Recovering your system, Recovering from your hard disk, Recovering using the recovery cds – BenQ Joybook 2000 Series User Manual

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Recovering Your System

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Recovering Your System

Before following any of the methods below to restore your system,

you should try to use Microsoft Windows XP System Restore tool to

restore under Windows. If you don't know where the System Restore

tool is, you can just insert the Recovery CD Disc 1 into the optical

drive under Windows, then Recovery CD will launch the Windows XP

System Restore tool automatically.
System recovery is a data destructive process. You should backup

all data and applications prior to restoring. Please make sure your

system is connected to AC Power before continuing.

Recovering From Your Hard

Disk

Your Joybook provides you with a quick recovery method from its

hard drive.
To recover using the quick recovery method:
1. Restart your Joybook.
2. During the restart process, press the F10 key when you see the

"<" symbol displayed on the upper-left part of the screen. The

system will then enter the Quick Recovery mode.

3. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the recovery

process.

Recovering Using the Recovery

CDs

You should receive a Recovery CD pack containing CDs that

you can use to rebuild your system. These Recovery CDs will

help you to restore the hard disk with the original content that

was installed when you purchased your Joybook. Follow the

steps below to rebuild your hard disk.

The Primary Partition (Drive C:) will be reformatted. The data files on

Extended Partition (Drive D:) will not be erased.

To recover your system using the recovery CDs:

1. When Joybook starts up, press the Esc key to enter the Boot

Menu during Power-On Self-Test (POST) while the BenQ Joy-

book logo is being displayed.

2. Insert the Recovery CD Disc 1 into the CD-ROM drive.
3. Select CD-ROM/DVD from Boot Menu and press the Enter key.
4. Then system will boot from CD-ROM and you will see the

Quick Restore screen.

5. When you finish the recovery process, remember to remove the

Recovery CD.

Reinstalling Software or Driver

To install/reinstall the software or driver that was installed when

you purchased your Joybook, you could find the source files on the

Recovery CD Disc 2.
After recovering your system using the Recovery CDs, please fol-

low the steps below to re-install the wireless LAN driver and utility

program.
1. Insert Recovery CD Disc 2 into the optical drive of your Joy-

book.

2. Click the Start button on Windows Taskbar and then select

Run....

3. According to the operating system of your Joybook, enter the

following path in the Run dialog that appears and then click

OK:

For Windows 2000:
E:\Drivers\Wlan\WIN2K\Driver\sinstall.exe
For Windows XP:
E:\Drivers\Wlan\WINXP\Driver\sinstall.exe

4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation

process. When done, restart your Joybook.

5. Click the Start button on Windows Taskbar and then select

Run....

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