Altos easyStore Manual
Chapter 5
Protecting Local Disks
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If no supported NIC is found, you can gather information about your computer
and send it to Technical Support to see if an updated recovery CD or an
appropriate driver is available. To do this, select
Save
, insert a formatted floppy
disk or USB disk into your computer, and select the appropriate option (
Save to
Floppy Disk
or
Save to USB Disk
). Once the file has been saved to the
specified location, you can send it to Technical Support. Then select
Finish
and
select
Yes
to restart your computer. At this point, you have 10 seconds to
remove the recovery CD from your CD-ROM drive and boot from your local disk
once more. Otherwise, your computer will boot from the recovery CD again.
4. When the hardware list displays, take the desired action:
To do this
Do this
Proceed with recovering data Select
Next
.
You can select
Next
only if at least one supported NIC
is listed.
Load a new recovery driver
Select
Load Driver
, select the location from which you
want to install the driver (
Load From System
for the
local hard disk,
Load From Floppy Disk
for a floppy
disk,
Load From CD
for a CD, or
Load From USB
Disk
for a USB disk), insert the disk (if loading from a
floppy disk, CD, or USB disk), and respond to the
prompts.
See a complete list of the
detected hardware
Select
Diagnostic Mode
.
When you are done viewing the list, select
Normal
Mode
.
5. Review the network settings for your NIC and select
Next
.
The recovery CD obtains the IP address to use from your DHCP server. If the
displayed settings are not the ones you want to use, or if no IP address is
displayed, select the NIC in the list, select
Config
, specify the desired IP
address, subnet mask, and default gateway, and select
OK
.
If multiple NICs are listed, the recovery CD will use the last operational one (that
is, the last NIC whose
Status
is
Enabled
). If you do not want to use the last
listed NIC, select that NIC, select
Config
, and then select
Disable
to change the
Status
to
Disabled
. Repeat this procedure for each NIC that you do not want to
use. Then select
Next
.
6. In the
Computer Name
field, enter the full computer name of this computer.
If you don’t remember the full computer name, access the Manager (as
described in
“Accessing the Manager”
) and click
Backups
in the
navigation bar. In the
Protected disks
group box, the
Computer Name
column
lists the computer name of each computer that has backed up disks to the
storage system.
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