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Restoring Your Computer
If disaster has struck and your system software is damaged or
completely erased, this chapter provides you with step-by-step
instructions on how to restore your system.
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These steps will be successful only if you have backed up your
system using Retropsect.
What’s contained in a full system restore?
• Your current operating system
• Your applications
• Your personal files
• Your computer’s settings - including the registry (on Windows)
Before you begin. . .
Because of factors like processor type, motherboard, video display
card and other hardware that is specific to your brand and model of
computer, we urge you to only do a full system restore to the
same computer. Restoring your operating system, its applications
and settings to another computer with different hardware is not
supported and may cause significant problems with that computer.
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2 The Maxtor OneTouch II drive, in combination with the included Dantz Retrospect
Express software, supports a complete system restore capability (Operating
System, drivers, applications, settings and user files) back to the original computer
system (running the same operating system) that the backup copy was made from,
when performed according to the steps described in this chapter. If you need to
restore data to a different computer and / or a different operating system, this
product will only support the restoration of user files and does not support under
those circumstances restoration of the Operating System, drivers, applications or
settings.
Basic Guidelines
For your system restore to be successful, we recommend that
you restore your system only:
• To the same computer and same internal drive, or
• To the same computer and new internal drive
If you cannot restore to your original computer or an identical
system, you can restore all of your personal files to a different
computer. For more information, see www.maxtorkb.com.
Restoring Your Complete System
Macintosh OS 9
Before you begin, you must format your system hard drive and
install your operating system. If you had multiple partitions on your
hard drive(s), you must create and format the same number of disk
partitions. These partitions must be of equal or greater size to what
they were on your original system. For information on how to
partition and format your system drive, see the Maxtor
KnowledgeBase online at: www.maxtorkb.com.
Restoring your OS X system
For instructions on restoring your complete Macintosh OS X
system, see the Quick Start poster included with your
Maxtor OneTouch II drive.