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    Factory Restore DVD for the 2200

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by Skwerlly, Oct 4, 2010.

  1. Skwerlly

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    I recently needed to restore the operating system after a Linux install. Of course, this wipes the hard drive clean, and deletes the recovery partition. So I order a $20 DVD from Averatec. I have used this DVD before with the internal DVD-Rom drive and it restored things perfectly.

    Well, recently the internal DVD-Rom drive died. Cleaning the lens doesn't remedy this. So, I purchased a USB DVD Drive. Upon trying to restore from the USB DVD-Rom drive, the DVD will boot and get the base system loaded into memoy (Phoenix ImageCast client, MSCDEX CD Rom driver) The only problem is, the CD driver it loads is an oakcdrom.sys, which only covers ide. The drive "W:" which should have the iso mounted, gives the error "CDROM101 Not Ready reading Drive W"

    Ok, so I had the bright idea to copy the files from the iso partition (D:\data\2200HCR3.IMC, etc) to a thumb drive (which shows up as C: when dropping to command prompt after booting from the recovery DVD.

    Attempting to copy these files with DOS copy caused it to only copy a text file with a copyright message. I was able to copy them successfully using windows file manager.

    I booted back up, exited at the first prompt, used the commandline in Autoexec.bat which starts the Imagecast client, only pointing the src to the thumb drive. This cures the problem of the bad CD Rom driver. The Imagecast client starts to decompress the files, but then after about 30 minutes and 35% completion gives a "Decompression error" It's unable to read past the first file.

    I don't know if there is some kind of failure during copying, or needs something from the actual ISO that cannot be simply copied onto a flash drive.

    They didn't plan ahead too far with this. Apparently the only way to get around this is to replace the internal IDE DVD Rom drive, or find a way to unload MSCDEX and restart it with the proper USB drivers. If anyone has any suggestions on what I could try to get this Restore DVD to work from a USB DVD Rom drive, please let me know.

    For those of you who are contemplating using an Averatec Recovery DVD from a USB drive, be advised that it WILL NOT WORK. It must be used from a standard internal IDE drive. (a fact that they failed to mention when selling me this DVD)
     
    Skwerlly, Oct 4, 2010
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