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Restoring the Netbook to Factory Default Settings
Step 1: Create a Bootable Flash Drive:
Note: Any data on the hard drive and USB drive used for installing gOS will be
erased. Users are advised to make a backup of the data before starting the
following process.
1.
Please use a PC with Windows operating system.
2.
Make sure the USB drive used is formatted for FAT32 file system.
3.
Download gOSConvert3.exe from the following link and run gOSConvert3.exe,
and extract to your PC, a gOS folder is created in the extracted path.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/gOSConvert3.exe
4.
Download the Kogan gOS.iso image file from the following link and place the ISO
file in the gOS folder:
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/s2eg5d
5.
From your gOS folder, click fixgOS2.bat. A console window will be open and then
enter the Drive letter of the USB pen drive and press enter.
6.
This program will extract the files from Kogan gOS image and copy it to the USB
drive.
7.
If using windows XP, just press any key to make USB drive bootable. If using Vista,
you may see a "failure to update the MBR" error at the top of the next screen. In
this case, just ignore the error message and press enter.
8.
Go to my computer, open the USB drive. Look for file makeboot.bat. Right click on
it and select run as administrator. A console window will open press enter twice.
Now the USB drive is ready for installing gOS.
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