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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION The System Recovery Options menu contains several tools, such as Startup Repair, that can help you recover Windows from a serious error. This set of tools is preloaded on your computer's hard disk.
PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 2 – PROCEDURES TO PERFORM SYSTEM RECOVERY 1. Start up your Netbook 2. Boot up with Advanced Boot Option mode, by pressing F8 from keyboard, before Windows boot up.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com 5. Log on as a local user, or administrator if you wanted to access the command prompt too. 6. System Recovery Option will be prompted to screen when recovery is ready.
PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 3 – STARTUP REPAIRS Startup Repair can fix certain problems that might prevent Windows from starting correctly, such as missing or damaged system files, or corrupt Master Boot Record (MBR). If your computer fails to boot, this is the first option you should try.
PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 4 – SYSTEM RESTORE System Restore will restore your computer to an earlier state, provided there is at least one valid restore point. Restore points are automatically created by Windows usually after or before software installation and Windows update.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com 4. Select the restore point which you wanted to, and click on the Next button to continue. 5. Confirmation the restore point is prompted to the user, press Finish button to continue, else click Back to select another restore point, or click Cancel to terminate the System Restore and back to System Recovery Option menu.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com 7. If user selected Yes in step 6, the restore will begin. 8. When restore is completed, a confirmation and restart message will be prompted to user. Click Restart button to continue.
PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 5 – SYSTEM IMAGE RECOVERY System Image Recovery allows you to recover your computer from a saved hard disk image, if you have created one earlier. Hard disk image can be created from the Backup and Restore tool in the control panel.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com 4. If system image is unable to find on your local system, a message will alert to retry. Click Retry button to search again, else click Cancel button to manually select an image from your local system. Follow below illustration.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com 5. If system image is found on your local system, details of the system image will be retrieved and shown. Use the latest available system image (recommended) option is selected automatically. Click on the Next button to continue re-image.
PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 6 – WINDOWS MEMORY DIAGNOSTIC Windows Memory Diagnostic will scan your memory module (RAM) for faults. If an error is found the diagnostics tool will attempt to determine which particular memory module in your computer is causing these errors. If bad memory is found then you will need to replace the memory module.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com 4. Either restart right away or restart on the next computer start up, the memory check will perform as below illustration shown. 5. When Window Memory Diagnostic is completed checking, the computer will restart automatically to Windows.
PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 7 – COMMAND PROMPT Command Prompt will load the Windows Command Prompt, which you can use to execute commands view directory, copy or move important files to safer locations etc.
PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com CHAPTER 8 – BACKUP / CREATE SYSTEM IMAGE It is highly recommended to backup a system image into media, example: DVD-R, local hard disk or on a network location, so that anything that happened to the computer/notebook, restore can be easily done. Follow below procedures to perform the backup.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com 4. Create a system image window will be prompted on screen and start to look for backup devices. 5. At this point, user shall decide where the backup to be stored: On a hard disk b.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com On a hard disk User could insert external USB hard disk to backup, if local hard disk is insufficient space. Assumption below will backup system image to external hard disk partiton2 labeled as DC.Core_B.
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com On one or more DVDs User should have DVD writer available with numbers of DVD-R to perform the backup. Select drives that you wish to backup. After labeled DVD, insert it to DVD-ROM and click “OK”...
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PROLiNK® Glee Series Netbook/Notebook System Backup & Recovery (Windows®) www.prolink2u.com On a network location User could store the backup at another computer through network. It is blank initially when user select to backup on a network location. It is filled up...
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