User manual NEC VERSA SXI

[. . . ] 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. [. . . ] 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. 3. Check the Product Recovery CD title and make sure that it is the correct CD for your NEC Versa computer and operating system. 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. If you decline the agreement, the recovery utility exits. 4-14 Using the Operating System and Utilities 4. In the NEC Product Recovery utility screen, use the VersaGlide touchpad to choose Partition Only to restore drive C: of a multiple partitioned drive to its original factory installed state. Choose your restore option carefully to prevent losing data and applications installed on your system. If the hard disk is configured with multiple or extended partitions you may have to reinstall some software to restore configuration settings and shared files. 5. Read the Warning screen. A warning displays indicating that drive C: (the primary drive/partition) is about to be erased and formatted. It may be necessary to reinstall software to the other drives (partitions) to reestablish Start Menu links and other configuration requirements stored on drive C:. 6. Select Continue to proceed to perform a Partition Only 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. 7. 8. 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 4-15 5 Using the System Drives and Bays !! SuperDisk Drive NEC VersaBay III NEC VersaBay III Swap Utility 24X CD-ROM Drive CD Read/Write Drive 8X DVD-ROM Drive Hard Disk Drive Memory Modules SuperDisk Drive The SuperDisk drive offers many improvements on the standard diskette drive technology, including faster data access, greater reliability, and higher recording capacities. The drive uses the latest laser-servo (LS) technology, which writes to and reads from specially designed 120-MB diskettes as well as standard 720-KB and 1. 44-MB diskettes. The SuperDisk drive offers the following features which are described after the figure. ! Emergency Eject Hole -- allows you to manually remove a disk from the SuperDisk drive if the eject function is disabled by software or a power failure. To remove a disk, insert the end of a paper clip into the eject hole and push in. Press this button when power is on to insert a SuperDisk into or remove a SuperDisk from the drive. Do not eject the SuperDisk or turn off the NEC Versa when the indicator is lit. ! Formatting Diskettes in the SuperDisk Drive When formatting a diskette in the SuperDisk drive while in DOS mode, you may encounter the following error messages: ! For 720-KB and 1. 44-MB diskettes the error message states "Invalid media or Track 0 bad ­ disk unusable, " "Extended Error 1g - format terminated. " For a 120-MB SuperDisk the error message states "Parameters not supported by drive. " ! When in DOS mode, the message text may vary. These error messages indicate that the diskette you are attempting to format is write-protected. Simply write-enable the diskette before formatting. NEC VersaBay III The NEC VersaBay III is the drive bay located on the right side of the system. Your NEC Versa ships with a 24X CD-ROM drive, CD read/write drive, SuperDisk drive, or 8X DVD-ROM drive installed in the bay. [. . . ] See nonvolatile memory. W warm boot Process of resetting the computer without turning off the power through keyboard input (pressing Ctrl, Alt, and Del keys simultaneously). 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. [. . . ]