Disaster Recovery - Maxtor OneTouch User Manual

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Disaster Recovery

If disaster has struck and your system software is damaged or
completely erased, this chapter provides you with step-by-step
instructions on how to restore your system.
These steps will be successful ONLY if you have backed up your
system using Retropsect and the steps outlined in the previous
chapter.
What's contained in a full system restore?
• Your current operating system
• Your applications
• Your personal files
• Your computer's settings - including the Registry (on Windows)
Before you begin. . .
Because of factors like processor type, motherboard, video display
card and other hardware that is specific to your brand and model of
computer, we urge you to ONLY do a full system restore to the
same computer. Restoring your operating system, its applications
and settings to another computer with different hardware is not
supported and may cause significant problems with that computer.
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Basic Guidelines
For your system restore to be successful, we recommend that
you restore your system only:
• To the same computer and same internal drive
• To the same computer and new internal drive
If you cannot restore to your original computer or an identical
system, you can restore all of your personal files to a different
computer. For more information see http://www.maxtorkb.com.
3 The OneTouch drive, in combination with the included Dantz
Retrospect software, supports a complete system restore capability
(Operating System, drivers, applications, settings and user files)
back to the original computer system (running the same operating
system) that the backup copy was made from, when performed
according to the steps described in this chapter. If you need to
restore data to a different computer and / or a different operating
system, this product will only support the restoration of user files
and does not support under those circumstances restoration of the
Operating System, drivers, applications or settings.
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