How Do You Use System Recovery Disks?
When you first set up your computer, you dutifully made the system recovery disks and put them away for safekeeping. Now the time has come to use them. The computer refuses to boot, and all you get are error messages or the dreaded blue screen. You pull out your system recovery disks but don’t quite know what to do with them. Fortunately, it’s a process that even a beginner can complete. Insert the first system recovery disk into the optical drive. Restart the computer. When the screen prompts you to press any key to boot from CD, do so. This will begin the recovery process from the disk in the optical drive. Follow the onscreen prompts. Because every computer company has slight variations in how the recovery disks are formatted, you will need to follow the specific instructions for your system. You will be asked if you wish to complete a full recovery or a repair. Always choose repair first, because it doesn’t remove all of your files, and a full recovery will. Beyond that, your only
