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Setting Up Your Notebook Computer
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If you entered several user names during step 8, the Welcome screen will be dis-
played with on the left side “To begin, click your user name”, and on the right
side the different users with, for each one, a different icon besides.
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When you click your user name, the other users disappear, and Welcome is dis-
played in front of your user name.
Booting for the Second Time: the NEC Recovery Menu
The following section contains detailed instructions needed to set up your NEC
Recovery Process. We advise you to select your recovery process as soon as you reboot
your system for the first time.
Note: if applicable, you should disable your anti-virus program before using the
NEC Recovery Menu.
You can access the NEC Recovery Menu by clicking the Start button, selecting Pro-
grams/All Programs
, then Tools and clicking NEC Recovery Menu.
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First you should read carefully the Selecting Your Recovery Process chapter (page 6)
and set up your NEC Recovery Process.
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Later, if you ever need to either restore your system to its initial installation state or
to reinstall software or hardware components, follow the instructions provided in
the relevant chapters in this guide, ‘Using the Recovery Program’ on page 19, and
‘Smart Restore’ on page 23.
Selecting Your Recovery Process
Your computer is supplied with a Backup Partition on the hard disk drive which con-
tains all data you may need in order to restore your configuration as it was when
leaving the factory. This partition occupies about 1.5 to 2 GB of your hard disk drive.
CAUTION: this backup partition is hidden, but can be tempered with using
the Disk Management utility. Do NOT erase the partition with this utility.
The NEC Recovery Menu allows you to choose the way you will restore your system
and to create the necessary tools.
This menu presents four options:
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Leave your system as it is, with the backup partition on the hard disk drive
(Default).
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Transfer the contents of the backup partition to a self-made recovery CD (this
option requires a drive featuring CD-R writing capability installed on your sys-
tem), allowing you to restore your system from a CD.
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