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T r o u b l e s h o o t i n g

Restoring Your
Pre-installed Software

The Drivers and Applications Restore (DAR) CD
contains:

■

Sets of device drivers and Fujitsu utilities (in specific
directories) that are unique to your LifeBook note-
book configuration for use as documented below.

■

A link to the Drive Image Special Edition (DISE)
utility on your hard disk drive.

■

Read-me files that provide additional use information
for items on this CD-ROM.

DRIVE IMAGE SPECIAL EDITION (DISE)

PowerQuest Drive Image Special Edition (DISE)
provides a way to restore your computer if you experi-
ence a hard disk crash or other system failure. Fujitsu has
used DISE to create an image of everything installed on
the computer at the time you purchased it. The image is
saved on a separate partition on the hard disk. You can
use DISE to restore the factory image and return your
computer to the state in which it was shipped from
Fujitsu.

Although it is not necessary, you can use DISE to store
additional image files that you create. For example, if
you install several applications and save data files on
your hard disk, you can create a new image file that
includes them and then save that image file on the hard

disk. Then, in the event of a hard disk failure, you can
restore the image that includes the applications and data
files you use.

Creating a Backup Image

You can create a backup image of your C:\ drive at any
time. The C:\ partition must be a FAT, FAT32, or NTFS
partition, and it must be directly before the backup
partition on your hard disk.

There are two ways to implement the DISE utility: When
booting up the system, or from the desktop.

Creating a backup image when booting up

Before creating a backup image at boot-up, you must
first change the boot-up priority in the BIOS so that the
system will go to the CD drive first, rather than trying to
boot-up from the hard drive or an external floppy disk
drive.

To change the boot-up priority:

1. Start your system and press the [F2] key when the

Fujitsu logo appears. You will enter the BIOS Setup
Utility.

2. Using the arrow keys, go to the Boot menu.

3. Arrow down to the Boot Device Priority submenu

and press [Enter].

4. Arrow down to the CD-ROM drive in the list, and

press the space bar (or the + key) to move the CD-
ROM drive to the top of the list. (The system
attempts to boot from the devices in the order in
which they are listed.)

5. Press [F10], then click on [Yes] to exit the BIOS

Setup Utility and return to the boot process.

After you have changed the boot priority, you can create
a backup image when you are booting up:

1. Install the DAR CD in the drive prior to booting up.

When bootup begins, a message will appear
informing you that continuing to boot from the CD
will overwrite all information on the hard drive,
including saved files, and restore the hard drive to its
factory configuration.

2. When you are asked if you want to restore the

factory image, click

[Y]es

Creating a backup image from the desktop

To create a backup image from the desktop, select Drive
Image SE from the Program list. You will initially be
prompted to create a backup diskette. It is not necessary
to create the backup diskette, since the DAR CD
performs the same function.

If your system was delivered with
Windows 2000 as the operating system,
the Windows 2000 image is on the D:
partition, but the Restore Disc contains
Windows XP. If you decide to restore your
system from the Restore Disc, you will
overwrite Windows 2000 with the
Windows XP operating system.

If the DAR CD is in the drive when you
boot up the system, a message will appear
telling you that continuing to boot from
the CD will overwrite all information on
the hard drive, including saved files, and
restore the drive to factory configuration.
If you wish to install drivers or applications
only from the CD, remove the disk from
the drive, reboot the system, and insert the
CD after Windows has started.

If you have access to the internet, visit the
Fujitsu Support web site at us.fujitsu.com/
computers to check for the most current
information, drivers and hints on how to
perform recovery and system updates.

Using the DISE feature will reduce the
amount of usable disk space on your hard
disk drive.

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