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6. When a message appears, advising you that drivers will be installed, click “OK”.
7. When the drivers are installed, one or more messages might appear, advising you that these
drivers are not signed. This has no adverse effect on your system. Click “Continue Anyway”
or “Yes” on each message to proceed with the installation. In addition, the Found New
Hardware Wizard starts. Select “No, Not This Time” on the initial screen and complete the
rest of the wizard, accepting all the default values.
If remote boot was successfully enabled (as indicated in the Details area), a new backup is
created automatically.
Note: If remote boot was successfully enabled but for some reason the new
backup was not created (as indicated in the Details area), you must perform a
manual backup (as described in Section 4.2.7). You can remotely boot only from
backups that were performed after remote boot was enabled.
8. Click “Close”.
If no problems were encountered, you can now remotely boot from the storage system. If any
problems were encountered, take corrective action. For example, if you did not previously
protect a system disk or partition, do so now (as described in Section 4.2.6). Then repeat this
procedure for enabling remote boot until all parts of the process complete successfully.
Disabling Remote Boot
Disabling remote boot restarts your computer automatically. It is recommended that you save
and close any open files on your system before you do this.
To disable remote boot:
1. From the Action menu, click Disable Remote Boot. A progress bar appears, indicating the
progress of the process.
2. When the confirmation message appears, click “OK”. Your computer will restart
automatically.
Performing a Remote Boot
If your computer meets the necessary prerequisites listed below, you can remotely boot it from a
backup on your storage system and recover your system disk or partition. You can recover only
your most recent backup.
Note: If you replaced the original hard disk, the new disk must be at least as
large as the original disk.
In addition, the system to which you are recovering the data must be identical to
the original system. For example, if the original system had a particular type of
network adapter, the system to which you are recovering the data must have the
exact same type of network adapter. Otherwise, the recovered files will not
operate properly.
Before you can recover a disk while booting remotely, the following prerequisites must be met:
• The computer that you’re remotely booting must be in the same subnet as the storage
system.
• Remote boot must be enabled for that computer (as described in Enabling remote boot).
• At least one backup must have been performed after remote boot was enabled.