Product recovery program menu, Product, Recovery – IBM 8306 User Manual

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Product

Recovery

Program

menu

Type

8301,

8302,

8303,

8304,

8305,

8306,

8307,

8308,

8309,

8310,

8311,

8312,

8314,

and

8315

machines

have

recovery

and

diagnostics

programs

on

a

separate

hard

drive

partition.

The

Enhanced

Diagnostics

diskette

is

not

shipped

with

the

machine.

To

download

the

Diagnostics

program,

see

“Diagnostics

program

download”

on

page

26.

At

startup,

the

machine

displays

the

following

prompt:

To

start

the

Product

Recovery

Program,

press

F11

Attention:

Make

sure

all

data

is

backed

up

to

avoid

loss

when

the

Product

Recovery

program

is

used.

After

depressing

F11,

you

are

given

the

following

options.

v

Factory

Contents

This

utility

reformats

the

hard

drive

and

restores

all

original

files.

v

System

utilities

1.

Repair

(Windows

NT

4.0

and

2000

Only)

This

runs

the

Windows

NT

4.0

emergency

repair

utility.

2.

Run

Diagnostics

Runs

the

IBM

Enhanced

Diagnostic

Program.

3.

Create

a

Diagnostics

Diskette

Creates

a

bootable

diagnostic

diskette.

4.

System

Information

Displays

information

about

your

computer

configuration

and

allows

the

user

to

gather

system

information

that

would

be

needed

during

a

Help

Center

call.

5.

Create

Recovery/Repair

Diskette

(Disk

to

Disk

Solution

Only)

Creates

a

startable

diskette

to

restore

access

to

the

IBM

Product

Recovery

program

on

the

hard

disk.

6.

Recovery

CD

In

the

event

of

a

Hard

Disk

Drive

failure,

a

Recovery

CD

can

be

used

to

restore

the

Hard

Disk

Drive

to

the

original

factory

preset.

Be

sure

to

use

the

Recovery

CD

FRU

list

to

obtain

the

proper

recovery

CD

for

the

computer

model

you

are

servicing.

Chapter

4.

Diagnostics

25

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