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- Restoring Your System Image and Software
Restoring Your System Image and Software
It is very important that you create DVD copies of your Factory Image and Bootable Disc (along
with other applicable media such as Drivers and Applications and Restore media and application
discs) before beginning to use your system. To do so, follow the instructions in the “Saving Your
Factory Image” and “Creating Backup Images of Factory Image, DAR, and Discs” sections of this
chapter.
Saving and Recovering Your Factory and System Images
Along with instructions on saving your Factory Image, this document outlines several other important
procedures, such as making a system image, restoring your Factory Image and system images, managing
your images, and restoring the partitions on a hard drive.
• IN ORDER TO INSTALL APPLICATIONS AND DRIVERS, MAKE COPIES OF FACTORY AND SYSTEM
IMAGES, AND BURN DARS, APPLICATION MEDIA, AND BOOTABLE DISCS YOU MUST HAVE AN
INTERNAL OR EXTERNALLY CONNECTED WRITABLE DVD DRIVE.
• IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU COPY YOUR FACTORY IMAGE TO REMOVABLE MEDIA (E.G.,
DVD
DISCS). FAILURE TO DO SO COULD RESULT IN AN INABILITY TO RESTORE THE IMAGE AT A
FUTURE DATE.
• WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE DVD-R OR DVD+R DISCS FOR YOUR BACKUP, BUT SUPPORTED
MEDIA* FOR IMAGE BACKUPS INCLUDE:
F
OR FACTORY IMAGE, DAR, APPLICATION DATA, AND BOOTABLE DISC: DVD-R/+R.
F
OR USER-CREATED BACKUP IMAGE: DVD-R/+R, DVD-RW/+RW, DVD-DL.
* D
EPENDING UPON YOUR OPTICAL DRIVE AND MEDIA FORMAT USED, SOME MEDIA TYPES MAY BE
INCOMPATIBLE FOR CREATING IMAGE BACKUPS.
DUE TO CERTAIN LICENSING REQUIREMENTS, SOME THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS WILL NEED TO BE
INSTALLED SEPARATELY USING THE APPLICATION MEDIA BUNDLED WITH YOUR SYSTEM.
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