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BOOTHELP.TX_
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You can do more than just restore data from tape when you
have booted your system with the NOVABOOT diskette. These
additional operations are available:
1. NOVABOOT /H or BOOTHELP - To view this text
pertaining to utility programs.
2. FDISK - In very rare instances it may be necessary to
repartition your hard disk. That is, there must exist a drive C:
in order to restore data to that drive! Therefore it would be
wise to run FDISK and write down your current settings
(partition sizes, etc.) in the event you need to restructure your
disk.
3. FORMAT - This is usually only necessary if you had to run
FDISK. In the example of formatting drive C:, use the
command, FORMAT C: /S
4. CHKDSK - To be sure a hard drive is healthy enough to
retain restored data, the CHKDSK command can be of help.
For example, to check drive C, use the 'CHKDSK C:'
command.
5. DELPATH - This is used by NovaBoot when removing its
temporary work directory. In some cases it may be used when
host drives (related to compressed disks) are unavailable to
receive tape data. If you wish, you can remove all files on a
hard disk with one DELPATH command. To do so, use the
command DELPATH drive:\
where drive: is the drive letter of the hard disk from which you
wish to remove all files.
One instance where you may wish to do this is if you know you
have a lot of files on your hard disk that you do not want, and
would like to remove all files prior to restoring data from tape.
Note that this can also be done using the FORMAT command
as shown above.
If you wished to remove one directory structure and all its
lower structure, DELPATH can be used for that too. For
example, if you wished ONLY to remove D:\OLD and all
directories underneath it, you could use the command,
DELPATH D:\OLD.
6. SYS - *** IF YOUR SYSTEM DOES NOT BOOT FROM HARD DISK ***
Boot again from the NovaBoot disk and use the command,
SYS C:
This may be necessary if:
a. You formatted your hard bootable hard disk but did not
use the /S switch with the format command.
b. You are using a hard disk manager such as ONTRACK and it
did a format without putting on system bootup files.