Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery CD

The Linux/DOS Recovery CD can be used to boot your computer into Linux or PTS DOS to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes. On the disk you can also find the PTS DOS safe mode, which may help in a number of non-standard situations such as interfering hardware settings or serious problems on the hardware level. In this case, only basic files and drivers (such as hard disk drivers, a monitor driver, and a keyboard driver) will be loaded.

Startup Procedure

To start working with the Linux/DOS Recovery CD, please take the following steps:

 

  1. Insert the Linux/DOS Recovery CD into a CD/DVD drive;

  2. Reboot the computer;

  3. Launch a boot mode you need (Normal, Safe, Low-Graphics Safe) in the Boot menu.

 

By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period.

 

  1. Click on the required operation to start. Hints on the selected at the moment item will help you make the right choice;

  2. Consult the help system by pressing ALT+F1 to know more on the subject.

 

To automatically boot from the Recovery CD make sure the on-board BIOS is set up to boot from CD first.

Boot Menu

After you have inserted the Recovery CD into a CD/DVD drive and restarted the computer, the Boot menu appears.

 

 

The Boot menu contains the following commands:

 

q       Normal Mode. Boot into the Linux normal mode. This mode uses the full set of drivers (recommended).

q       Safe Mode. Boot into the PTS DOS mode. This mode can be used as an alternative of the Linux normal mode if it fails to work properly.

q       Low-Graphics Safe mode. Boot into the PTS DOS safe mode. In this case, only the minimal set of drivers will be included, like hard disk, monitor, and keyboard drivers. This mode has simple graphics and a simple menu.

q       Floppy Disk. Reboot the computer from a system floppy disk.

q       Hard Disk 0. Boot from the primary hard disk.

q       Find OS(s) on your hard disks. The program will scan hard disks of your computer to find any bootable operating system.

 

To move within the menu, please use the arrow keys of the computer keyboard.

 

To automatically boot from the Recovery CD make sure the on-board BIOS is set up to boot from CD first.

 

While working with the Recovery CD you might experience some inconvenience caused by possible video artifacts. It is just a result of changing video modes and in no way will affect the program functionality. If this is the case, please wait a bit and everything will be OK.

Normal Mode

When the Normal mode is selected, the Linux launch menu appears:

 

 

q       Drive Backup The term backup originates from the time when the best way to protect valuable information was to store it in form of archives on external media. It's become now a general notion to mean making duplications of data for protection purposes. (enables to copy and back up separate partitions or entire hard disks, carry out basic partitioning operations, etc.);

q       Simple Restore Wizard (allows restoring hard disks and partitions);

q       One Button Copy Wizard (helps to carry out such a technically complicated operation as cloning of hard disks just by pressing one button);

q       File Transfer Wizard (allows coping files/folders to another disk or a partition as well as recording them to CD/DVD);

q       Boot Corrector (helps to correct the Windows System Registry without Windows being loaded);

q       Network Configurator (enables to establish a network connection under Linux);

 

If you are going to use network resources, first launch the Network Configuration Wizard to establish a network connection.

 

q       Log Saver (helps to collect and send the necessary log files to the Technical Support)

q       View the mounted partitions (the list of all mounted partitions will be displayed);

 

Linux/DOS Recovery CD assigns drive letters to partitions the way it is done in DOS, i.e. one after another, primary partitions at first. Thus mounted partitions may have different drive letters from Windows.

 

q       Command Line (allows experienced users to execute any operation);

q       Reboot the computer;

q       Power off the computer.

 

To move within the menu, please use the arrow keys of the computer keyboard.

Safe Mode

When the Safe mode is selected, the PTS DOS launch menu appears. It has nearly the same functionality as for the Normal mode except the Network Configurator and Log Saver commands. Besides due to certain limitations of the PTS DOS environment, there is no possibility to burn CD/DVD disks.

Low Graphics Safe Mode

When the Low Graphics mode is selected, the PTS DOS launch menu appears. It has the same functionality and looks similar to the Safe mode but graphically simpler.