Rebuilding The Hard Disk And Restoring The Operating System; Auto Rebuild And Restore - NEC PowerMate Enterprise Manual

2-36 Setup and Operation
See the section called "Restoring Applications."

Rebuilding the Hard Disk and Restoring the Operating System

The OS Restore allows you to repartition and/or reformat the hard disk and then reinstall
Windows 95 or Windows NT from the CD. You can rebuild the disk and reinstall the
operating system in one of two ways:
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Auto, to perform a standard rebuild and restore
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Custom, to rebuild and restore with greater control over restore functions.
The following sections explain how to use the NEC Select Install CD to rebuild and restore
the system. See "Auto Rebuild and Restore" to repartition and reformat the hard disk with
the OS restore. See "Custom Rebuild and Restore" for more options when you repartition
and/or reformat the hard disk with the OS restore.
After performing an OS restore that also repartitions and/or reformats the hard disk, run a
Selective Application Restore to reinstall any application that came with the system. See
"Restoring Applications" for directions on running this program.

Auto Rebuild and Restore

To perform an auto OS Restore that also repartitions and reformats the hard disk, boot the
system from the Select Install CD (in systems with a SCSI hard disk drive, boot the system
from the Boot Diskette and immediately insert the Select Install CD). When the system
boots, it automatically loads the MS-DOS -based Operating System Restore program.
CAUTION: If possible, back up data before
performing an OS restore.
NOTE: The Auto and Custom programs
repartition and/or reformat the hard disk drive
before reinstalling the operating system.
To only reinstall the operating system in a
Windows 95 system while leaving applications
and data files intact, see "Restoring the
Operating System."
CAUTION: If possible, back up data before
performing an OS restore.