Chapter 2
Installation and Configuration
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National Instruments Corporation
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Hard Drive Recovery
NI PXI-8105 controllers include two methods of restoring the original
factory condition of your hard drive. Hard drive-based recovery stores a
factory backup on a separate portion of your hard drive allowing you to
restore your controller without additional media. The NI PXI-8105
controller also ships with an OS Recovery CD that allows you to reinstall
your operating system onto your hard drive through an external CD-ROM.
For more information on these tools, refer to the documentation on your
hard drive in the
c:\Images\Recovery
directory or KnowledgeBase
2ZKC02OK at
ni.com/support
.
Note
Your system hot key is <F4>. To access the hard drive-based recovery tool, press and
hold <F4> when video first appears during the boot process.
If you need to recover your factory-installed operating system from a CD,
you can use the included OS re-installation CD with an external CD-ROM
drive such as a USB CD-ROM drive. Boot the PXI controller using the
OS re-installation CD to recover the OS. You also may need to reinstall
other software after using the CD to recover the OS.
Note
Recovering the OS erases the contents of your hard disk. Back up any files you want
to keep.
Installing an OS
NI PXI-8105 controllers include a pre-installed OS. In some cases, you
may want to install a different OS. When doing so, consider the following
guidelines.
Installing from a CD-ROM
The NI PXI-8105 supports the installation of Windows XP from a USB
CD-ROM. However, many other operating systems do not support
installation from a USB CD-ROM. For example, Windows 2000 aborts
during the install process because it does not have drivers for the CD-ROM
device.
With DOS drivers, you can install Windows 9
x
operating systems.
However, only a few USB CD-ROM drives have DOS drivers.
