Acer Altos EasyStore User Manual

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Altos easyStore ManualChapter 5 Protecting Local Disks123Enabling or disabling remote bootIf you need to recover your system disk or partition, using the recovery CD isrecommended (as described in “Recovering a system disk using the recovery CD”). However, if your comput er does not support the recovery CD bu t does supportthe PXE protocol, you can remotely boot your computer from abackup on the storage system and then recover your system disk. (If you’re not sureif your computer supports the PXE protocol, try to enable remote boot. If yourcomput er does not support the PXE protocol, an error message will appear duringthis process.)Caution: It is strongly recommended that you determine whet her or no t yourcomput er supports the 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 issupported.If your computer does not support the recovery CD, you must enable remote bootbefore a system failure occurs. Once your system has failed, you cannot enableremote boot.If your computer does not support either the recovery CD or the PXE protocol,gather your hardware information (as described in step 3 in “Recovering a systemdisk using the recovery CD”) and send it to your vendor. You mightbe able to obtain an updated recovery CD or a new driver that will make yourcomput er compatible with your existing recovery CD.You can enable remote boot only if the following criteria have been met:l Windows was installed on the first partition of the first 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 the same disk bu t a diff erent partitionthan Windows, the entire system disk must be prot ected rather than eachindividual partition. If you protected each partition individually, removeprot ection for those partitions (as described in “Removing prot ection”) andprotec t the entire disk (as described in “Protecting your disks”).l You must wait until the initial backup of your system disk or partition hascompleted before you enable remote boot.