Acer Altos EasyStore - Enabling or Disabling Remote Boot

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Enabling or disabling remote boot
If you need to recover your system disk or partition, using the recovery CD is
recommended
(as described in “Recovering a system disk using the recovery CD”
). However , if your compu t er does no t support the recovery CD bu t does support
the PXE protocol, you can remotely boot your computer from a
backup on the storage system and then recover your system disk. (I f you’re not sure
if
your computer supports the PXE protocol, try to enable remote boot. If your
compu
t er does no t support the PXE protocol , an error message will appear during
this
process.)
Caution: It is strongly recommended that you determine whe t her or no t your
compu
t er supports t he recovery CD before a system failure occurs. To do this,
perform steps 1 through 3 in “Recovering a system disk using the recovery CD”
and use Diagnostic Mode to confirm that at least one network interface card is
supported .
If your computer does no t support the recovery CD, you must enable remote boot
before
a system failure occurs. Once your system has f ailed, you cannot enable
remote
boot.
If your computer does no t support either t he recovery CD or the PXE protocol ,
gather your hardware information (as described in step 3 in “Recovering a system
disk
using the recovery CD”) and send it to your vendor . You might
be able to obtain an updated recovery CD or a new driver that will make your
compu t er compatible with your existing recovery CD.
You can enable remote boot only if t he following criteria have been met:
l Windows was installed on the first partition of the f irst disk in your computer .
l DiskSafe Express was installed on that system disk.
l You protected your system disk or partition.
l You are accessing the computer directly rather than using Remote Desktop.
Notes:
l If DiskSafe Express was installed on t he same disk bu t a dif f erent partition
than
Windows, the entire system disk must be pro t ected rather than each
individual
partition. If you protected each partition individually , remove
pro
t ection for those partitions (as described in “Removing pro t ection”) and
protec t the entire disk (as described in “Protecting your disks”).
l You must wa it until the initial backup of your system disk or partition has
completed
before you enable remote boo t.