Enabling Or Disabling Remote Boot - Acer Altos EasyStore User Manual

Chapter 5

Enabling or disabling remote boot

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If you need to recover your system disk or partition, using the recovery CD is
recommended (as described in
). However, if your computer does not support the recovery CD but does support
the PXE protocol, you can remotely boot your computer from a
backup on the storage system and then recover your system disk. (If you're not sure
if your computer supports the PXE protocol, try to enable remote boot. If your
computer does not support the PXE protocol, an error message will appear during
this process.)
Caution: It is strongly recommended that you determine whether or not your
computer supports the recovery CD before a system failure occurs. To do this,
perform steps 1 through 3 in
and use Diagnostic Mode to confirm that at least one network interface card is
supported.
If your computer does not support the recovery CD, you must enable remote boot
before a system failure occurs. Once your system has failed, you cannot enable
remote boot.
If your computer does not support either the recovery CD or the PXE protocol,
gather your hardware information (as described in step 3 in
disk using the recovery
be able to obtain an updated recovery CD or a new driver that will make your
computer compatible with your existing recovery CD.
You can enable remote boot only if the following criteria have been met:
Windows was installed on the first partition of the first disk in your computer.
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DiskSafe Express was installed on that system disk.
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You protected your system disk or partition.
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You are accessing the computer directly rather than using Remote Desktop.
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Notes:
If DiskSafe Express was installed on the same disk but a different partition
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than Windows, the entire system disk must be protected rather than each
individual partition. If you protected each partition individually, remove
protection for those partitions (as described in
protect the entire disk (as described in
You must wait until the initial backup of your system disk or partition has
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completed before you enable remote boot.
"Recovering a system disk using the recovery CD"
"Recovering a system disk using the recovery CD"
CD") and send it to your vendor. You might
Protecting Local Disks
"Recovering a system
"Removing protection") and
"Protecting your disks").
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