Starting RescueBoot
This page contains quick use instructions to help you become familiar with the steps necessary for using the RescueBoot software. These instructions show you how to create and then use a RescueBoot hard disk directory and RescueBoot CD. As you read this page you can click on any of the highlighted links to jump directly to more detailed information about the steps that are outlined on this page.
After installing the RescueBoot software you will be able to start the RescueBoot software wizard by clicking on the RescueBoot icon on your computer desktop or by clicking on the "Start" button and then navigating to the RescueBoot program group and then clicking on the RescueBoot program icon. The RescueBoot software wizard will guide you in performing all of the required RescueBoot operations necessary for creating your RescueBoot hard disk directory and RescueBoot CD.
Starting RescueBoot
The first time you launch the RescueBoot wizard it will provide you with the option to "Create or update the RescueBoot directory". You will need to perform this operation to allow RescueBoot to create a bootable RescueBoot directory on your computer hard disk.
Wizard To Create RescueBoot Directory
After selecting this operation the RescueBoot software will automatically perform all of the actions necessary for selecting and copying the necessary files to your new RescueBoot hard disk directory and modifying the configuration within the RescueBoot directory to allow Windows to boot from the new location. After the RescueBoot software successfully creates your new RescueBoot hard disk directory it will inform you that the directory has been successfully created.
After successfully creating a new RescueBoot hard disk directory you should immediately restart your computer and do a test boot of Windows from your new RescueBoot hard disk directory by selecting the boot menu option to "Start Windows From Your RescueBoot Directory."
Boot Menu
The first time you start your computer from a newly created RescueBoot hard disk directory RescueBoot will initialize the newly created RescueBoot environment with the RescueBoot device drivers necessary for running Windows from a CD-ROM disc and validate that the necessary files for allowing Windows to operate have been correctly copied to the RescueBoot directory.
First Boot From RescueBoot Directory
While you are booted for the first time from a newly created RescueBoot hard disk directory you will need to validate the functionality you want to have available for use within the RescueBoot environment. Validation is simply starting the tools you would like to be able to use from within the RescueBoot environment to ensure that that work correctly and to allow the RescueBoot software to monitor the file activity and detect and copy any missing files. After you have tested the functionality of the newly created RescueBoot environment you can restart your computer and boot into your normal Windows environment.
After the RescueBoot hard disk directory has been successfully initialized and you have booted back into your normal Windows environment you can launch the RescueBoot software wizard again and you will be presented with a the new option to "Burn a RescueBoot CD with your CD burner".
Burning a RescueBoot CD
When you select this option the RescueBoot wizard will show you a list of available CD burners on your computer and allow you to select the CD burner you would like to use. After selecting a CD burner the wizard will prompt you to insert a blank or eraseable CD-RW disc and then validate the blank disc or allow you to erase a CD-RW disk that already has files on it. Next the wizard will proceed to create a bootable hard disk image file and then burn this image file onto your blank CD disc and then validate the content of the disc that was created.
Choose CD Burner
Immediately after successfully creating a RescueBoot CD you should should boot Windows from the RescueBoot CD to ensure that the RescueBoot environment on the CD will be will be fully functional when it becomes necessary for you to use it.
CD-ROM Boot Menu
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