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Using System Recovery Disks To Restore Your Workstation
USING SYSTEM RECOVERY DISKS TO RESTORE YOUR WORKSTATION
To better serve your future needs, Guy Graphics makes a custom recovery disk specifically for your workstation. This recovery disk allows you to return your workstation’s hard drive to the same settings and image it was when you first took it out of the box. That way, if any viruses or errors have corrupted your hard drive’s image, this will restore your boot drive to its original state.
Because this is a complete restore, any changes that have been made to the C:\ drive will be completely lost. It will have the image we created on the day it shipped out from our warehouse. We recommend that if you make large changes to your system, you make periodic back ups of your C:\ onto your own restore disks. So that as time progresses, you’ll have multiple choices on how far back you’d like to restore. Please refer to the section titled “Creating System Recovery Disks” for information on how to do this.
To Restore your Guy Graphics Workstation, you must place the Guy Graphics DVD labeled “BOOT DISK” that came with your system into your primary DVD drive and then reboot your workstation. (For older workstations, you don't need a separate boot disk. Your disks will all be labeled "System Recovery". Insert the disk marked "System Recovery Disk 1" and complete the instructions as directed.)
During start up, you will see a message that says “Boot From CD”.
For best results, we recommend pressing the space bar multiple times until the message “Press any Key to Boot from CD or DVD.” appears. This will insure that you don’t miss the narrow window to enable booting to CD. If you’ve pressed the key correctly, you will see the message “Starting PC DOS…”
After this message clears, the “Norton Ghost” System Recovery Software will launch. Your first window will be a general information window about Norton Ghost. In this software your mouse will not work. To navigate though Norton Ghost, you must use the Tab Key, the Arrow Keys, and your Enter Key.
In this first window, Press your “Enter” key to press the Ok button.
A new window will appear. If the disk in your drive is labeled "BOOT DISK", with this new window open eject your DVD labeled “BOOT DISK” and insert your Guy Graphics DVD labeled “System Recovery Disk 1”. If the disk in your Drive is already labeled "System Recovery Disk 1", don't eject anything and simply move on.
Using your arrow keys, select “Local” and press the right arrow key. Then select “Disk” and press the right arrow key. On your third menu window, use your down arrow key, select the option “From Image” and press your “Enter” key.
In the next window, you can hold down the “Shift Key” and press Tab to “Left-Tab.” Your cursor should then be highlighting the “A:Local Drive” option. Using your Down Arrow Key, select your DVD Drive and then press your “Enter” key.
If you’ve done everything correctly up to this point, you should see your DVD’s “Ghost CD/DVD Image” displayed. Press Enter.
This next window shows the available hard drives in your system. You want to choose your C:\ drive. “Drive 1” typically represents this. You can confirm that you’ve selected the correct drive by comparing disk sizes. Use your Tab key to highlight the OK button and then press Enter.
Norton then lets you change the size of the partition you’ll be restoring. Since you can only decrease the size of your partition, it is best to leave this number alone. Tab down to the OK button and press Enter.
The window you see will confirm that you want to proceed with completely erasing your C:\ Drive and restore your hard drive. Use your “Tab” key to highlight “Yes” and then press your “Enter” Key.
At this point, the disk restoration will begin. The progress indicator will move from 0% to 100%. Once at this point, the restore cannot be canceled without damaging the information on your hard drive. Depending on your number of restoration disks, Norton may ask you to eject the current DVD and insert another. Follow these instructions by inserting the disks in numerical order. When the restore is completed, your workstation will reboot and load into windows successfully.
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