Using Your Notebook's Recovery Cds; When Would It Be Necessary To Use The Recovery Cds; To Use The Recovery Cds - Acer TravelMate 530 Training Manual

Notebook Training Manual for Acer TravelMate 530

Using your notebook's Recovery CDs

IMPORTANT:
THESE CDs WILL DELETE ALL DATA ON YOUR NOTEBOOK AND WILL
OVERWRITE ALL SETTINGS THAT YOU HAVE CHANGED.
DO NOT USE THESE CDs UNLESS YOU HAVE A SEPARATE COPY OF ALL
THE FILES YOU HAVE CREATED SINCE YOU RECEIVED YOUR
NOTEBOOK. YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO MAKE A NOTE OF YOUR
SETTINGS.

When would it be necessary to use the Recovery CDs?

Only use these CDs if you are having difficulties with your notebook and you have sought
help within your school or you have contacted the Department's Customer Service Centre and
they have advised you to use the Recovery CD. These CDs disk will return your notebook to
its original configuration, thus fixing any problems caused by software changes since you
received your notebook.
The Recovery CDs will NOT reinstall:
Encarta 2003
Windows XP Interactive Training
Office XP (and Publisher XP) Clip Art
Visio 2002 Viewer.

To use the Recovery CDs

1. Turn your notebook on.
2. Press F12.
3. Put Recovery CD - Disk 1 into the CD drive.
4. Using the arrow keys, select Boot from CD.
5. Press <Enter>. The Recovery process will start.
6. Follow any instructions.
7. Wait until the imaging software has finished (about 10 minutes) then restart your
notebook and copy your files back onto it. Replace all the settings for internet, clock,
mouse etc.
8. Put the Recovery CDs in a safe place.
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