Administrator's Guide

To create a system recovery USB flash drive:
1. Obtain a blank 4 GB or larger USB flash drive.
2. Insert the USB flash device into your workstation or laptop.
3. Open an elevated command prompt with Administrator privileges.
4. At the command prompt, enter diskpart.
5. At the diskpart prompt, enter list disk.
6. Identify the disk number that corresponds to the flash drive. This is typically the last disk listed.
7. Enter sel disk <USB drive number> (for example, sel disk 4).
8. Enter clean. This deletes everything from the USB flash device, so ensure that you have the
proper disk selected.
9. Enter create par primary.
10. Enter sel par 1.
11. Enter format fs=fat32 quick.
NOTE: If your USB flash drive does not support the FAT32 file system, format the drive as
NTFS instead. Omitting the quick parameter lengthens the format time considerably.
12. Enter active to mark the partition as active.
13. Enter assign letter=<drive letter> to assign a drive letter to the USB drive (for
example, assign letter=U).
14. Enter exit to quit diskpart context commands.
15. Insert the System Recovery DVD into the computer.
16. Using Windows Explorer or a comparable utility, open the DVD so that all contents are visible,
including hidden and system files.
17. Select all of the files (including bootmgr) on the DVD.
18. Copy all of the selected files to the root of the USB flash drive.
Managing disks after a system restoration
When you restore a system using the System Recovery DVD, the E5000 Configuration Wizard
automatically runs and detects the existence of the data volumes (volumes managed by the 1210m
controller).
IMPORTANT: You must stop the wizard and perform the following steps before allowing the
wizard to complete:
1. Reset the computer account in Active Directory, which enables the computer to be rejoined.
Do not delete the object.
2. Open the Registry Editor and add the following registry key if it is not already present:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hewlett-Packard\HP Configuration
Wizard
3. Add the following entries to the HP Configuration Wizard key:
- DWORD (32-bit) named DomainJoined and change the Hex value to 1.
- DWORD (32-bit) named ComputerNamed and change the Hex value to 1.
4. Manually rename the computer to the original computer name and rejoin it to the domain.
Reboot the computer as prompted. When the computer has rebooted, the E5000 Configuration
Wizard should automatically run.
The wizard remounts the data volumes as appropriate using the mount points in the C:\
ExchangeDatabases directory. For example, the following mount points might be found:
• C:\ExchangeDatabases\Recovery
• C:\ExchangeDatabases\VOL1
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