Back Up And Recover Your Data; Create A Recovery Drive; Required Materials; To Create A Recovery Drive - Thermo Scientific Nicolet Summit User Manual

Back up and Recover Your Data

Create a Recovery Drive

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Before you start collecting data, you should take a few precautionary steps to protect your
system from potential problems in the future. Windows 10 includes several built-in tools for
backing up and recovering your data.
IMPORTANT! To ensure that you can recover any data in the event of damage to the hard
drive or operating system, create recovery media, create a system image, and establish
procedures for backing up your data.
Create a recovery drive so that you can access advanced startup options in Windows 10—such
as System Image Recovery, System Restore, and Startup Settings—even in your installation of
Windows becomes damaged.

Required Materials

• FAT32 formatted flash drive with at least 8 GB of storage
NOTICE Everything on the drive will be deleted during this process. Before you proceed,
make sure you have backed up any files you wish keep.
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To create a recovery drive

1. Insert the flash drive in one of the USB ports on the side of the spectrometer.
2. In the Windows 10 search box in the taskbar, search for "Create Recovery Drive" and
select Create Recovery Drive.
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