Choosing A Restore Program - NEC POWERMATE 5100 Service Manual

Choosing a Restore Program

It's important to choose the appropriate restore program. In some uses, the
program can delete all the data, as well as the operating system and/or
applications on the hard drive. Check the following list to verify that the
program being selected fits the restore conditions.
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Repartition and/or reformat the hard drive and restore the operating
system ("Auto" or "Custom").
If a catastrophic system failure occurs, use the OS restore to repartition
and reformat the hard drive and restore the operating system. Using the
program is the first phase of a full system restore. After restoring the OS,
continue with a Selective Application Restore.
See "Rebuilding the Hard Drive and Restoring the Operation System,"
and under it, either "Auto Rebuild and Restore" or "Custom Rebuild and
Restore."
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Restore only the operating system ("Fix OS").
If rebuilding the hard drive is not required, use the OS Restore to reinstall
only the operating system (for systems running the Windows 95 or
Windows 98 operating system). It is not necessary to perform a selective
application restore after reinstalling the operating system.
See "Restoring the Operating System."
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Restore some or all of the applications and online documentation that
came on the NEC Select Install CD.
The Selective Application Restore takes place after the Windows OS has
booted. It allows choosing the application software to reinstall. Use this
program to restore selected applications from the CD after rebuilding the
hard drive, or at any time to reinstall a software package that came with
the computer.
See "Installing Applications" in this section and Appendix A, "NEC
PowerMate 5100 Series Release Notes," for details on installing
applications.
If possible, back up the data before performing an OS
restore.
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