User manual NEC VERSA FX

[. . . ] Proprietary Notice and Liability Disclaimer The information disclosed in this document, including all designs and related materials, is the valuable property of NEC Computers Inc. NECC and/or its licensors, as appropriate, reserve all patent, copyright and other proprietary rights to this document, including all design, manufacturing, reproduction, use, and sales rights thereto, except to the extent said rights are expressly granted to others. The NECC product(s) discussed in this document are warranted in accordance with the terms of the Warranty Statement accompanying each product. However, actual performance of each such product is dependent upon factors such as system configuration, customer data, and operator control. [. . . ] Exit -- Exits the NEC Product Recovery Utility. ! Full Disk Drive Restore If your preinstalled software becomes unusable and you cannot boot from the hard disk, use the Product Recovery Utility to restore your system to its initial shipping configuration. The Full Disk Drive restore option erases the hard disk completely before reinstalling the files. The Full Disk Drive restore option deletes all files on the hard drive and replaces them with the original factory installed files. Only use the Full Disk Drive restore option if the preinstalled software is unusable. Use the Product Recovery Utility to perform a Full Disk Drive restore as follows: 1. 4. Check the Product Recovery CD title and make sure that it is the correct CD for your NEC Versa computer and operating system. Power off your system before connecting the external CD-ROM drive to your NEC Versa. Put the CD into the CD-ROM drive tray, close the drive door, and power on your system. Use the VersaGlide touchpad to position the cursor on the Accept button. If you decline the agreement, the recovery utility exits. 5. In the NEC Product Recovery Utility screen, use the VersaGlide touchpad to choose Full Disk Drive to restore your hard disk drive to its original factory installed state. 4-10 Using the Operating System and Utilities Choose your restore option carefully to prevent losing data and applications installed on your system. 6. Read the Warning screen. A warning displays indicating that your hard disk is about to be erased. 7. Select Continue to proceed to perform a Full Disk Drive restore. If you select Back, the recovery utility returns to the prior screen which has an exit option. If you select Continue, a screen with progress bars displays and lets you know the progress of the recovery. Do not turn off or disturb the system during the recovery process. 8. 9. When the recovery process is complete, you are prompted to remove the CD from the CD-ROM drive and reboot your system. A series of hardware detection screens display, the system reboots and the Windows Setup screen appears. You are required to reenter your Microsoft license number. Using the Operating System and Utilities 4-11 Partition Only Restore If your preinstalled software on drive C: of your multiple partitioned drive becomes unusable and you cannot boot from the hard disk, use the Product Recovery Utility to restore your primary partition to its initial shipping configuration. Use the Partition Only restore option only if your hard disk drive consists of multiple partitions and if drive C: contains the operating system and related drivers. Move all other data and applications to other partitions (drives) or the Partition Only restore process will erase them completely. The Partition Only restore option deletes all files on drive C: and replaces them with the original factory installed files. Only use the Partition Only restore option if the preinstalled software on drive C: is unusable. For important information about partitioning your hard disk drive, see the section, "Partition Magic, " earlier in this chapter. Use the Product Recovery Utility to perform a Partition Only restore as follows: 1. 4. Check the Product Recovery CD title and make sure that it is the correct CD for your NEC Versa computer and operating system. Power off your system before connecting the external CD-ROM drive to your NEC Versa. Put the CD into the CD-ROM drive tray, close the drive door, and reboot your computer. Use the VersaGlide touchpad to position the cursor on the Accept button. [. . . ] The system returns to an initial or arbitrarily selected condition. warm swap Process of swapping devices in and out of a computer system without turning off the power. The system must be in a sleep state before removing or inserting a device. waveform A graphic representation of a sound wave as displayed on an oscilloscope, which converts sound waves into electronic signals. write To record or store information to a storage device. X XGA Extended Graphics Array. This high-resolution graphics standard supports 640 x 480 ­ 1024 x 768 pixel and 16 million simultaneous colors. XGA also supports noninterlaced monitors. Z zoomed video A direct high-speed connection between the video, audio, and graphics subsystems within the computer that provides the high-quality path required for smooth video playback or TV tuner transmission. [. . . ]