If The Operating System Does Not Boot From The Hard Disk Drive - Agilent Technologies PNA Series Service Manual

PNA Series Microwave Network Analyzers
E8361A

If the Operating System Does Not Boot From the Hard Disk Drive

If the network analyzer is unable to boot from the hard disk drive, then you must make a
DOS boot disk. To make this disk, you will need:
• a floppy disk
• a computer that is currently running DOS or Windows 95/98/ME/XP. Windows NT
or Windows 2000 cannot be used.
To create the DOS boot disk:
1. Right click on the
2. Select .
Format
3. Select
Make System Disk
To boot from the DOS boot disk:
4. Insert the newly created system disk into the network analyzer floppy disk drive and
restart the operating system. The network analyzer should detect this disk and boot
from it. If not, proceed to
Drive" on page D-6.
5. At the DOS prompt (
drive because a DOS operating system does not recognize the NTFS format and
assumes the first valid drive is C:.
6. Type and press
Autoexc.bat
7. Now that the analyzer system has booted, continue with the restoration procedure at
step 2 of "System Recovery Procedure" on page
Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows NT, and Windows 2000
are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Service Guide E8361-90001
drive.
A:
(or copy system files).
"If the Operating System Does Not Boot From the Floppy Disk
) type and press
A:\> CD C:
.
Enter
Operating System Recovery
System Recovery Procedure
. You are really changing to the D:
Enter
D-4.
D- 5