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Xpress Recovery Introduction
What is Xpress Recovery?
Xpress Recovery utility is an utility for backing up and restoring O.S. partition. If the hard drive
can not work properly, you can restore it to the original state.
1. It supports FAT16
、
BFAT32
、
NTFS Operation System .
2. It does not work when you install Boot Manager .
3. It must be used with IDE hard disk supporting HPA .
4. The first partition must be set as the boot partition. When the boot partition is backed up,
please do not change its size.
5. It must be connected to IDE1 Master .
1. System data and hard disk's reading/writing speed will affect backing up speed.
2. It is supported only by Intel 865 / 875 chipset based motherboard from Gigabyte.
How to use the Xpress Recovery
a. There are two ways to enter the Xpress Recovery utility:
1. Press F9 during powering on the computer . (see the below)
2. Please go to "Advanced BIOS" setting menu and set boot from CD-ROM , then save and exit the
BIOS menu . Later, when "CD-ROM:" appears at the bottom of the screen , press any key to enter
Xpress Recovery.
F9 For Xpress Recovery
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