your authorization or license key from the hard disk and perform
• If it is not possible to perform a backup, contact the Customer Support Hotline. There you
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the procedure described below if this is possible.
can obtain information necessary for your software authorization.
Caution
With the option "Restore system partition only", all data on drive C: (System) will be
deleted. All data, user settings and all authorizations or license keys on drive C: will be
lost in the process! All data on drive C: of your hard disk will be deleted. Setup formats
the hard disk partition and reinstalls the original factory software.
When you select the "Restore entire hard disk" option, ALL the data, user settings and
authorizations or license keys will be lost on the hard disk.
Operating Instructions, Edition 05/2006, A5E00248055-04
SIMATIC Rack PC 840 V2