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- ░ QUICK PREVIEW ░ - Recovery Disk
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- ░ Virus ALERT's Recovery disk works for all hard drive
- configurations including compressed, and works with all
- Dos operating systems from Dos 2.1 up, or equivalent.
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- Virus ALERT's Recovery disk comes in two flavours,
- a 'SAGA' 3000, and a 'TURBO' 2000.
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- ░░▐ █ SAGA 3000 █
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- The SAGE 3000 is a fully detailed, fully prompted,
- all nooks and crannies, complete, fail-safe version,
- designed both for non-technicians (to prevent miscues
- due to a general lack of understanding about Recovery
- Disks in general), and for technically adept users who
- need to have as much as possible about their computer's
- controls saved to a Rescue Disk.
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- The SAGA version also ends up as a full Dos BOOTup disk
- for your computer.
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- ░░▐ █ TURBO 2000 █
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- The TURBO 2000 on the other hand just records the basic
- computer CMOS, Boot Record, and Partition Table (MASTER
- BOOT RECORD) with very little prompting.
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- A Restore menu and a couple of small utilities are also
- copied to the Recovery Disk for restoring the records to
- the computer when needed.
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- ░ NOTE The TURBO 2000 version is adequate for any
- site situation in which a quick and simple
- basic Recovery Disk is sufficient, and/or
- where labour costs are a factor.
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- The TURBO 2000 is also suitable for quick re-does, such as if
- a new piece of hardware has just been added to your computer.
- BUT BE CAREFUL. You should not use the TURBO 2000 if you
- have just changed the DOS operating system and your Recovery
- Disk is a full Bootable version.
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- Use the SAGA version again to insure you end up with
- a proper BOOT disk for your new version of Dos.
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- Also please note that unless you are fairly technically
- adept and understand the nature of Recovery Disks in general,
- we strongly suggest you use the SAGA 3000 system instead of
- the TURBO 2000, at least when you make your first ALERT
- Recovery Disk.
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- ░ AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
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- Finally, the SAGA version automatically copies your current
- Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files to the Recovery Disk. The
- TURBO version does NOT. If wish to store copies of the two
- files on a TURBO version Recovery Disk, you will have to
- copy them to the disk manually.
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- ░ To make a Turbo 2000 Recovery Disk in a hurry,
- by-passing the introductory menus, at Dos type:
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- RECOVERY TURBO
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- ░ To use a TURBO version Recovery Disk, at Dos type:
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- RESTORE
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- ░░▐ █ MAKING A SAGA 3000 RECOVERY DISK █
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- The remainder of this Quick Preview deals with
- making of a full tilt SAGA 3000 Recovery disk.
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- ░ WHAT THE RECOVERY DISK IS FOR
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- A properly made RECOVERY disk contains the computer's
- CMOS, BOOT, and PARTITION table records, and lets you
- run the disk from the A:> drive to rewrite these
- values to your computer.
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- A reason you may need the recovery disk could be because
- a virus is in the hard drive boot sector, or a power glitch
- when you were away at the store has knocked out your CMOS
- records and you can't get into the hard drive, or some other
- glitch is suddenly making your system act erratically.
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- So consider a RECOVERY DISK your security blanket
- against a computer crash from any cause.
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- Please note that we do not save the hard drive
- FAT (file allocation tables) on the recovery disk
- because, if the computer is a busy one, the hard drive
- FAT can become out of date in a matter of hours.
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- ░ THE PROCEDURE FOR MAKING A RECOVERY DISK
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- Making a Recovery disk is actually only a hand held
- step by step procedure whereby a floppy drive Recovery
- disk is created. Nothing is installed on the computer,
- and the computer's records are not disturbed in any way.
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- The only end product is a floppy disk in the A: DRIVE,
- from which you can re-boot the computer and restore its
- systems records in the advent of a hard drive disaster
- which is not mechanical.
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- The Recovery disk option was designed with the least
- adept computer user in mind, meaning the resulting disk
- was tailored for trouble free use by all levels of user.
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- This makes it improbable that people who have little or
- no technical computer experience will make (and use) the
- Recovery Disk improperly, so there is minimal risk of
- creating any problem on the computer requiring
- a technician to fix.
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- ░ WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE MAKING PROCEDURE
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- Recovery disks, while being an amazing time saver for getting
- rid of hard drive boot viruses, or recovering from a hardware
- disaster, can be even more of a disaster if a wrong (or not
- current) recovery disk is used on the computer.
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- Therefore, experienced users please note, we have
- taken the long road, and presume the user is going to
- know very little about subtle technical things when
- making the disk. The procedure is therefore extremely
- cautious, just one step at a time.
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- ░░ PREPARATION
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- During the process you will be asked to format a proper disk
- for your A: Drive, using your computer to do it (i.e. using
- your current version of Dos), and using a proper sized floppy
- disk for the drive involved.
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- For example, even though the Recovery Disk will fit onto
- a 360K floppy disk, if your A: disk drive is 1.2M, then
- you are reminded to use a 1.2M floppy disk.
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- Similarly, a disk from a box of pre-formatted disks from
- a computer store won't do, since there is no way of telling
- which version of Dos actually formatted the disk.
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- You can start out with one, but follow our procedure
- to re-format it on your computer anyway. Once a properly
- formatted disk has been prepared, a menu option lets
- you transfer the key computer records to the prepared
- recovery disk.
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- If you have trouble with the Formatting stage of the
- process, either use the TURBO 2000, or bypass the
- formatting stge of the SAGA 3000 by starting over
- and typing at Dos:
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- RECOVER MAKE
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- ░░ FINISH
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- The procedure concludes by copying support material from
- Virus ALERT to the recovery disk, so you can use the disk
- to both reboot the computer, and then run 'restore' from
- the same drive immediately after with no additional fuss.
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- A complete list and description of the support files,
- plus more details about the Recovery Disk, plus comments
- for Network supervisors, are provided in a file called the
- 'RECOVERY.DOC', option (2) in the quick preview screen
- of the RECOVERY DISK Main menu.
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- ░ HOW TO USE THE RECOVERY DISK
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- Using the Recovery disk once one is made, is simple enough.
- If you re-boot your computer from the recovery disk, the boot
- will finish with the 'RESTORE' menu already on screen ready
- to go. Or at the Dos prompt, you can type:
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- RESTORE
- and follow the options on the 'Restore menu.
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- Note that the only small detail to worry about is that the
- Recovery disk on hand is still current for the computer.
- In other words, you have not bought a new hard drive, or
- made some other change in the meantime.
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- If you do change your computer's setup at any time, update
- the Recovery disk immediately.
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- If the Recovery disk cannot restore your hard drive (an
- unlikely but not impossible happenstance), the Repair.doc in
- the (second) Help menu screen discusses ways to recover the hard
- drive manually, including rebuilding the boot record by hand.
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- Some quick suggestions for site supervisors can be
- found under 'RECOVERY' in the Network.doc, in the
- Network menu, option (N) in the 'Utilities and Other
- Options' menu.
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- FINISHED press ESC to exit
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