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Creating an image of the hard drive

The procedure for creating and delivering an image of the hard drive with an HPAbased
system is different than the procedure for creating and delivering an image of the
hard disk with a hidden partition.

To create an image of a hard disk using an HPA-based system, you must complete the
following procedure using IBM-supplied tools and a third party disk-imaging tool, such
as Phoenix ImageCast, PowerQuest DriveImage, or Symantec Ghost.

1. Ensure that the Access IBM Predesktop Area security level is set to Normal. This is the IBM default setting.

2. Copy the FWBACKUP and FWRESTOR tools from the factory recovery area in the HPA using the following procedure:

a. Start the system and press the Enter key or the Access IBM button during startup.
b. Double-click the Recover to Factory Contents icon. The Recovery Menu is displayed.
c. Press the F3 key. A command prompt is displayed.
d. Change to the A: drive. (This is a virtual diskette drive in the hidden protected area.)
e. Change to the recovery directory. The command prompt displays A:\RECOVERY>
f. Insert a diskette into the diskette drive, which is mapped as the B: drive.
g. Type copy fwbackup.exe b:
h. Type copy fwrestor.exe b:
i. Eject the disk and turn the system off.
j. Follow the directions below for using FWBACKUP and FWRESTOR.

3. Create an image of the hidden protected area using a command prompt to run the FWBACKUP tool.

FWBACKUP has the following format:
FWBACKUP size= file=

If you are creating an image of the HPA to a network drive, it must have a drive letter assigned. For example, if you want to store an image of the HPA space to drive D: that is of span size 640MB, the command is FWBACKUP size=640 file=d:\IMGSET

The image set consists of files IMGSET.001…IMGSET.nnn.

4. Create an image of the main partition using a third party imaging tool to capture first the C: partition, and then the main partition.

步驟:
1. IBM BIOS內,先確認Access IBM Predesktop Area安全設定為NORMAL.
2. 將FWBACKUP.EXE及FWRESTOR.EXE這兩個檔複至任何場所,像
是光碟或硬碟或磁片上.
(請在IBM系統回復程式出現後按"F3"鍵進入命令提示字元下切換至A:\RECOVERY\內即可找到這兩個檔案)
3. 利用磁片或光碟開機進入DOS(亦可進入網路環境,像是NOVELL NETWARE)
4. 執行FWBACKUP.EXE做HPA備份與FWRESTOR.EXE做HPA還原.

語法:

備份:
FWBACKUP.EXE SIZE=640 FILE=D:\Backup\T41HPA(舉例)

復原:
FWRESTOR.EXE FILE=D:\Backup\T41HPA(舉例)

以上各位便可以將IBM硬碟上HPA分割區內的資料備份出來.記得在換硬碟後重新按ACCESS IBM鈕一次,重新做RECOVER一次後系統才會建立好.