Bios recovery, Partition utility, Installation – Intermec 6620 User Manual

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SECTION 3

6620 Recovery Procedures

6620 Hand-Held Computer Technical Reference

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BIOS Recovery

While it is rare, it is possible for the 6620 BIOS to become

corrupted. If this occurs, a loss of power while performing a

BIOS version update is the most likely cause. The 6620

Computer implements a BIOS Boot Block which allows the

system to recover from BIOS corruption in most cases.
To recover the BIOS, insert an Emergency BIOS Recovery

Floppy (provided by Intermec Technologies Corporation),

and power on the system. If the Boot Block is not cor-

rupted, but the rest of the BIOS is, the system sounds one

long beep and two short beeps. At this point, the system

scans the floppy drive for the recovery floppy. Once found,

the disk is read into memory. About a minute after disk ac-

cess stops, the system powers down. BIOS should now be

recovered.

Partition Utility

The 6620 Partition Utility replaces FDISK, Norton Disk

Editor, and PHDISK as a complete solution to create all

partitions necessary on a 6620 Computer for normal opera-

tion. Use it with the Automate Utility during the 6620 Re-

covery procedures. It is an MS-DOS application and must

be run in MS-DOS mode as low-level disk changes fail when

Windows 95 is running.

Installation

From the 6620 Toolkit installation, select the checkbox for

the Disk Tools. This copies the files necessary for the op-

eration of the Partition Utility.

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