Changing Or Adding Options; Using The Recovery Cd - Sharp PC-A820 Manual

Changing or Adding Options

This chapter describes how you can change or add two important optional items to
your computer; a port replicator, and a memory card. It also explains how to use the
Recovery CD to repair a corrupted hard disk drive.

Using the Recovery CD

If your hard disk drive ever gets corrupted, for example by a computer virus, you can
use the recovery CD to return the state of your hard disk to the way it was when your
computer shipped from the factory. Of course, you will lose any data that you
created and stored on your hard disk drive when you use the recovery CD, therefore
we recommend that you always keep up-to-date backups of important data on
separate media.
Using the Recovery CD deletes all the software and data on your
hard disk drive and returns your drive to its original state, with just
the Windows 98 operating system and the supplied software and
drivers. If you don't have backups of the data and software that you
have installed on the hard disk, you cannot restore them after using
the recovery CD.
Before you begin, make sure that the drive bay on the right side of the computer is
installed with the CD-ROM drive module.
1. Connect your computer to a power outlet with the AC adapter.
Do not attempt to use the recovery CD with the computer running on
battery power. The recovery process takes some time and it is
important that the process is not interrupted by loss of power.
2. Turn on your computer and at the Sharp logo and setup prompt, press F2 to run
the setup utility.
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