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Repairing the Operating System, Operating System Recovery CD

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Software Updates and Restorations Repairing the Operating System To repair the operating system without deleting your personal data: 1. Insert the Operating System Recovery CD (included with the notebook) into the optical drive. 2. Turn off the notebook using the standard Windows shutdown procedure. If the notebook is unresponsive: a. If the notebook is running Windows XP Professional, press ctrl+alt+del. Select Shut down from the drop-down list, and then select OK. b. If the notebook is running Windows XP Home or does not respond to ctrl+alt+del, press and hold the power button for 5 seconds. 3. Turn on the notebook by briefly pressing the power button. If the Operating System Recovery CD does not open after several minutes, the boot order settings on your notebook might have been changed from the default settings. For information about changing boot order settings, refer to the Boot Menu in the "Configuring Your Notebook" section in this chapter. 4. When prompted, press any key to boot from CD. (After a few minutes, the Welcome to Setup screen is displayed.) 5. Press enter to continue. (A Licensing Agreement screen is displayed.) 6. Press F8 to accept the agreement and continue. (The Setup window is displayed.) 7. Press R to repair the selected Windows installation. (The repair process begins.) After the repair process is complete, which might take a few hours, the notebook restarts in Windows. 4-14

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Software Updates and Restorations
Repairing the Operating System
To repair the operating system without deleting your
personal data:
1. Insert the
Operating System Recovery CD
(included with the
notebook) into the optical drive.
2. Turn off the notebook using the standard Windows shutdown
procedure. If the notebook is unresponsive:
a.
If the notebook is running Windows XP Professional,
press
ctrl+alt+del.
Select Shut down from the drop-down
list, and then select OK.
b.
If the notebook is running Windows XP Home or does
not respond to
ctrl+alt+del,
press and hold the power
button for 5 seconds.
3. Turn on the notebook by briefly pressing the power button.
If the
Operating System Recovery
CD
does not open after
several minutes, the boot order settings on your notebook
might have been changed from the default settings. For
information about changing boot order settings, refer to the
Boot Menu in the
“Configuring Your Notebook”
section in
this chapter.
4. When prompted, press any key to boot from CD. (After a
few minutes, the Welcome to Setup screen is displayed.)
5. Press
enter
to continue. (A Licensing Agreement screen is
displayed.)
6. Press
F8
to accept the agreement and continue. (The Setup
window is displayed.)
7. Press
R
to repair the selected Windows installation. (The
repair process begins.)
After the repair process is complete, which might take a
few hours, the notebook restarts in Windows.