Product

• Kodak ThermoFlex Narrow Hybrid
• ThermoFlex Mid II Hybrid

Operating system

Microsoft Windows XP

Background

This procedure describes how to use the Backup & Restore tool to backup and restore drive C or the entire hard disk.

The ThermoFlex computer hard disk is separated into three drives:

• Drive C: Contains Windows operating system
• Drive D: Contains temporary files
• Drive E: Contains customer jobs and files

The Backup & Restore tool enables you to back up and restore drive C or to back up and restore the entire hard disk, including the customer’s jobs and files.

The Backup & Restore tool includes two backup and restore options:

• Backup and restore drive C: For example, if you backed up drive C, if Windows stops responding, you can restore the information that was on drive C.
• Backup and restore the entire hard disk: For example, if you backed up the entire disk, if the disk is damaged and you must replace it, you can restore the information from all three drives.

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

The difference between the Backup and Restore tool and the Lotem Backup & Rstore utility is that the tool creates an image DVD which contains any required licensing information and allows you to bypass the need to reinstall the license, while the utility backs up the registry, data base, and DDB factors.

Although the ThermoFlex Mid or Narrow Hybrid kit contains a DVD with an image of the Windows XP software that was created by the Symantec Norton Ghost software, the DVD does not include any updates made to the machine parameters because the DVD was created at the factory. In addition, using this disk requires you to reinstall the license.

Requirements

Backup & Restore DVD (651-00623A)
To create the diskette, download the ThermoFlex Controller Disk Backup & Restore Tool under Utilities on the Downloads page.

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 E-box DVD drive.
2. Quit the ThermoFlex Controller software and turn off the platesetter.
3. Turn on the platesetter.
4. On the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to select System Backup & Restore Tools, press 1.
5. When the prompt Are you sure? appears, press Y to confirm.
6. When the Place a DVD media in the DVD drive message appears, insert a blank DVD and wait until the LED in the DVD drive stops blinking.
   
7. When the DVD drive LED remains off, press any key to continue.
   A window appears that shows the progress of the DVD burning process.
   Wait while the C drive is backed up.
8. When the backup process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
9. Remove the DVD from the DVD drive.

To restore drive C:

1. Insert the Backup & Restore DVD into the E-box DVD drive.
2. Quit the ThermoFlex Controller software and turn off the platesetter.
3. Turn on the platesetter.
4. On the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to select restore, press 3.
5. When the following message appears, press Y to confirm.
   Warning !!!
This process will erase all data on your system partition (C).
Are you sure?
6. A message appears asking you to insert the DVD. Insert the DVD on which you copied the C drive, and wait until the LED in the DVD drive stops blinking.
7. Press any key to continue.
   A window appears that shows the progress of the restore process.
8. When the Restore process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
9. Remove the DVD from the DVD drive, and check to confirm 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 E-box DVD drive.
2. Quit the ThermoFlex Controller software and turn off the platesetter.
3. Turn on the platesetter.
4. On the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to back up the entire disk, press 2.
5. When the prompt Are you sure? appears, press Y to confirm.
   Note: If the License Agreement Warning dialog box appears, select OK.
6. When the Place a DVD media in the DVD drive message appears, insert the DVD and wait until the LED on the DVD drive stops blinking.
7. Press any key to continue.
   A window appears that shows the progress of the DVD burning process.
   Wait while the entire disk is backed up.
   Note: You may need more than one DVD to contain the copy of the entire disk. In this case, the software prompts you to insert another DVD. Make sure to number the DVDs to indicate the order in which you burn them.
8. When the backup process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
9. Remove the DVD from the DVD drive.

To restore the entire disk:

1. Insert the Backup & Restore DVD into the E-box DVD drive.
2. Quit the ThermoFlex Controller software and turn off the platesetter.
3. Turn on the platesetter.
4. In the Backup & Restore Tools screen, to select Restore, press 4.
5. When the following message appears, press Y to confirm.
   Warning !!!
This process will erase all data on your ...
Are you sure?
6. A message appears asking you to insert the DVD. Remove the Backup & Restore Tools DVD, insert the DVD onto which you copied the disk, and wait until the LED on the DVD drive stops blinking.
   Note: If you used more that one DVD to copy the disk, insert the first DVD.
   The software prompts you when you need to insert the next DVD.
7. Press any key to continue.
   A window appears that shows the progress of the restore process.
8. When the restore process was successful message appears, press any key to continue.
9. Remove the DVD from the DVD drive, and check to confirm that the entire disk is restored.

Technical contact(s)

Content owner: Viki Arviv
See the Escalation page for escalation contacts.

Date submitted

06 Sep 2006