Product

Kodak^® Magnus™ 800 platesetter

Operating system

Microsoft^® Windows^® XP

Background

This procedure describes how to use the Ghost Backup and Restore Utility on a Magnus 800 platesetter.
The utility can be used to back up and restore the Magnus 800 computer’s C drive, or alternatively the computer’s entire hard disk, including the customer’s jobs and files.

The Magnus 800 computer hard disk is divided into two drives:

• Drive C: Contains Windows operating system
• Drive D: Contains temporary files

Important: You should back up all two drives so that you can restore them if a problem occurs.

Requirements

Backup & Restore DVD (651-00623A)

Procedure

Backing up and restoring drive C

If Windows crashes, restore only drive C. You need not restore the entire disk.

To back up drive C:

1. Insert the Backup & Restore DVD into the Magnus 800 computer’s DVD/CD drive.
2. Quit the Magnus 800 Controller software and restart the Magnus 800 computer. The utility boots up along with the computer.
3. In the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to select System Backup & Restore Tools, press 1.
4. When the prompt Are you sure? appears, press Y to confirm.
5. When the Place a DVD media in the DVD drive message appears, insert a blank DVD into the computer’s DVD/CD drive and wait until the LED in the DVD/CD drive stops blinking.
   
6. When the DVD/CD drive LED is off, press any key to continue.
   A window appears that shows the progress of the DVD/CD burning process.
   Wait until the C drive is backed up.
7. When the backup process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
8. Remove the DVD/CD from the DVD/CD drive and restart the Magnus 800 computer.

To restore drive C:

1. Insert the Backup & Restore DVD into the Magnus 800 computer’s DVD/CD drive.
2. Quit the Magnus 800 Controller software and restart the Magnus 800 computer. The utility boots up along with the computer.
3. On the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to select restore, press 3.
4. When the following message appears, press Y to confirm.
   Warning !!!
This process will erase all data on your system partition (C).
Are you sure?
5. A message appears asking you to insert the DVD/CD. Insert the DVD/CD on which you copied the C drive, and wait until the LED in the DVD/CD drive stops blinking.
6. Press any key to continue.
   A window appears displaying the progress of the restore process.
7. When the Restore process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
8. Remove the DVD/CD from the DVD/CD drive.
9. Restart the Magnus 800 computer and verify that the C drive is restored.

Backing up and restoring the entire disk

To back up the entire disk:

1. Insert the Backup & Restore DVD into the Magnus 800 computer’s DVD/CD drive.
2. Quit the Magnus 800 Controller software and restart the Magnus 800 computer. The utility boots up along with the computer.
3. On the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to back up the entire disk, press 2.
4. When the prompt Are you sure? appears, press Y to confirm.
   Note: If the License Agreement Warning dialog box appears, select OK.
5. When the Place a DVD media in the DVD drive message appears, insert the DVD/CD and wait until the LED on the DVD/CD drive stops blinking.
6. Press any key to continue.
   A window appears that shows the progress of the DVD/CD burning process.
   Wait while the entire disk is backed up.
   Note: You may need more than one DVD/CD to contain the copy of the entire disk. In this case, the software prompts you to insert another DVD/CD. Make sure to number the DVDs/CDs to indicate the order in which you burn them.
7. When the backup process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
8. Remove the DVD/CD from the DVD/CD drive.
9. Restart the Magnus 800 computer.

To restore the entire disk:

1. Insert the Backup & Restore DVD into the Magnus 800 computer’s DVD/CD drive.
2. Quit the Magnus 800 Controller software and restart the Magnus 800 computer. The utility boots up along with the computer.
3. In the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to select Restore, press 4.
4. When the following message appears, press Y to confirm.
   Warning !!!
This process will erase all data on your ...
Are you sure?
5. A message appears asking you to insert the DVD/CD. Remove the Backup & Restore Tools DVD, insert the DVD/CD onto which you copied the disk, and wait until the LED on the DVD/CD drive stops blinking.
   Note: If you used more that one DVD/CD to copy the disk, insert the first DVD/CD.
   The software prompts you when you need to insert the next DVD/CD.
6. Press any key to continue.
   A window appears that shows the progress of the restore process.
7. When the restore process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
8. Remove the DVD/CD from the DVD drive.
9. Restart the Magnus 800 computer.

Technical contact(s)

Content owner: Nir Peleg
See the Escalation page for escalation contacts.

Date submitted

06 Sep 2006