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User’s Guide 25
Repair and Recover
Rescue Disk
Rescue Disk lets you create an emergency boot disk that you can use to boot up
your PC if you encounter a problem that prevents you from starting the
computer from the system hard drive. The system hard drive is the hard drive
that contains your Windows directory or folder. It now also supports Zip250
drives that enables you to create, system permitting, a Zip Rescue Disk and
boot with it
You can use the Rescue disk that is created by default.
A rescue disk is created via the Rescue Disk wizard. After the wizard window
is displayed:
1. Click the Next > button in the Rescue Disk Wizard.
2. Select the drive.
3. Click Next >; then select component.
4. Click Finish.
5. Insert the floppy or zip disk that you will use.
Rescue Disk formats the disk and copies critical startup files to it, as well as
any files you added. When the process is complete, Rescue Disk exits and
returns to the desktop.
Using a Rescue Disk
IMPORTANT: You can use a Rescue disk on a different system other
than the one that created it. But to examine your system properly using
a Rescue disk created by another system, you need to provide this
information via a prompt after your PC is rebooted.
Insert your Rescue disk into drive A, reboot your computer (or turn on the
power). If your system doesn’t boot, access the CMOS and make sure the
Booting From Floppy option is enabled.
On the following screen, the system will prompt you to indicate whether the
Rescue Disk you are using was created on a different system. Select either YES
or NO.
Select from the suceeding screens via the available tabs the options/features
you want to work on (e.g., Disk Minder, Image/Restore, SysRecover, etc).
The following topics below briefly discuss the available option tabs and how
it can work on your computer.