User manual NEC VERSA DAYLITE E120

[. . . ] Versa E120 DayLite ® TM Notebook Computer User's Guide Proprietary Notice and Liability Disclaimer The information disclosed in this document, including all designs and related materials, is the valuable property of NEC Solutions (America), Inc. (hereinafter "NEC Solutions") and/or its licensors. NEC Solutions and/or its licensors, as appropriate, reserve all patent, copyright and other proprietary rights to this document, including all design, manufacturing, reproduction, use, and sales rights thereto, except to the extent said rights are expressly granted to others. The NEC Solutions product(s) discussed in this document are warranted in accordance with the terms of the Warranty Statement accompanying each product. [. . . ] The Product Recovery utility provides options that either remove or replace existing files, a process that may result in data loss. Before using the Product Recovery CD, enter the BIOS Setup utility, record any customized settings, and restore the BIOS default settings. Save the default settings before exiting the BIOS Setup utility. Guidelines for Using the Product Recovery CD Follow these guidelines when using the Product Recovery CD. T Use AC power. T Remove all optional hardware such as PC Cards, CF Cards, USB devices, and monitors. T Carefully review the Product Recovery CD options in the next section before proceeding. Using the Operating System and Utilities 4-11 Choose your restore option carefully to prevent losing data and applications installed on your system. Product Recovery CD Options The Product Recovery CD and utility provides you with Full Disk Drive and Partition Only restore options. Move the cursor over each option on the NEC Product Recovery utility screen to display a description of the option in the window at the right side of the screen. T Full Disk Drive -- Completely rebuilds your hard disk drive, destroying all existing data in the process. Select this option if you wish to restore your hard disk drive to its initial installation state. Note Use the Full Disk Drive restore option if your hard disk consists of one partition (drive). T Partition Only -- Lets you preserve your existing hard disk drive partition structure and allows you to format only the primary partition without affecting the extended partition(s). Partition Only formats drive C: (of a multiple partitioned drive) and restores drive C: to its initial installation state. To use the Partition Only option, drive C: must be equal to or greater than 1 GB. Additional partitions, for example, drives D:, E:, etc. , remain intact. Note Use the Partition Only restore option if your hard disk is partitioned into two or more partitions (drives). T Exit -- Exits the NEC Product Recovery utility. Full Disk Drive Restore If your preinstalled software becomes unusable and you cannot boot from the hard disk, use the Product Recovery utility to restore your system to its initial shipping configuration. The Full Disk Drive restore option erases the hard disk completely before reinstalling the files. The Full Disk Drive restore option deletes all files on the hard drive and replaces them with the original factory installed files. Only use the Full Disk Drive restore option if the preinstalled software is unusable. 4-12 Using the Operating System and Utilities Use the Product Recovery utility to perform a Full Disk Drive restore as follows. 1. 3. Check the Product Recovery CD title and make sure that it is the correct CD for your NEC Versa computer and operating system. Put CD1 into the CD-ROM drive tray, close the drive door, and reboot your system. Read the License Agreement screen that appears. Use the VersaGlide touchpad to position the cursor on the Accept button. You have the option of accepting or declining the agreement. If you decline the agreement, the recovery utility exits. 4. In the NEC Product Recovery utility screen, use the VersaGlide touchpad to choose Full Disk Drive to restore your hard disk drive to its original factory installed state. Choose your restore option carefully to prevent losing data and applications installed on your system. 5. Read the Warning screen. A warning displays indicating that your hard disk is about to be erased. 6. Select Continue to proceed to perform a Full Disk Drive restore. If you select Back, the recovery utility returns to the prior screen, which has an exit option. If you select Continue, an NEC screen loads. 7. At the NEC screen, click Continue to start the recovery process. A screen with progress bars is displayed and indicates the progress of the recovery. Do not turn off or disturb the system during the recovery process. If you are restoring the Windows 2000 operating system, the recovery program prompts you for the next CD. If you are restoring Windows 2000, remove CD1 at the prompt for the next CD and insert CD2 into the CD-ROM drive. [. . . ] These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures. T Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. [. . . ]