Dell OptiPlex FX160 - Manual (Page 3)

Dell OptiPlex FX160 Re-Imaging Guide
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Dell™ OptiPlex™ FX160 Re-Imaging Guide
The Dell OptiPlex FX160 computer with an internal flash card hard drive is
preloaded with either a Microsoft
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Windows
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XP Embedded or SUSE
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Linux Enterprise Thin Client (SLETC) operating system. However, when
system updates are released, or special configurations are required, the
internal FX160 flash card or hard drive can be re-imaged.
Re-Imaging the FX160 Computer With Microsoft Windows
For the FX160 Windows XP Embedded operating system, updates are
provided on a bootable DVD. Booting the FX160 computer from the DVD
opens a utility that writes the FX160 flash card. Additional software, such as
drivers for a wireless card, are loaded separately.
The DVD update disk can be transferred to a bootable USB flash drive using a
Windows system with Microsoft Windows Automation Installation Kit
(WAIK) software. The update can then installed on the FX160 flash card
when booting the FX160 computer from the USB flash drive.
Re-Imaging an FX160 Computer With the Update DVD
CAUTION:
Re-imaging your FX160 computer will erase all data from the hard
drive or flash card. Back up your system to an external device before re-imaging
your computer.
1 Power off the FX160 computer.
2 Attach an external USB DVD reader drive to the FX160 computer.
3 Power on the FX160 computer. When the BIOS window options list
appears (in the upper right-corner of the screen) press <F12> to access
the Boot Device menu.
4 In the Boot Device selection window, use the arrow keys to highlight the
DVD drive you attached.
5 Insert the bootable Windows update DVD into the DVD reader and press
Enter. A Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) system will initialize.
6 To save the current FX160 system image, click the Capture System Image
button and follow the prompts to write the system image to an external
device. When the capture operation completes, the imaging tool window
reappears.