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There used to be an article posted in the averatec forum that explained how to burn a recovery DVD from the recovery partition. It provided some software to create a bootable CD that automatically created the DVD copy. Does anyone know where I can get that software? Unfortunately, that forum is no longer in service so I cannot retrieve that software from there. I think the link where it existed originally was:
http://www.averatecforums.com/showthread.php?t=2057
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hello All, This is the link to the forum:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache...ery&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
In case you are wondering how I got this just google "averatec slax recovery"
And instead of opening the page just click on cache, and that will give a copy of the page retrieved at a previous date (aka before the hard drive crash
) and thats how I can still read some of the old articles in there. All the links should be functional. About the slax program the only functional link is the Rapidshare one. I have used this method few days ago and it simple as turning on your PC. Just download the ISO image file, burn it onto a CD pop it in the CD drive in your Averatec and follow the simple instructions. I used it on my 2370 and it should work fine with other averatec lappys.
Disclamer: I did not write this fine article, and I do not take any credit for it. This article was copied and posted from www.averatecforums.com to benefit all members in this forum. Unfortunatly I did not take authorization from the original author newhren since I have no contact information about him, and I hope he doesnt mind Ohh one more thing use at your own risk.
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How I created a recovery DVD for averatec 3270
This simple bootable CD (slax-fwrecover CD) will create a Recovery DVD (or a set of Recovery CD(s)) from your "hidden" Phoenix Recovery Partition. It should work on any averatec model. Simply put, it extracts the harddisk images, used by Phoenix FirstWare Recover Pro 2004 (the software which you start by pressing F4 during the boot), and burns them on a DVD (or on several CD(s)). Even if you messed up your MBR and "F4 during boot" no longer works, slax-fwrecover CD will work as long as you didn't delete the "hidden" partition.
1) First you will need to download the iso image of slax-fwrecover and burn it. This step can be done on any computer, not necesserarily on your averatec machine.
* Download the file slax-fwrecover.iso (MD5SUM 79474fb5e905cdb1804911bbefa9a7d8 ) from http://rapidshare.com/files/5525118/slax-fwrecover.iso, or from http://www.sendspace.com/file/tp7wyi, or from http://www.f-forge.com?d=eGXL4ZcfWKOh0Bv3obHj. This file is about 54Mb.
* Download DeepBurner Free from http://www.deepburner.com/, it is about 3Mb.
* Install DeepBurner, and use it to burn slax-fwrecover.iso to any writable CD or DVD disk (if it is a re-writable disk, you may first need to erase, or "blank" it).
2) Now we are ready to make Recovery DVD/CD(s). Note that not a single bit will be written to your hard-disk, everything will be done in the memory. You may turn off your averatec machine at any time, and you will be fine.
* Insert slax-fwrecover CD you've just made into the drive and reboot your averatec machine. It will boot from this slax-fwrecover CD. It will take some time to copy the contents of the CD into the memory (2-3 minutes). Dont disturb the machine. Once it is done, it will eject the CD.
* If your Phoenix Partition is not corrupted, you will see a prompt asking if you want to burn a DVD or several CD(s). Obviously one DVD is better. But some Averatecs can't burn DVD's (e.g. av1020 and av1050). If you want a DVD, answer DVD, if you want a set of several CD's, answer CD (for most Averatecs it will be 3 CD's).
* Again, dont disturb the machine. Just insert the empty disk(s) when prompted. Burning time for one DVD or one CD is about 10 minutes. If you are burning several CD's, remember their order (write 1, 2, 3 ... on them with a permanent marker).
To recover, simply insert the Recovery DVD or the first Recovery CD into the tray and reboot the machine. It will erase all data on your harddrive (including the "hidden" partition), and will recover your Windows partition to the factory-shipped state. If you used a Recovery CD, sometime during the process you will be asked to insert the next CD's.
Note: If your CD-drive can't burn DVD's (e.g. if you have av1020 or av1050), and you've made Recovery CD's but would like to have a single Recovery DVD, then you can do so on another machine (with a DVD burner) as per described in http://averatecforums.com/showpost.php?p=29353.
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Technical details:
The only difference between slax-fwrecover.iso and the origianal file slax-frodo-5.1.6.iso (available at slax.org) is that the former contains an additional file modules/fwrecover.mo and has some changes in the start-up scripts as described in http://averatecforums.com/showpost.php?p=28880. The file fwrecover.mo is a squashfs-image of fwrecover.tgz. I have been very carefull to include into this file only free open-source software, which is either licensed under GNU GPL, or is just plain freeware. It contains a bootable FreeDOS floppy-image (with CD-ROM drivers and fdisk), a small utility fwfind which I wrote myself, and a bash-script fwrecover which does the job. The executable fwfind has been statically linked (that's why it is so big!), so you can use fwrecover.mo with any other version of Slax, and you can also use fwrecover.tgz with any other live Linux (it has to support loop-back devices and include DVD-writing utility growisofs and/or CD-writing utility cdrecord).
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I hope this helps.
Create Recovery DVD from Recovery Partition
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