IBM Aptiva M30/M40/M50
(250-0441/12-10609/250-0440) Restoration Faxback Doc. # 17472
Notes on the Restoration of the IBM Aptiva M30/M40/M50
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When you first power on the system, you are asked to choose where the
computer will be used. Your choices are: Home, Office, School, or Store.
The first three choices are basically the same and will leave you with
about 480 meg free on the hard disk. If the MPEG software has been run it
will be about 463 meg free. If Store is chosen, you end up with about 400
meg free. A self running Aptiva demo is installed and runs automatically.
This accounts for the difference in free space. One you go to OS/2 for the
first time, you will have about 10 meg less free space, ending up at about
471 meg free when choosing Home, Office, or School.
In any of these situations, the full procedures for reinstalling the system
are the same.
STEP ONE - MAKING THE RECOVERY DISKETTES.
If the system is still running and operational, there are two ways to make
the recovery diskettes. From Windows, click on the REBOOT TO OS/2 WARP
icon. The computer will reboot to OS/2. When in OS/2, a window in the
center of the screen titled, First Steps Icon View, has an icon to Create
Recovery Diskettes. Click on this icon and follow the prompts for creating
three ( 3 ) recovery disks.
Another way to create the recovery disks is to boot with the IBM Aptiva
MPEG Bonus Pack diskette. You are given three choices after boot up:
I - Install MPEG Software
C - Create Aptiva Recovery Diskettes
D - Discontinue Installation & Restart your computer.
Choose "C" to create your recovery disks. You will be prompted for the
Multimedia Exploration CD.
Follow the prompts to create your three ( 3 ) recovery diskettes.
One last way that the recovery diskettes can be created is when you have
chosen "Store" for your initial startup, and you choose to Prepare This
System for Sale when you stop the self-running demo. At that time you are
prompted to make the recovery disks. Follow the prompts and make the three
( 3 ) disks.
NOTE: During this procedure, the Aptiva self-running demo may start.
Simply double click on the MS-DOS icon in the lower left corner of
the screen and continue making the disks. After the disks are
completed, a windows appears titled, APTIVA. In this window is an
explanation of how to prepare this system for sale. Below that
message, it lists the nine ( 9 ) steps to take to reinstall the
system. It suggests you write these down. After you click OK, it
prompts you to CTRL+ALT+ DELETE, or reboot your system, then follow
the steps for restoration. Detailed steps are outlined below.
NOTE: If you just reboot the system without performing the nine steps, it
simply goes back to Windows and runs the Aptiva Guide. The Aptiva
Guide is the "instructional information" that runs when the other
choices, (home, office, or school ) are chosen at startup. In the
Aptiva Guide, you can choose to load the Aptiva guide each time,
and also to choose Windows or OS/2 each time you start up.
RESTORING THE SYSTEM.
There are three ( 3 ) types of reinstallation you might do. A simple re-
copy to "redo" the files on the hard disk. A format and complete reinstall,
and finally an FDISK, FORMAT, and reinstall. The procedures start the same
for all three. Obviously they differ along the way.
Step one is to boot the computer with RECOVERY DISK #1. When the blue "IBM"
screen comes up, you are prompted to insert the RECOVERY DISK #2. After
continued booting , you will finally see the APTIVA / RECOVERY MENU. There
are six ( 6 ) choices.
1. Recover Aptiva OS/2 Warp Image
2. Recover Configuration Files
3. Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT
4. Edit CONFIG.SYS
5. Edit STARTUP.CMD
6. Go to OS/2 Warp Command Prompt
If the drive does not need to be formatted or partitioned, and you just
want to replace or overwrite all the original files, highlight choice
number one ( 1 ) and hit ENTER.
You will be prompted for the Multimedia Exploration CD, and also asked to
type in the letter of your CD-ROM drive, and hit ENTER. Usually this will
be D, unless you have added a second hard drive, then it will be E. You do
not need to press the colon. After entering your CD-ROM drive letter, you
will be asked if you want to continue. Press Y and hit ENTER. The ENTIRE
original image will be copied from the CD-ROM. IMPORTANT !! Be sure and
leave the RECOVERY DISK #2 in the drive. When the image is done copying,
you will be prompted to remove the disk and press any key to reboot. Once
the system is rebooted, you will see the message that the "First Boot"
program is configuring your system. The computer will again reboot and take
you to Windows, where you will be given the choice of how your system will
be used, as described above.
If the drive needs to be formatted.
Begin with the same procedure described above. However, instead of choosing
choice number one ( 1 ), choose instead choice number six ( 6 ) Go to OS/2
Warp Command Prompt. Once at the command prompt, [A:\], put in RECOVERY
DISK #3. Type in FORMAT C:. You cannot use the normal DOS, switches as
this is OS/2. Just type FORMAT C: and hit ENTER. You may be asked to type
in the volume label before you are allowed to continue. The default volume
label is MAIN FOLDER. Type it in and hit ENTER. If no volume label exists,
you will almost immediately be asked for a volume label, as the format
procedure only takes about two ( 2 ) seconds, unlike MS-DOS. You can leave
it empty, and just hit ENTER, or you can type in MAIN FOLDER. Again do not
be alarmed that formatting is almost immediate. When formatting is complete
and you again have the command prompt [A:\], take out the RECOVERY DISK #3
and insert the RECOVERY DISK #2. Then type EXIT. You will be back to the
APTIVA RECOVERY MENU, and can choose choice number one ( 1 ) as discussed
above.
If the drive needs to be partitioned.
Begin with booting the computer in the prescribed method. At the APTIVA
RECOVERY MENU, choose choice number six ( 6 ) just as you would for
formatting. At the command prompt [A:\], insert RECOVERY DISK #3. Type in
FDISK. You will see an FDISK menu. Note that it is different than the
Dos fdisk menu you may have seen because this is an OS/2 ver 3.0 operating
system. If a partition exists, it will be highlighted. Press ENTER, to
bring down the Options Menu. If a partition exists, Delete Partition will
be your only choice, highlight it and hit ENTER. If no partition exists, or
has been deleted, you can choose Install Boot Manager or Create partition.
Highlight create partition and hit ENTER.
A Size of Partition menu comes up with the 1037 in the box. Just hit ENTER
again. A Type of Partition menu comes up, choose Primary Partition, and hit
ENTER. You should now see that you have a Startable, Primary, unformatted
partition of 1037 mbytes. Press F3 to exit, and choose Save and Exit ( F3)
A red message box appears indicating that drive letters have changed and
that you need to reboot with CTRL-ALT-DEL. At this time, press those keys
to reboot your computer. What it WILL NOT tell you is that your RECOVERY
DISK #3 is still in the drive and you cannot boot from it. If you continue
to boot with this disk you will get the following in the upper left hand
corner.
OS/2 !! SYS01475
OS/2 !! SYS02027
Simply take out RECOVERY DISK #3 and insert RECOVERY DISK #1 and reboot the
computer. Again you will be prompted for the RECOVERY DISK #2 at the blue
IBM screen. The computer will continue booting to the APTIVA RECOVERY MENU.
Follow the installation steps above for formatting the drive
and reinstalling the software.
It is important to note, there is no way to do a partial installation or
create disks for the installed software.
Once installation is complete and you have booted back to Windows and
chosen you installation type, you must exit Windows and reboot with the IBM
Aptiva MPEG Bonus Pack diskette. When it boots up, choose the letter I for
MPEG Installation. You will be prompted for several CD's from the MPEG
Bonus Pack during this procedure. YOU WILL NOT HAVE MPEG CAPABILITES UNLESS
YOU PERFORM THIS STEP. In fact, the icon will not even appear in Windows
until after this is done. When complete, you will reboot back to Windows
with full MPEG capability.
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