If The Operating System Does Not Boot From The Hard Disk Drive - Agilent Technologies E8362A Service Manual

PNA Series Microwave Network Analyzers
E8362A, E8363A, E8364A

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 A: drive.
2. Select Format.
3. Select Make System Disk (or copy system files).
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 used on the
C: drive. Therefore, the first valid drive found is D:, and the operating system assumes
it to be C:.
6. Type Autoexc.bat and press Enter.
7. Now that the analyzer system has booted, continue with the restoration procedure at
step 2 of "System Recovery Procedure" on page
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"If the Operating System Does Not Boot From the Floppy Disk
) type and press Enter. You are really changing to the D:
A:\> CD C:
Operating System Recovery
System Recovery Procedure
D-4.
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