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Recovery Information for Windows Vista
®
only
NEC Recovery Program (from backup partition)
Your notebook is supplied with a backup partition on the hard disk drive which contains all the
data you may need in order to restore your configuration as it was when leaving the factory.
This partition occupies about 10 GB of your hard disk drive.
NOTE
This backup partition is hidden.
The NEC Recovery Program can restore your notebook to the same state as when you
purchased it, while giving you an option to retain all settings and personal data for later
retrieval.
Due to the wide range of reasons for which the NEC Recovery Program may be used,
no guarantee can be given that all data will be retained.
The procedure described below is only applicable if your backup data is stored on your
notebook’s hard disk. If you wish to restore your notebook using Recovery DVD, please refer
to notes below.
You are strongly recommended to create a set of Recovery DVDs for future use.
Be ready with 2 blank DVD-Rs. Please use the
MDVDCreator
tool. Click the
Start
button
,
click
All Programs,
then click
MDVDCreator
to launch the
MDVDCreator
program. It will then guide you through the process.
Before you run the
MDVDCreator
program, you need to disable the
UAC
(User Account
Control). To do this, click the
Start
button
, click
Control Panel
, select
User Accounts,
then click
Turn User Account Control on or off
. Then uncheck the “
Use User Account
Control (UAC) to help protect your computer
” box. Click
OK
.
CAUTION
Before using the NEC Recovery Program it is recommended that you FIRST try fixing
your computer with Windows Vista
®
System Restore.
System Restore can be used to restore your computer to a previous state when it was
known to function correctly, without affecting your personal data files (such as
documents, browsing history, drawings, favourites, or e-mails).
