Setup guide
Reinstalling the Windows Operating System
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6. Set the USB Drive to boot first. Navigate to the Boot tab > Hard Disk Drives > 1st Drive
and select “USB Kingston DataT.” The 2nd Drive setting changes to the “RAID: Intel
Vo l u m e .”
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Depending on the manufacturer of the USB flash drive, this USB selection in the BIOS might
change. The AS3000 includes a Kingston USB flash drive. This might not be the
manufacturer of the USB flash drive in future releases.
7. Press F10 to Exit and Save your changes.
The system continues to start from the USB flash drive.
Wait until two windows appear, click on the blue window and select one of the available
options:
- Recover only the OS partition.
- Recover the entire system disk.
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The product recovery program only lists the C: and D: partitions in the window but,
the C:, D:, and E: partitions are imaged. The image on the E: partition is removed.
- Exit without doing a recovery.
8. At the prompt, type the number of the operation you want to perform:
t If you type
1
or
2
, a warning screen opens, informing you that you are about to
recover the entire system disk. Continue with step 9.
t If you type
3
, the recovery quits to the Main menu. You need to type
3
again to get
to command window. Press
Ctrl+Alt+Delete
to quit in any of these windows.
9. A yellow screen appears type Y.
10. A red screen appears type Y.
The reimaging takes 20 to 30 minutes.
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Do not remove the USB flash drive while performing the product recovery. If you
remove the USB flash drive an error is displayed stating it cannot write the
Ghosterr.txt file. If the USB flash drive was removed, you cannot continue the process
by re-installing the USB flash drive. You would have to start the recovery process from
the beginning.
11. A gray screen prompts you to reboot. Type R, and quickly remove the USB flash drive
from the system.
Configure the operating system as described in the following section. The Apply
Computer Setup message is displayed for 3 to 5 minutes.