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Using the Operating System and Utilities 4-17
Product Recovery CD Options
The Product Recovery CD and utility provides you with a number of choices. Move the
cursor over each selection on the NEC Product Recovery utility screen to display a
description of the selection in the window at the right side of the screen.
Restore System — Select this option if you wish to restore your hard disk drive to
its initial installation state. Restore System allows you to restore your system in one
of the following ways.
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Full Disk Drive
Completely rebuilds your hard disk drive, destroying all existing data in the
process.
Note
Use the Full Disk Drive restore option if your hard disk consists of one
partition (drive).
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Partition Only
Lets you preserve your existing hard disk drive partition structure and format
only the primary partition without affecting the extended partition(s). Partition
Only formats drive C: (of a multiple partitioned drive) and restores drive C: to
its initial installation state. To use the Partition Only option, drive C: must be
equal to or greater than 1 GB. Additional partitions, for example, drives D:, E:,
etc., remain intact. For important information about partitioning your hard disk
drive, see the section, “PartitionMagic Special Edition,” earlier in this chapter.
Note
Use the Partition Only restore option if your hard disk is partitioned into two or
more partitions (drives).
Exit — Exits the NEC Product Recovery utility.
Full Disk Drive Restore
If your preinstalled software becomes unusable and you cannot boot from the hard disk,
use the Product Recovery utility to restore your system to its initial shipping
configuration. The Full Disk Drive restore option erases the hard disk completely
before reinstalling the files.
The Full Disk Drive restore option deletes
all
files on the hard
drive and replaces them with the original factory installed files.
Only use the Full Disk Drive restore option if the preinstalled software is unusable.