NEC VERSA LX - RESTORING THE 12 OR 18GB HARD DISK DRIVE Manual

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NEC Versa

LX and SX

Restoring the 12- or 18-GB Hard Disk

Drive

Use the information in this document only when the 12- or 18-GB hard disk drive needs to be

restored to the original configuration. The 12- and the 18-GB drive comes preinstalled from the

factory as a single 12- or 18-GB partition, respectively.

Note

The restore process creates two partitions, not a single partition as shipped from the

factory. If you want to create a single partition for your hard disk drive, you should run the

Partition Magic software after the restore process completes. Partition Magic can either be

downloaded from a URL address provided by NECC Customer Support, or installed from the

Application and Driver CD that ships with your system (not available on all CDs). See the section,

"Creating a Single Partition with Partition Magic."

This document provides instructions necessary to restore a 12- or 18-GB hard disk drive.

must have two partitions on your hard disk drive. Follow the instructions in this document to

create the two partitions.

Use only the Partition Restore option on the Product Recovery CD for restoring. Do not use the

Full or Express options.

Note

If you do not format each partition before using the Product Recovery CD, your NEC

Versa notebook computer may not function properly.

Note to Windows NT users: Use the Product Recovery CD and select the Full (F) option. This

option destroys all data on the hard drive. (The Partition option only restores the C: partition and

leaves the data on other partitions intact.) To ensure compatibility with other Microsoft

operating systems, this drive is formatted with FAT partitions allocating 8 gigabytes. Download

Partition Magic from the provided URL or install Partition Magic from the Application and

Driver CD to allocate the unused space using NTFS. Disk Administrator in the Administrative

Tools is another way to configure the unused space. Disk Administrator deletes the additional

logical drives and creates one large NTFS drive.

Note

To ensure that the hibernation or Save-to-File file is properly created and utilized when

needed, be sure that you have the appropriate BIOS levels installed on your system. For the

NEC Versa LX, use BIOS 45 or higher. For the NEC Versa LX with AGP, use BIOS 25 or higher.

For NEC Versa SX systems with Pentium II, use BIOS 47 or higher. The BIOS upgrades are

available by calling Customer Support at 1-800-632-4525 or by downloading from the NECC

website, www.nec-computers.com.

For the NEC Versa SX systems with Pentium MMX, enter BIOS Setup and disable Auto

Save-to-File in the Power Management settings.

Before you restore your system using the Product Recovery CD, you

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