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Using the product recovery CD-ROMs
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Only for Windows
®
2000 Professional: By default, your notebook file management system is FAT32. Only the
advanced recovery
allows you to
format your files using either
FAT32
or
NTFS
. You can change your FAT32 file system to NTFS at any time. However, make sure you fully understand
the concept of file management system under Windows
®
2000 before switching from FAT32 to another file management system. For more
information, carefully read the Windows
®
2000 documentation and/or ask your system or network administrator.
Only for Windows
®
2000 Professional: You can only convert from FAT32 to NTFS, but not from NTFS to FAT32.
Performing an advanced system recovery
To perform an advanced system recovery, proceed as follows:
1
Take the system recovery CD-ROM.
2
Turn on your computer (using AC power only) and insert the system recovery CD-ROM in the DVD-ROM
drive.
3
Shut down your computer.
4
Wait ten seconds.
5
Turn your computer back on.
6
On the first screen that appears, press
A (Advanced)
.
The system recovery CD screen appears, asking you what to do with the partitions on your hard disk.
At this stage you have 3 options available.
Recovering the system without changing partitions.
Recovering the system with modified partition sizes.
Aborting the recovery process.
